According to reports in the Daily
\nMail,<\/a> sources close to the sisters say they were unprepared for
\nthe tone and content of emails attributed to their mother, Sarah,
\nDuchess of York, in which she is said to have expressed effusive
\nwarmth towards Jeffrey Epstein years after his conviction for child
\nsex offences. The correspondence, which has circulated widely in
\nthe British press, has compounded the distress caused by newly
\nreleased photographs of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with a woman
\nlying on the floor \u2013 images that, while unexplained, have again
\nplaced the disgraced former prince under scrutiny.<\/p>\nFriends of the sisters say the disclosures have been acutely
\npersonal. Beatrice and Eugenie, both of whom have sought to build
\nadult lives at a careful distance from their father\u2019s downfall, are
\nsaid to be particularly upset by claims that they were mentioned in
\nemails exchanged between their mother and Epstein, including
\nreferences to their private lives and to a lunch with him when they
\nwere teenagers.<\/p>\n
Sarah Ferguson has long acknowledged that Epstein helped her
\nfinancially during a period of severe money troubles, a
\nrelationship that has previously attracted criticism. What has
\nshocked observers this time is the apparent intimacy of the
\nlanguage attributed to her in messages sent after Epstein\u2019s 2008
\nconviction, and the suggestion that the association continued well
\nbeyond the point at which many would have severed contact.<\/p>\n
For Beatrice and Eugenie, the sense of exposure is compounded by
\nthe renewed focus on their father. Andrew\u2019s friendship with Epstein
\nhas already cost him his public role, his military titles and his
\nstanding within the royal family. The appearance of further images
\nand documents has reopened a chapter the sisters had hoped was
\nclosed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever their parents did or didn\u2019t do, the girls are now old
\nenough to feel the full force of the embarrassment,\u201d said one
\nsource familiar with their thinking. \u201cThey are trying to live
\nresponsible, private lives, and this drags them straight back into
\nsomething they had no control over.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fallout has not been confined to the York household.
\nAccording to people close to the royal family, there was an
\nawareness at senior levels that further damaging material was
\nlikely to emerge, helping to explain the hardening of attitudes
\ntowards Andrew and Sarah in recent months. Decisions that once
\nappeared severe now look, to some, like an attempt to draw a firm
\nline.<\/p>\n
No suggestion of wrongdoing has been made against Beatrice or
\nEugenie, and neither has commented publicly. Yet the episode
\nunderlines a recurring truth about royal scandal: its consequences
\nare rarely limited to those directly responsible.<\/p>\n
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