Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is facing a fresh storm of public and professional backlash after seven charities abruptly severed ties with her in the wake of bombshell revelations about her private correspondence with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Julia’s House Children’s Hospice led the charge, declaring it would be “inappropriate” for the Duchess to continue as patron after the Mail on Sunday published an explosive 2011 email in which the Duchess apologised to Epstein for disavowing him publicly.

The charity confirmed it had informed the Duchess of its decision and scrubbed her name from its website within hours.

Other organisations quickly followed.

The Teenage Cancer Trust, which Ms Ferguson had supported since its first unit opened in 1990, announced she wa

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