London : Sarah, Duchess of York, wrote to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, calling him a “steadfast, generous and supreme friend” after claiming she had cut ties with him, according to an email obtained by newspapers.

The email, published by the Sun on Sunday and Mail on Sunday , shows the duchess contacting Epstein in 2011, after he was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution.

The duchess had given an interview in March that year, apologising for the “terrible, terrible error of judgment” in associating with him and accepting his money, promising she would have “nothing ever to do” with him again. But in April, according to the emails, she sent Epstein a message “from the truth of my heart”, saying she must “humbly apologise”.

“I know you feel hellaciously let down by

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