Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and former wife of Prince Andrew, has come under scrutiny this week after an email that saw her praising paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was unearthed. The Duchess’s spokesperson said that Ferguson had received a ‘chilling’ phone call from the criminal after she gave an interview in 2011 confessing to have made a ‘terrible, terrible error of judgement’ in accepting £15,000 from Epstein and insisting: ‘I abhor paedophilia.’ After the phone conversation, Ferguson emailed Epstein to say she ‘humbly apologised’ for criticising him publicly and described the convicted child sex abuser as a ‘steadfast, generous and supreme friend’. Good heavens…
In light of that correspondence with Epstein, the Duchess was dropped as a patron by a number of charities – including a