Epstein files latest: 'No woman has ever left royal family with her head,' Sarah Ferguson said in email

Prince Edward has called for people to "remember the victims" as he became the first royal to respond to the latest release of the Epstein files.

The brother of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who features in the files alongside his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, was asked about the Epstein files and how he was faring as he spoke at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on a panel entitled "Is Education Measured By Years Or Skills?"

Edward told CNN:

"Well, with the best will in the world. I'm not sure this is the audience that is probably the least interested in that. They all came here to listen to education, solving the future, but no, I think it's all really important always to remember the victims and who are the victims in all this."

Two new images of Jeffrey Epstein appear in the files.

They were released by the US justice department without context or details of where and when they were taken.

On today's episode of Politics at Sam and Anne's, the pair discuss the political reaction to the Epstein files across Westminster - and whether the saga has the potential to break British politics.

Watch an excerpt of today's episode

We've been bringing you new lines from the Epstein files as our team combs through the millions of pages.

One of the high-profile names to feature is Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York. Many emails exchanges between her and Epstein are in the tranche of documents released on Friday. 

In an earlier release before Christmas, an undated photograph showed her sitting on a sofa. The context around the picture is unclear, and she is seated next to a woman who has had her identity redacted.

'I am at your service. Just marry me.'

Emails in the new release show that on the evening of 30 January 2010, an account called "Sarah" told Epstein he was a "legend" and added: "I really don't have the words to describe, my love, gratitude for your generosity and kindness.

"I am at your service. Just marry me."

Paste BN believes the sender was the former duchess. There is no indication as to what the email was in response to, or any further context around the message.

In another email in September 2010, a user called "Ferg" - which Paste BN also believes to be Ferguson - asked Epstein when he was going to "employ" her.

A separate exchange shows Ferguson telling Epstein "the British press is ready to exterminate me" during a reported cash-for-access scandal in July 2010.

Ferguson then says "no woman has ever left the royal family with her head, and the [sic] cannot behead me, therefore they will discredit me".

Watch: Files reveal more Sarah Ferguson emails

Visit less than a week after Epstein's release

Separate emails in the files reveal Ferguson and her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, flew to Miami to visit Epstein less than a week after he was released from prison in July 2009.

Epstein had been released two days earlier, having served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for procuring for prostitution of a girl below the age of 18.

A further email from Ferguson to Epstein confirms that she arrived in Miami with her daughters. Eugenie was 19 and Beatrice was 20. Read more on this visit in our previous post.

Ferguson's charity has announced it will close "for the foreseeable future" after the fresh revelations.

In a statement in response to the Epstein files and what they reveal about her close relationship with the sex offender, Ferguson has said: "I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgement."

A series of emails in the files reveals that Sarah Ferguson and her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, flew to Miami to visit Jeffrey Epstein less than a week after he was released from prison in July 2009.

An email from an aide to Epstein on 24 July 2009 includes details about flights for "The Duchess and the girls" from Heathrow. The convicted sex offender is asked if he gives permission for the tickets to be purchased - indicating he paid for them.

Ferguson's business class ticket was $9244.16, while her daughters flew economy for $4,835.94. 

Epstein had been released from prison two days earlier, having served 13 months of an 18-month sentence for procuring for prostitution of a girl below the age of 18.

A further email from Ferguson to Epstein confirms that she arrived in Miami with her daughters. Eugenie was 19 and Beatrice was 20. 

After their arrival, Ferguson emails Epstein to ask if they are having lunch. He says they'll be having vegetable lasagna "or anything else you would like", made by a chef from Paris.

Their return flight was later confirmed in an email to Epstein from his aide.

"The Duchess' flight departs tonight at 8.05pm from JFK," they wrote.

Featuring in the Epstein files is not an indication of any wrongdoing.

In a statement in response to the Epstein files and what they reveal about her close relationship with the sex offender, Ferguson has said previously: "I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgement."

This email exchange shows Sarah Ferguson telling Jeffrey Epstein "the British press is ready to exterminate me" during a reported cash-for-access scandal in July 2010.

She calls the disgraced financier her "pillar" and says she has to return to the UK "and be exterminated and face the thunderous music".

"I am now 1,000 percent being hung out to dry, just as I predicted you will see, the Press will have me exiled," she writes.

"I am totally on my own now. This is beyond scandalous and nobody can do anything." 

Ferguson then says "no woman has ever left the royal family with her head, and the [sic] cannot behead me, therefore they will discredit me".

The exchange came in the weeks after Ferguson was reported to have agreed to accept £500,000 in return for securing access to her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was a UK trade envoy at the time.

In a statement in response to the Epstein files and what they reveal about her close relationship with the sex offender, Ferguson has said: "I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgement."

The release of millions of pages from the Epstein files hasn't hurt Donald Trump in a way many might have thought, US correspondent James Matthews says.

In the latest episode of Trump100, Matthews he's "struck" by how low the story is running in US media.

"I think the way these files were published probably has something to do with that," he explains.

Listen to the full episode at the top of the page.

This email exchange from May 2009 shows Lord Mandelson telling Jeffrey Epstein "don't go away".

The former cabinet minister told the disgraced financier "you are the only person who knows everything about me".

On his continued relationship with Epstein after his conviction in 2008, Mandelson has said previously: "I was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. 

"I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered." 

Pressure is growing on Sir Keir Starmer to strip Lord Mandelson of his peerage after revelations in the Epstein files.

Royal commentator Jennie Bond tells Mornings With Ridge and Frost the revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the Epstein files are "shocking every time".

She says there's "probably even more to come" with our team still combing through the more than three million pages.

Bond adds that Sarah Ferguson has come out "extraordinarily badly" after emails to Jeffrey Epstein were released.

"I find it impossible to defend her today, I do hesitate to criticise another woman's parenting but what mother in her right mind would take her two daughters, aged then 19 and 20, to see a convicted paedophile five days out after he came out of jail," she says.

"I think I do understand why both she and Andrew were caught up in Epstein's poisonous web, and that is because of their utter inability to think of anything other than money, their pure avarice."

This email shows Jeffrey Epstein telling Glenn and Eva Dubin about organising tea at a royal residence.

Glenn Dubin is an American hedge fund manager and is married to Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former doctor and model.

"Fergie said she could organize tea in the buckingham palace apts," Epstein wrote in the email sent on 5 July 2009.

"Or windsor castle... she said you should call her directly.

"This is separate from seeing peter at Number 10."

It's unclear whether this meeting ever happened.

Although the justice department gave no further context, Fergie likely refers to the common nickname given to Sarah Ferguson, and Peter likely refers to Lord Mandelson.

A spokesperson for the Dubins said: "Glenn and Eva Dubin are outraged by the allegations against them in the unsealed court records and categorically reject them."

On his relationship with Epstein, Mandelson has previously said: "I was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered." 

Sarah Ferguson said: "I would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children. It was a gigantic error of judgement."

Just being mentioned in these documents isn't a sign of any wrongdoing.