Sarah ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, the beleaguered Duchess of York, has finally met her reputational Waterloo. Despite showily cutting off all contact with the paedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction and imprisonment for sex offences, it has emerged that she sent Epstein a toadying email in 2011 calling him a ‘steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family’. She insisted in the leaked message that she had not called him a paedophile (ironic, really, because he very much was). Fergie has now been dropped by several of the charities where she was a patron.

It is arguable how much value the duchess really offered to the children’s hospice Julia’s House or the food charity the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, even when she was in greater favour, given that she

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