How big does a bath need to be for ‘sex frolicking’ to be a possibility? That’s not, if you’d asked anyone six months ago, the question on which the reputational future of the monarchy might be in part held to depend – and yet here we are. A bizarre photograph has been released by the brother of Ghislaine Maxwell in an attempt to discredit Virgina Roberts Guiffre’s claims of abuse.
The photograph made the front page of the Daily Telegraph, no less. It showed two people, described in the accompanying story as ‘acquaintances’ of Ghislaine Maxwell, sitting facing each-other, fully clothed, in the bathtub of Maxwell’s old home. Each of these people had their faces obscured by a sheet of A4 paper tied round their heads with a bit of string, one of them bearing an image of Prince Andrew’s face; the other of a teenage Virginia Roberts Guiffre.
One of the reasons this story was at once funny, poignant and insane is that the bathtub really did look like rather a big one
An accidental David Lynch vibe, there, and one nobody’s nightmares will thank them for. The
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