Prince Andrew, Duke of York, named in underage 'sex slave' lawsuit

[dessiato]

Anyone who thinks that isn't enough space for a nookie has led a very sheltered life and not had to do it on the backseat of their Mum's VW beetle

Or a mini on the front seat

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyone who thinks that isn't enough space for a nookie has led a very sheltered life and not had to do it on the backseat of their Mum's VW beetle

Necessity is the mother of invention

 

[Tanya1982]

A whole new magazine genre is born. Which ones are possible in a bath?

 

[bellaozzydog]

You’ve got Petronella Wyatt and Ghislaine Maxwell both pushing the idea that the photo is a fake, along with Andrew of course, yet none can point to the source images that it has been doctored from.

The Honourable Petronella "Petsy" Aspasia Wyatt……claim to fame rode Boris’s Johnson

And a convicted sex trafficker

What a cheerleading team, who needs enemies with friends like that

 

[prunus]

This is pretty insane even for the Daily Telegraph.

Fucks sake.

 

[Pickman's model]

The photo was taken in 2021. It's now 2023. It's really weird.

 

[bimble]

i just saw that daily telegraph front page, in the flesh, in an actual shop, and i still cant believe its real.

 

[two sheds]

Up there with "Freddie Star ate my hamster" or Daily Express obsessions I'd say

 

[Magnus McGinty]

If advertising itself was the intention it seems to have worked.

 

[danny la rouge]

no, they are reporting that Maxwell's family is claiming that... which is a bit different. still weird it is a front page though.

Yes, they are reporting that, but the headline suggests they agree.

 

[Tanya1982]

The bit of the article that you can see in that picture says that him kissing her toes isn't possible, which is... an odd thing to say.

Very odd. I think this bath might be even shorter than the one pictured…

 

[Rob Ray]

Genuinely amazed that got through editorial with no-one saying "you realise we'll be an absolute laughing stock right?"

 

[Pickman's model]

Genuinely amazed that got through editorial with no-one saying "you realise we'll be an absolute laughing stock right?"

It'll be remembered for longer than eg the sun's gotcha front page, as an example of what not to do

 

[Rob Ray]

Even on a little paper you generally have 5-6 separate sets of eyeballs on the front - the person who writes it, news desk editor, sub-editor, second read, editor and the person doing final send. Stuff does still creep in on last-minute changes or when deadline's very tight on a short-handed day (eg. the infamous Star headline of "Aleppo Liberated," which was a copy-paste error right at deadline by someone who actually thought Assad was a pos).

But this isn't a breaking news piece being shoved in last minute, it's a proper full-length article with two bylines, one being the chief reporter himself! I'd imagine upwards of a dozen people passed that particular stool, including most of the senior day staff. Absolutely mind-boggling.

 

[Pickman's model]

Even on a little paper you generally have 5-6 separate sets of eyeballs on the front - the person who writes it, news desk editor, sub-editor, second read, editor and the person doing final send. Stuff does still creep in on last-minute changes or when deadline's very tight on a short-handed day (eg. the infamous Star headline of "Aleppo Liberated," which was a copy-paste error right at deadline by someone who actually thought Assad was a pos).

But this isn't a breaking news piece being shoved in last minute, it's a proper full-length article with two bylines, one being the chief reporter himself! I'd imagine upwards of a dozen people passed that particular stool, including most of the senior day staff. Absolutely mind-boggling.

Groupthink. Or might have descended from the owner

 

[JimW]

Very odd. I think this bath might be even shorter than the one pictured…

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Think they add egg white to the bubble bath for shots like this?

 

[Rob Ray]

Owner diktat seems very plausible, though generally when reporters are being asked to do something stupid they quietly get their byline removed - in this case Robert Mendick would have had to specifically get his added.

 

[Pickman's model]

Owner diktat seems very plausible, though generally when reporters are being asked to do something stupid they quietly get their byline removed - in this case Robert Mendick would have had to specifically get his added.

There are a lot of stupid journalists

 

[rutabowa]

I think that they’re positioning themselves with a bit more than neutrality towards that claim!

I dunno, based on the screengrab they dont give an opinion, and clearly the overall impact is for anyone looking at it to see it as a ridiculous alibi that does more harm than good. I dont really buy that noone at the paper realised that.... but anyway the effect is the same either way

 

[rutabowa]

If advertising itself was the intention it seems to have worked.

maybe a bit of this.

 

[two sheds]

If being an object of ridicule itself was the intention that seems to have worked to.

 

[kabbes]

I dunno, based on the screengrab they dont give an opinion, and clearly the overall impact is for anyone looking at it to see it as a ridiculous alibi that does more harm than good. I dont really buy that noone at the paper realised that.... but anyway the effect is the same either way

You mean the screenshot that has the massive headline of “The photo that clears Duke over bath sex”?

Oh, I’m sorry. That should be “The photo that ‘clears Duke’ over bath sex”. Yes, that makes all the difference. No positioning in that headline at all…

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Anyone reckon that this was the ‘big revelation’ that was going to clear his name?

 

[pesh]

Bath nonce.

 

[rutabowa]

You mean the screenshot that has the massive headline of “The photo that clears Duke over bath sex”?

Oh, I’m sorry. That should be “The photo that ‘clears Duke’ over bath sex”. Yes, that makes all the difference. No positioning in that headline at all…

do you think the article was seriously intended to benefit his case then? I just cant see it.

 

[danny la rouge]

You mean the screenshot that has the massive headline of “The photo that clears Duke over bath sex”?

Oh, I’m sorry. That should be “The photo that ‘clears Duke’ over bath sex”. Yes, that makes all the difference. No positioning in that headline at all…

Absolutely. And what Rob Ray has said.

And the apparent fact that this was seemingly going to be part of convicted pedo sex trafficker Maxwell’s defence but wasn’t used.

 

[danny la rouge]

do you think the article was seriously intended to benefit his case then? I just cant see it.

Read the headline again.

 

[Rob Ray]

do you think the article was seriously intended to benefit his case then? I just cant see it.

It doesn't help his case, but this is the Daily Telegraph, which has been team Andrew for ages because the Barclay brothers are proper swivel-eyed loon royalists. It's 100% intended to try and rehabilitate him.

The only other alternative would be that the rest of the family leaned on the Telegraph to deliberately embarrass itself with a bait splash to de-rail Andrew's efforts to rehabilitate himself, which'd be fun, but not terribly plausible.

 

[LDC]

This is pretty insane even for the Daily Telegraph.

OMG, at no point did any of them involved think, "Hang on, is this a good idea?"

 

[maomao]

The fact that they think it's proof suggests to me that the likes of royalty and The Maxwells usually have big baths for screwing in and hadn't thought that commoners could do it in their little baths.

I have a big teardrop shaped bath that would be quite good for fucking in if I could afford to fill it up.