In a surprising turn of events, Princess Beatrice played a key role in advising her mother, Sarah Ferguson, on how to navigate a public relations mishap involving Jeffrey Epstein. Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, found herself in hot water after referring to Epstein as a “paedophile,” an action that reportedly displeased him.

In a set of newly revealed emails, Ferguson disclosed that her daughter Beatrice, who was 22 at the time, supported her decision to inform the media of Epstein’s completed sentence. Beatrice believed it was crucial to communicate that Epstein had served his time in prison for soliciting sex from minors, some as young as 14.

Epstein had been released in September 2009 after serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence, and the narrative Ferguson aimed to push was one of moving forward. During an April 2011 call with a journalist, Ferguson, with Beatrice by her side, expressed regret for labeling Epstein a sex offender, suggesting it was inappropriate given that he was “moving on with his life.”

Ferguson intended to remind the press of Epstein’s imprisonment for sexual offenses, emphasizing that he had “done his penance” and was no longer incarcerated. She highlighted her daughter’s involvement in this decision-making process, stating, “Beatrice and I had a discussion and we agreed it was important.”

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’.

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 18th birthday at Royal Lodge with Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey 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.

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

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

Epstein was said to be furious that Fergie had said he was a paedophile, which she denied to him 

Beatrice apparently helped ‘mastermind’ her father’s disastrous interview with Emily Maitlis and Newsnight at Buckingham Palace. It was claimed she attended a pre-production meeting to take notes

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.

Fergie also wrote in an email that her eldest daughter (together in 2017) witnessed her call to a journalist where she said Epstein had ‘done his penance’ in prison

However, it now seems that Beatrice, according to her mother at least, took a more active role.

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

But the latest batch of Epstein File emails show how Sarah Ferguson told Epstein in July 2011 how she had discussed how to restore his reputation with her eldest daughter.

Epstein was furious when, weeks earlier, Fergie said it had been a ‘gigantic error’ by her to let him pay her debt.

She also said she ‘abhorred paedophilia’.

But privately, her emails reveal how Fergie told Epstein she wanted to ‘find a way’ to correct her statement distancing herself from her old friend.

She then telephoned a senior journalist at the London Evening Standard to make sure he understood ‘the severity of NOT making a mistake and getting it wrong about Jeffrey’, she said.

The email, also sent to her PR advisor James Henderson, added: ‘I duly did the call’ and claimed that another aide was ‘also witness to that call as well as Beatrice’.

Fergie also vehemently denied saying Epstein was a paedophile.

‘I did NOT. I would NOT’, she wrote, adding: ‘I certainly would not want to hurt Jeffrey any more, by saying such an untruth’.

She went on: ‘I hope we can calm all this down, Jeffrey tells me he is getting death threats… and he has lost $50million through 2x $25million deals going away’.

Beatrice has not been seen in public since the new Epstein Files engulfed the former House of York – and Fergie has gone into hiding.

But Eugenie has popped up on a job in the Gulf. She is a director of art dealer Hauser & Wirth and was working at a high-end contemporary art fair in Doha also attended by David Beckham this week.

She and Beatrice are said to be ‘aghast’ at their mother’s embarrassing tranche of emails to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Sources close to the sisters also said they are ‘appalled’ and ’embarrassed’ about the photos of their father crouching over a mystery woman lying on the floor in Epstein’s New York mansion.

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

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 Jeffrey Epstein to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s intimate 50th birthday party at a royal palace just after his release from jail for child sex offences in 2009.

Eugenie is pictured with friend Caroline Daur, 30, working at an art fair in Qatar this week – the first time she has been seen in public since the latest Epstein Files

Andrew leering over an unidentified woman was released in the latest tranche of the Epstein documents that brought more shame on his family

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.

Fergie, Beatrice and Eugenie had invited him to celebrate ’50 years of Papa/Andrew’ and informed him that the dress code for the party was ‘suits and cocktail dresses’. 

Ms Ferguson promised that the exclusive reception would feature some of her own ‘mysterious mischief’.  But while Champagne was flowing for their guests, well-known teetotaler Andrew apparently stuck to the still mineral water.

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

Also on the guestlist was Naomi Campbell, Sir David Frost and Lady Frost, Kazakhstani socialite Goga Ashkenazi, It girl Caroline Stanbury, TV presenter Tania Bryer, party girl Tamara Beckwith and Catrina Skepper, the former face – and body – of Cadbury’s Flake adverts.

Paddy McNally, who dated Sarah Ferguson before she married the Prince, Heather Kerzner, then wife of wealthy hotel magnate Sol, billionaire banker Sir Evelyn Rothschild and Richard Branson ‘s children Sam and Holly, who were guests of the Princesses, also attended.

At the time the paedophile was in discussions with Andrew over clearing a $120,000 debt Fergie had built up, the Epstein Files also show. 

Epstein replied ‘not able’ to the invitation sent in Fergie’s name via Andrew’s loyal aide Amanda Thirsk.

The Duke and Duchess of York are divorced but have remained very close to their daughters. In 2010 mother and daughters organised his 50th at a royal palace and asked Epstein to attend

The Epstein Files reveal that Sarah Ferguson and her daughters sent this invite to Epstein for Andrew’s exclusive 50th bash. Fergie promised her ‘mysterious mischief’

He was released from prison in September 2009, five months before the party, and Beatrice, Eugenie and their mother were so close to him they visited him in Florida five days after his release. 

Andrew’s parents Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip organised a separate official reception for 300 guests at Buckingham Palace for her second son closer to his 50th birthday on February 19. 

Given Andrew’s father’s aversion to Sarah Ferguson, it is highly unlikely they would have attended Fergie’s St James’ Palace bash.

Epstein’s invite to a royal palace came as it was revealed Fergie owed $126,721 to her PA of 18 years so Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor went cap in hand to Jeffrey Epstein to settle the debt.

Epstein was brokering a deal with one of her most loyal aides at the time of the party.

He would decline to the St James’ Palace party, emails show, but he did go to Andrew’s 40th, which was thrown at Windsor Castle ten years earlier along with Ghislaine Maxwell.