Prince Andrew and that photograph

Now I am not Prince Andrew's number one fan but I do hate seeing someone accused of something on the basis of very tenuous evidence-and then given a good kicking.  So far the only hard evidence against Prince Andrew is that  photograph of him with his arm round a smiling ,happy looking young girl.

But if being photographed with your arm round the waist of a young girl means you have just enjoyed a night of passion with her then I have been having a hell of a sex life over the last fifteen  odd years.  Yup even a Z list celeb like me gets asked to pose with wives and daughters by fans I meet in the street (fewer and fewer these days I admit as I get older and memories of my brief five minutes of TV fame fade) and, silly man that I am, I normally agree and end up on someones telephone with my arm round their wife/daughter/granddaughters waist.  Not only on the street either, even more damning, in the eyes of the scum press, would be  the number of such photographs which have been taken outside my house after giving them a tour of my house.

What I am saying is I can quite imagine someone saying to Prince Andrew, perhaps the girl herself or a friend/relation even, could we have a picture of you and Virginia together and he, innocently, moves close to the girl and puts his arm round her waist just as I have done time and again and she smiles at the camera and then the shutter clicks. That photograph, in short means absolutely nothing. It is not evidence of anything other than that Prince Andrew once had his photograph taken with her.