Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are said to be standing by their mother despite the catastrophic damage her emails to Jeffrey Epstein have caused them.
The sisters have not given up on their father either and are staying ‘loyal to their parents in private while separating themselves in public’, a royal source has said.
‘The Yorks are just about holding it together as a family but this has put new strains on their relationships’, the insider added.
‘The last I heard the daughters were still supporting both parents behind the scenes’.
The sisters are said to be ‘aghast’ and ’embarrassed’ by what the Epstein Files have revealed about their parents’ relationship with such an ‘appalling’ man.
But the Daily Mail’s royal insider said they love their parents, leaving them in a terrible ‘bind’ because Andrew and Fergie have dragged them into Epstein’s world and ‘contaminated’ their own brands.
‘Eugenie, for example, is co-founder of The Anti-Slavery Collective, a charity that campaigns to end modern slavery, which includes sex trafficking. How can she do that without saying anything about Epstein, Virginia Giuffre, and this new case of a woman who claims she was trafficked to have sex with Andrew?’, the source said.
Sarah Ferguson told Jeffrey Epstein she wanted to marry him and took her children to meet him in the US just days after his release from jail for soliciting children for sex, documents published in the US revealed this week.
Fergie, who also discussed her daughters’ love and sex lives with her ‘pillar’ of strength Epstein over email, has not been seen in public since the scandal broke.
As removal trucks still roll into Royal Lodge, the insider said they they had heard that Fergie was still there as recently as a week ago. On Tuesday Andrew was told to leave his 30-bedroom mansion earlier than expected after he was spotted goofing in public.
‘The King wasn’t happy about his brother being photographed laughing and waving at the public in Windsor while there were news stories emerging every few hours about Epstein sending women to Andrew and Fergie fawning on a paedophile’, the insider said.
Andrew is already in Sandringham, while Fergie has gone into hiding and is rumoured to be jetting abroad.
The Duke and Duchess of York are divorced but have remained very close to their daughters. While the latest Epstein scandal has put more pressure on their relationship, the Princesses are said to remain supportive as they can be to their parents in private, especially their mother
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is seen smiling and waving to passers by as he drives on The Long Walk in Windsor on Monday. Just hours later he was booted out of Royal Lodge
Sarah Ferguson, pictured with a mystery woman in the Epstein Files, has seen her reputation further shredded
Another removal van arrived at Royal Lodge as the former Yorks move out
The insider added: ‘Beatrice and Eugenie are in a bind.
‘I think they should say something but I doubt they will because of their need to stay loyal to their parents in private while separating themselves in public’.
The King insists they’ve done nothing wrong but, inevitably, their personal ‘brands’ have been contaminated by the actions of their parents.
Fergie is said to want to stay in the Windsor area and won’t move to Sandringham with her ex-husband Andrew.
‘I know she was looking at a few options and hoped to stay in the Windsor area but this forced move has come sooner than expected’.
Fergie has nowhere to go – but it has long been rumoured her daughters have offered her a place to stay abroad in the shape of Eugenie’s Portuguese villa.
Beatrice has a granny annex at her Cotswolds home.
A visit to her sister in Australia could also be on the cards.
But Ms Ferguson will need something permanent.
The source said: ‘Fergie did sell her Belgravia mews house for £3.85 million in August so in theory has that money to use for somewhere else to live. But that house was bought as an investment for Beatrice and Eugenie.
‘The late Queen gave Fergie money for her granddaughters as part of the divorce settlement. I don’t know for sure but I think that may be what was used to buy that house’.
Sarah Ferguson’s contact with Epstein has shredded was left of her reputation.
She even sent a flirty email to him describing a ‘single’ female friend with ‘a great body’ he should get to know after he was convicted of child sex crimes.
The former Duchess of York also suggested in a personal email to the paedophile that he could marry her and they could take on the mystery woman as a member of their staff.
Documents released in the Epstein Files also show that he was asked to pay almost $15,000 for flights for Fergie, Beatrice and Eugenie to fly to the US to visit him just 48 hours after his release from prison.
Ms Ferguson would be happy to fly from Heathrow to the US in business class but her daughters would be in economy, the email sent on July 24, 2009 said.
Fergie told the sex offender he should marry her on a number of occasions in the months after he left jail following a 13-month sentence for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14.
In one email from September 17, 2009, she wrote about one woman: ‘You can marry her too. She is single and [sic] a great body’. She added: ‘Ok well marry me and then we will employ her’.
The new emails also shed new light on a lunch that Fergie had with Epstein and her two daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie after his time behind bars.
On July 24, 2009, two days after her boss left prison, Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff emailed him asking him to approve payment for the Yorks’ travel costs.
She wrote: ‘Regarding the flights for The Duchess and the girls from Heathrow to Miami and from NY to Heathrow: we are able to get the girls on economy round trip and The Duchess in business round trip. The girls flights total are $4835.94 and The Duchess’ flights total $9244.16. Do I have your permission to purchase these tickets!?’.
It is not known what Epstein replied or if he paid the bill – but Sarah and her daughters did make the trip to America.
Sarah Ferguson, pictured in the Epstein files with a mystery female, told the paedophile financier about a woman he knew who was single and had a great body
Fergie again said Epstein should marry her but he did not respond
The email from September 2009 from Ms Ferguson to Jeffrey Epstein describes the woman with a ‘great body’ before suggesting they marry
On July 24, 2009, two days after her boss left prison, Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff emailed him asking him to approve payment for the Yorks’ travel costs
The Daily Mail revealed today how Fergie sent an email to Jeffrey Epstein claiming that ‘no woman has ever left the Royal family with her head’ and that she was being ‘1000 per cent hung out to dry’ after appearing to accept cash for access to her ex-husband.
The former Duchess of York said in July 2010 that she was ‘totally on my own now’ and was about to be ‘exterminated’ in the UK due to a series of personal scandals.
The Palace couldn’t ‘behead’ her so ‘will discredit me – totally to obliteration’, she said in a nod to the executions of Henry VIII’s wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Ms Ferguson had written to the paedophile financier in the weeks after she was caught in a tabloid sting appearing to accept $500,000 in return for her securing access to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, then a UK trade envoy.
She then agreed to an interview with Oprah Winfrey where she spoke about how she was facing bankruptcy and could not pay the rent so had taken a room in her ex-husband’s Royal Lodge home.
In an attack on the royals as her reputation was in tatters and she ran out of money, Fergie thanked her friend Epstein for being her ‘pillar’ in an email released in the Epstein Files.
She added: ‘Just as I always said, no woman has ever left the Royal Family with her head, and the [sic] cannot behead me, therefore they will discredit me. Totally to obliteration. I have no words.’
Fergie praised Epstein, pictured kissing a woman in the Epstein Files, as her ‘pillar’
The email where Fergie told Esptein that she was being ‘hung out to dry’
Fergie was in the midst of the cash for access scandal. In 2010 she was caught in a tabloid sting appearing to accept $500,000 in return for her securing access to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, together last year, then a UK trade envoy
In her first email she told Epstein on July 13, 2010: ‘Have you died on me? Don’t… Please you are my pillar.’
The email chain reveals how Epstein ignored the flattery and said: ‘I thought you needed a place for the second week?’.
The paedophile appears to have repeatedly organised accommodation for Fergie in the US, according to the Epstein Files.
She replied: ‘Dear Jeffrey, yes I did need a second place for a week?’
She went on: ‘And I thank you so much, but just as I predicted many, many months ago, the British press is ready to exterminate me, and it seems that PricewaterhouseCoopers and the palace system are not equipped to deal with all of this huge wave of negativity.
‘Therefore I have to return to the UK, and be exterminated and face the thunderous music.
‘I am now 1000 per cent being hung out to dry, just as I predicted you will see, the Press will have me exiled. I am totally on my own now.
‘This is beyond scandalous and nobody can do anything. I cannot believe what this is all coming to.
‘I have to return to face my judge and jury and be hung yet again.’
At the time PwC were auditing her accounts.
It later emerged that Epstein had paid off some of her debts – but she later called it a ‘gigantic error’.
The Daily Mail revealed how Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are ‘aghast’ at their mother’s embarrassing tranche of emails to Jeffrey Epstein.
Sources close to the sisters say they are also ‘appalled’ and ’embarrassed’ about the new photos of their father Andrew crouching over a mystery woman lying on the floor.
The then Prince Andrew towering over a mystery woman on the floor in a photo released by the US Justice Department. His daughters are said to be hugely embarrassed
The siblings have been left ashamed by their mother’s sycophantic emails to the paedophile financier after his conviction for child sex crimes.
Sarah Ferguson fawned over Epstein, who famously paid some of her debts, telling the convicted sex offender he was a ‘legend’ and joked that they should get married.
Other emails she sent him mentioned her daughter Eugenie’s sex life and revealed Fergie had taken her children to lunch with the convicted paedophile when they were teenagers.
The Daily Mail has also today unearthed an email from Ms Ferguson that suggests Epstein had a secret child. The former Duchess of York also accused him of abandoning her in 2011 and said it was ‘crystal clear’ he was only her friend to get close to her ex-husband Andrew.
Security sources told The Mail on Sunday that Epstein was running ‘the world’s largest honeytrap operation’ on behalf of the KGB.
A source close to Eugenie and Beatrice told the Daily Mail: ‘They are aghast at what they have read. They are mortified by the emails their mother has sent to Epstein. It is so embarrassing for them.’
They added: ‘We don’t believe the girls [Beatrice and Eugenie] were told much about what has just emerged [in the latest Epstein files release], and they will simply be aghast at just how close their parents were to this appalling man.’
