Beloved Royal Duchess Dropped By Charities After Epstein Email Emerges

New emails have been unearthed between Jeffrey Epstein and the Duchess of York, including one where she praised him as a “supreme friend,” leading several charities to sever ties with the Royal Family member on Monday.

The familial statement, made back in 2011, appeared to come from the duchess as she apologized to the notorious pedophile for distancing herself from him following his arrest in 2007 on underage prostitution charges. In response, some of Great Britain’s leading charities for women and children announced they were dropping her as a patron.

Among them was Julia’s House, which serves families with children in need in Dorset and Wiltshire and was the first to announce that Sarah Ferguson would no longer be raising funds for its cause. Ferguson is the former wife of Prince Andrew.

Later on Monday, Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, the Children’s Literacy Charity, and Prevent Breast Cancer all announced that the Duchess of York would be dropped.

A spokesperson for the duchess said she had no comment in response to the news, the BBC reported.

The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation and the Children’s Literacy Charity both stated that it would be “inappropriate” for Ferguson to continue representing them in light of her questionable support for Epstein, given her knowledge of his arrest and conviction.

Teenage Cancer Trust, another charity where the duchess has been a patron for over 35 years, said it was reviewing the situation.

Decisions by the four charities followed the publication of a 2011 email in which Ferguson apologizes to Epstein for publicly distancing herself from him, writing, “You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family.”

Earlier that year, Ferguson had given an interview in which she called her past association with Epstein a “gigantic error of judgment” and stated that “what he did was wrong and for which he was rightly jailed.”

A spokesman for Ferguson initially claimed that the controversial email was sent as a strategy to keep Epstein from suing the family for defamation.

“This email was sent in the context of advice the duchess was given to try to assuage Epstein and his threats,” they said.

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has also seen his star power diminished due to his past association with Epstein, who died in 2019. Andrew has been named on flight logs to Epstein’s notorious compound, and the late victim Virginia Giuffre maintained that she was abused by him.

He stepped down from his patronages and was removed as a working royal in 2019 amid the fervor against Epstein following his second arrest that year.