Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were taken to visit Jeffrey Epstein by their mother, Sarah Ferguson, just days after his release from jail.
Epstein, who died in 2019, served less than a year in prison in 2009 for soliciting a child for prostitution. He was released under house arrest and, soon afterwards, he was visited by Ferguson who brought her two daughters with her.
At the time of the visit, Princess Beatrice was 20 and Princess Eugenie was 19 years old.
The trip is revealed in the documents linked to Epstein that were released over the weekend. Among them is an email from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, his former partner who is currently in prison for sex trafficking.
The email reads ”Ferg and the two girls come yesterday”. It is dated July 28 2009.
Earlier documents linked to Epstein indicated that the visit had taken places. Material first revealed in October 2025 included a letter sent to lawyer, Paul Tweedy, in April 2011 in which Epstein referred to Ferguson, saying ”she was the first to celebrate my release with her two daughters in tow”. That letter followed Ferguson not defending Epstein publicly. She apologised to him, as evidenced in other material already released.
The latest documents show several references to Ferguson as well as to her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was also seen in images released at the same time. In one set, he is kneeling over a woman who is lying on the floor.
Sarah Ferguson has long acknowledged that Epstein helped her financially during a period of severe money troubles, a relationship that has previously attracted criticism. However, these latest documents show a level of friendship after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, and the suggestion that the association continued well beyond the point at which many would have severed contact.
No suggestion of wrongdoing has been made against Beatrice or Eugenie, and neither has commented publicly.
A source had told the Daily Mail, that the sisters say they were unprepared for the tone and content of emails attributed to their mother.
Both princesses were seen to be distancing themselves from their parents at Christmas when they spent the holidays with the Royal Family at Sandringham, walking with King Charles and Queen Camilla to church on Christmas morning.
They decided to pass the festive season with their royal relatives weeks after their parents lost their titles. King Charles stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his HRH and title of Prince by issuing Letters Patent. The King also asked the Lord Chancellor to remove the titles of Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh from the Roll of Peerage. Sarah Ferguson also lost her courtesy title of Duchess of York.
After the latest revelations about their friendships with Jeffrey Epstein, which also saw an email shared in which Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor invited him to Buckingham Palace, the Prime Minister said that the former prince should testify in the US if called upon to do so.
It was a rare public intervention by the PM into matters affecting the wider royal circle. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor remains eighth in line to the throne and is, technically, a Counsellor of State despite now being a private citizen with no royal title.
