A leading royal expert has blasted Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie for famously meeting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with their mother, Sarah Ferguson, following his release from jail for child sex offences. Despite there being no suggestion of wrongdoing on the sisters’ part, the commentator has made it clear that the pair should have known better, as “they were adults”.
The sisters – who were 21 and 19 years old when they met Epstein in Florida – have been lying low since the controversial details of their parents’ past associations with the paedophile emerged, and since their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested last month under suspicion of misconduct in public office.
The Princesses are mentioned in the latest tranche of Epstein files along with their parents; however, being mentioned does not indicate wrongdoing.
Speaking about the alleged Palm Beach lunch, royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams tells the Daily Express that the sisters “were adults and must have known a good deal.”
Royal author Alexander Larman, meanwhile, believes it all boils down to money, as it usually does with the York family. He said: “A vast amount depends on whether they received money from Epstein or not. We know that he met them, and that they had tea with him, but as yet there are no financial disclosures about them benefiting from such an association.
“If that does come out – and the Epstein m.o was certainly to splash the cash – that it will be ruinous.”
The latest documents from the US Department of Justice shared that Epstein emailed Gislaine Maxwell to tell her, “ferg and the two girls come yesterday”.
The day before, an email showed Sarah had emailed Epstein herself, writing: “What address shall we come to. It will be myself, Beatrice and Eugenie. Are we having lunch?” Emails then reportedly show that the group met at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, where he served vegetable lasagne prepared by a Parisian chef.
Just a few months later, in October 2009, Epstein told British lawyer Paul Tweed via email on April 7, 2011, about Sarah’s failure to defend him publicly following his conviction.
According to the Mail on Sunday, he said: “She was the first to celebrate my release with her two daughters in tow. She visited me with [a] policeman sitting at my front desk. She has asked for help with her charities”.
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