Epstein claimed he bankrolled the Duchess of York for 15 years.

 

Sarah Ferguson

I find it quite extraordinary that any British charity would have wanted their name associated with the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.

The royal biographer, Andrew Lownie, claims that the paedophile financier, Jeffrey Epstein, gave Fergie around £2 million. Epstein claimed the Duchess of York and her two daughters, met with him in New York, to celebrate his release from prison after being jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor.  A source close to Fergie, insisted that neither she or her daughters, "had any recollection of such a visit."

Unearthed emails show that in January 2020, Fergie wrote to Epstein saying: "Is there any chance I could borrow 50 or 100,000 U S. dollars to help get through the small bills that are pushing me over. Had to ask " In another email, on July 10, 2010, Fergie wrote to Epstein, "My friend, am I allowed to visit Little St Jeff's? Or is it unavailable to bankrupts." Epstein responded by saying, "I'll meet you there. Call me", and gave his mobile number.

I remember when Fergie was caught out in a sting operation by the News of the World trying to sell access to Prince Andrew to a fake sheikh for £500,000. She told the fake sheikh she could "open any door you want. Look after me and he'll look after you... you'll get it back tenfold." When she got bubbled, she apologised and called it a "serious lapse in judgement." Prince Andrew denied any knowledge about the arrangement.

I think the English radical, Tom Paine, put it better when he wrote: "I have an aversion to monarchy, as being too debasing to the dignity of man." "The time is not very far distant when England will laugh at itself for sending to Holland, Hanover, Zell, or Brunswick, for men, at the expense of a million a year, who understood neither her laws, her language, nor her interests, and whose capacities would scarcely have fitted them for the office of a parish constable."