Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s wife Sarah Ferguson made lewd comments about their daughter Princess Eugenie in an email to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released millions of files related to a criminal investigation into a deceased child sex offender.
In one email, Mr. Ferguson (formerly Sarah, Duchess of York) said she was contacted by Mr. Epstein in March 2010, two years after he was found guilty of procuring children for prostitution and soliciting prostitutes.
“New York?” Epstein wrote to the mother-of-two, to which she replied: “I don’t know yet. I’m just waiting for Eugenie to get home from a bad weekend!!” (Shagging is British slang for sexual intercourse.)
Eugenie, now 35, was about to turn 20 in two days when the emails were exchanged between her mother and Mr. Epstein. According to the Mirror, the princess celebrated her big day with her then-boyfriend Jack Brooksbank. (Eugenie and Brooksbank married in 2018.)
Mr Ferguson also has a daughter, Princess Beatrice, 37, with Mr Andrew, 65, who was stripped of his royal titles in October last year over his links to pedophile Mr Epstein.
“His Majesty has today begun formal proceedings to strip Prince Andrew of his style, title and honors,” Buckingham Palace told Page Six in a statement at the time.
“His tenancy agreement at Royal Lodge has so far provided him with legal protection to continue to reside. A formal notice to abandon the tenancy has now been served and he will move to alternative private accommodation.”
The statement continued: “These charges are considered necessary despite the fact that he continues to deny the charges against him.
“Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathy are and remain for victims and survivors of all forms of abuse.”
Andrew was accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Giuffre, who recently died by suicide.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ferguson also faced repercussions from his association with Mr. Epstein.
In September last year, children’s hospice charity Julia’s House cut ties with the British author after an email in which she apologized to a child rapist was leaked.
The Daily Mail said at the time that Mr Ferguson had contacted him to “humbly apologize” for calling his friendship with Mr Epstein a “serious error of judgment” in an interview with the Evening Standard in April 2011.
“I know that what you have been told and read has made you feel deeply disappointed in me,” she said in a letter to Epstein.
Mr. Ferguson later called the convicted sex offender “steadfast, generous and a great friend.”
