In a surprising revelation from the Epstein Files, it has been uncovered that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sent a Christmas card to Jeffrey Epstein, filled with images of his young daughters, a year after he claimed to have severed ties with the convicted sex offender.

The Duke of York personally signed the card, extending wishes for “much joy and happiness” to Epstein, who had recently been released from prison, despite Andrew’s previous assertions of having no further contact with him.

The card, which included three photographs of his daughters—two with their father and one of them together—was sent when Princess Beatrice was 23 and Princess Eugenie was 21 years old.

Additionally, the card featured a cartoon illustration depicting what appears to be the former prince walking in the snow with four dogs, approaching a snowman holding the British Royal Standard.

Sent on December 21, 2011, this card contradicts Andrew’s earlier statement that he had cut off all communication with Epstein after they were seen together in Central Park on December 5, 2010.

In a 2019 interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight, Andrew firmly stated, “To this day, I never had any contact with him from that day forward,” a claim now called into question by this new evidence.

One royal insider told the Daily Mail that the cosy Christmas card to Epstein further torches Andrew’s claims that he broke off all contact with him. 

‘What was Andrew thinking? It doesn’t look great sending photos of your daughters to a convicted sex offender,’ they said.

The source added that the Epstein Files have revealed just how entwined the Yorks were with Epstein, even after he was jailed for child prostitution offences – and Andrew’s cosy Christmas cards beggars belief.

‘We now know Fergie had taken Beatrice and Eugenie to see Epstein only a few days after he was released from jail,’ they added.

The hand signed Christmas card from Andrew to Epstein with pictures of his daughters, sent a full year after he said he cut off contact with the paedophile

The greeting dated December 21, 2011, contained more pictures of Beatrice and Eugenie, as well as Andrew in a canoe and Royal Lodge in the snow

The Christmas card was sent from Andrew’s official ‘HRH The Duke of York’ – and included a picture of Beatrice and Eugenie posing together in the snow.

Princess Beatrice is pictured wearing a silver Christmas cracker hat and ear muffs, while Princess Eugenie is wrapped up in a fur hat and brown scarf.

The greeting card also included a photograph of a snow-covered Royal Lodge – the former family home in Windsor – and what appears to be Andrew in a canoe.

The card states: ‘Wishing you much joy and happiness at this time and for the year ahead,’ and is signed by Andrew.

But despite Andrew’s protestations on Newsnight in 2019, he sent another Christmas card, this time on December 20, 2012, again with more pictures of his children.

He included images of the princesses on a charity bike ride and mountain climbing.

Princess Beatrice is seen posing with one hand on her hip while going up Mont Blanc in February 2012, while her sister is seen taking part in a Night Rider event in London, atop a bike and wearing high-vis and a helmet. 

There were also images of Andrew abseiling down The Shard, and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, 66, walking across Great Slave Lake in Canada.

Andrew also shared a photograph of Princess Beatrice posing with one hand on her hip while climbing Mont Blanc

Andrew sent paedophile Epstein this photograph of Princess Eugenie taking part in a charity bike ride in London in June 2012

A greeting card sent to Epstein by Andrew in 2012 featured photographs of his children Beatrice and Eugenie – two years after he said he’d cut all ties with him

Beatrice and her younger sister Eugenie are said to be ‘appalled’ and ’embarrassed’ by their parents’ long friendship with Epstein. 

The so-called Epstein Files have revealed just how often their parents brought them into the paedophile’s social orbit.

Fergie took Beatrice and Eugenie as teenagers to meet Epstein days after he was released from jail for child prostitution offences in 2009.

Other emails released by the US Justice Department suggest they were also regularly called upon by him to entertain his contacts and give tours of Buckingham Palace. 

In one, Epstein reassured a friend due to cross paths with Beatrice: ‘She likes me its ok [sic].’

Emails from Fergie to Epstein even talked about her youngest daughter’s sex life, declaring in one that Eugenie had been away on a ‘sh*gging weekend’ when she was 19.

The Epstein Files show that Fergie and her daughters invited Epstein to Andrew’s intimate 50th birthday party at a royal palace just after his release from jail for child sex offences in 2009.

Andrew also hosted Epstein, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein, at Royal Lodge for Beatrice’s 18th birthday in 2006, after a warrant was out for the paedophile financier’s arrest. 

The former Duchess of York and her two daughters asked the convicted sex offender to bring his ‘presents, presence and your humour’ to the private event for family and friends in London. They invited him to celebrate ’50 years of Papa/Andrew’ and informed him that the dress code for the party was ‘suits and cocktail dresses’. 

Fergie promised that the exclusive reception would feature some of her own ‘mysterious mischief’. 

The party was held on February 26, 2010, at St James’s Palace and the former Duchess of York and her daughter had spent months organising it.

Princess Beatrice also helped advise Fergie on how to publicly backtrack when she upset Epstein by calling him a paedophile, her mother said in one email over a year later.

Fergie claimed her eldest daughter, then 22, agreed with her that it was ‘important’ to brief the press that Epstein had ‘done his penance’ in prison for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14. 

The former duchess said Beatrice was present when she called a journalist in April 2011 to say it was ‘wrong’ to call Epstein a sex offender because he was now ‘moving on with his life’, newly unearthed emails show. 

He was released from Palm Beach County Penitentiary in September 2009 after serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence. 

She said she planned to tell the press: ‘He [Epstein] was sent to prison for sexual offending but that he had done his penance and was out of jail.’

And revealing her daughter’s support she said: ‘Beatrice and I had a discussion and we agreed it was important.’

Sarah Ferguson claimed that her daughter Princess Beatrice (pictured together at the polo in 2006) had discussed how to publicly backtrack on calling Jeffrey Epstein a paedophile

The Daily Mail has also found an email from Epstein in 2015 where he told a friend not to worry about meeting Beatrice at an event in Mexico because she ‘liked’ him. The paedophile famously attended her lavish Victorian-themed 18th birthday masked ball at Royal Lodge with Maxwell and Weinstein in 2006.

Beatrice’s support for her mother almost 15 years ago came as the former Duchess of York tried to save her friendship with Epstein and was beset with financial problems. Epstein would try to broker a deal to help her stave off bankruptcy.

Eight years later, Beatrice played a key role in facilitating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s catastrophic 2019 interview with BBC Newsnight.

As well as attending a pre-production meeting with producer Sam McAlister, with a notebook and pen, Beatrice famously became Andrew’s ‘alibi’ during the interview when he claimed he was collecting her from a party at Pizza Express on the night he supposedly had sex with Virginia Giuffre.

All this came after Fergie took Beatrice and her younger sister Eugenie to visit Epstein in Florida as teenagers, days after his release from prison in 2009 – with the girls appearing to be bystanders caught up in their parents’ relationship with the late paedophile.