Several charities on Monday severed their links with Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, after reports emerged that she had described the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a “supreme friend" in an email.

Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to a state prostitution charge in Florida.

The Guardian reported that Ferguson’s apology to Epstein followed an interview published in the Evening Standard in March 2011 in which she said that she had made a “terrible, terrible error of judgment" in accepting £15,000 from the financier, a convicted sex offender, to pay off her debts, adding: “I abhor paedophilia."

According to the Sun, Ferguson, ex-wife of King Charles’ brother, Prince Andrew, had sent the apology message to Epstein in 2011, weeks after giving an interview in which she said s

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