Realizing it was “not a good look” to be seen playing golf at a luxury resort in southern Spain, Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson have returned home to the United Kingdom to “face the music” over the growing scandal over his friendship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The Daily Mail reported that the Duke and Duchess of York traveled back Wednesday on a private jet from the Sotogrande resort where they have been in seclusion the past two weeks. Their return came just a day before newly surfaced photos emerged in a British tabloid, showing Andrew socializing with Epstein and Donald Trump at the future president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida in 2000.

Picture of fhe Prince, the Paedophile and the President requires public answers from the British royal https://t.co/2ElD8Oleud — Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) August 30, 2019

With the men in the photos are future First Lady Melania Trump and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been accused of recruiting and grooming underaged girls to have sex with Epstein.

The recently deceased Epstein had an estate near Mar-a-Lago and was known to be a regular visitor to Trump’s resort in the 1990s and early 2000s, according to various media reports at the time. In 2002, Trump famously told New York magazine that Epstein was “terrific,” adding that he “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

At some point the former reality TV star and Epstein had a falling out — reportedly over a business deal —and Epstein was banned from the resort.

Scrutiny over Andrew’s friendship with Epstein has grown since the multimillionaire’s died August 10 in a Manhattan jail, where he was awaiting trial on new sex trafficking charges. The medical examiner has determined the death was a suicide.

On Tuesday, one of Epstein’s alleged “sex slaves,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre, stood outside a Manhattan courthouse and told the world media that Andrew, the eighth in line to the British throne, should “come clean” about his alleged role in the trafficking — specifically how, she claims, Epstein and Maxwell forced her to have sex with the royal when she was 17.

Giuffre also has claimed she was working as a Mar-a-Lago spa attendant at age 16 when Maxwell recruited her to give massages to Epstein.

#JeffreyEpstein survivor Virginia Giuffre, who delivered a profound statement in court this morning, said Price Andrew, Duke of York “knows exactly what he’s done” and implored him to come clean about his role in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. pic.twitter.com/QPmQyPYiy5 — Molly Crane-Newman (@molcranenewman) August 27, 2019

Prince Andrew accuser urges him to 'come clean' as he 'knows what he's done'https://t.co/mXXjtanewp pic.twitter.com/m9y6InuyQn — Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) August 27, 2019

On Wednesday, Andrew and Ferguson flew to England so that the duke could meet with royal advisors to figure out how to address the scandal and “salvage his reputation,” The Sun reported, citing a royal source.

“He knows he has to come back and face the music,” the source told The Sun. “The optics were not a good look, with so many stories about the Epstein accusers while he was on a sunny golf course in Spain.”

Even before Epstein’s death, Andrew had tried to downplay his association with him, and he has repeatedly denied knowing anything about the financier’s interactions with underaged girls. Such denials have come, despite the fact that Andrew apparently continued their friendship at least through 2010 — after Epstein was first investigated for sex trafficking, pleaded guilty in 2007 to soliciting a minor for sex and served 13 months in county jail.

Andrew has also denied having sex with Giuffre. The Sacramento-born Giuffre, now 36 and living in Australia, has claimed in an interview and in a 2015 lawsuit that she was directed by Epstein and Maxwell to have sex with Andrew three times in 2001.

But Andrew’s denials have done nothing to stop the ongoing revelations about his trips with Epstein and his visits to the financier’s multiple residences.

That includes Andrew’s 2000 visit to Epstein’s Palm Beach home when Epstein took him along to a tennis tournament at Trump’s nearby Mar-a-Lago resort and his reported six-day stay at the financier’s Manhattan mansion in December 2010 when a literary agent spotted him getting foot massages from two well-dressed young Russian women.

In an attempt to deal with the crisis, Andrew has apparently resorted to having friends speak on his behalf by contacting the tabloids and giving anonymous interviews. However, the friends’ statements have generated embarrassing headlines, which in turn have brought more scrutiny.

Last week, a “long-term pal” thought it would be useful to acknowledge to The Sun that “sex is a big thing” for Andrew and that the duke has had “more than 1,000 lovers” over the course of his lifetime. The friend also used this admission to insist that Andrew is “not into young girls.”

“He was known as Randy Andy for a reason when he was younger and it’s never really stopped,” the friend told The Sun. “Traveling all over the world as the UK trade ambassador and for other royal duties has given him access to some beautiful women and he’s taken full advantage.”

“He is a red-blooded male and, if you like, he is like a sailor with a girl in every port,” the friend continued.

This week, friends gave interviews to two British newspapers, claiming that Giuffre must have faked her now-infamous 2001 photo with Andrew because his fingers are “much chubbier” in real life.

These supporters suggested that the photo showing the Duke of York with his arm around a teenage Giuffre’s bare waist must be a product of digital trickery, the Telegraph and Evening Standard reported. Giuffre has claimed that the photo was taken at Maxwell’s London home, right before she said she took a bath with Andrew and had sex with him.

“The picture is a fake, and the girl’s story is a fantasy,” a source close to the duke told the Telegraph.

But the friends’ argument for why the photo must be fake brought more laughable headlines. The friend said that Andrew’s fingers in the photo “appear quite slender, like a girl’s fingers.”

The friend then said, “His real fingers are actually much chubbier – quite small and chubby.”

The photo was first published in the Daily Mail in 2011 when the tabloid reported Giuffre’s detailed account of her time as Epstein’s “sex slave” and her alleged encounters with Andrew. The photo also turned up in the hundreds of pages of documents related to Giuffre’s lawsuit that were recently unsealed by the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.