Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor appears to have his head near one woman’s lap as he poses reclined on his side

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor appears to be pictured reclining across the legs of five people with his head near a woman’s lap in the latest document dump related to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In the undated image, which is a photograph of a picture in a photo frame, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell appears to peer down and smile at the former duke, who is smiling with his eyes closed.

A trove of documents, including court records, footage and images, was uploaded on Friday night to the US justice department website, which held users in a queue as it experienced an “extremely high volume of search requests”.

The data release came after the US deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, said “several hundred thousand” documents from the so-called “Epstein files” would be released before a legal deadline.