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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping

Sarah Ferguson apologised to Jeffrey Epstein after disowning him, leaked emails suggest

Sarah Ferguson attends the funeral of the Duchess of Kent.
The remarks came amid criticism over the links the Duchess of York and Prince Andrew had to Epstein. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

The Duchess of York “humbly” apologised to her “dear friend” Jeffrey Epstein a month after publicly disowning the convicted sex offender, according to leaked emails.

Sarah Ferguson told the disgraced late financier that she never called him a paedophile in an earlier newspaper interview, and suggested that she had disavowed him to protect her career as a children’s book author and philanthropist, according to emails obtained by the Mail on Sunday (MoS).

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