Andrew wished Epstein 'joy' in Christmas card with Beatrice and Eugenie photos a year after claiming he'd cut off contact
The hand-signed note wished the convicted paedophile “much joy and happiness at this time and for the year ahead”.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sent a Christmas card with pictures of his young daughters to Jeffrey Epstein a year after he claimed all contact with him had been cut off, the Epstein Files show.
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The note, hand-signed ‘'HRH The Duke of York”, wished the convicted paedophile “much joy and happiness at this time and for the year ahead”.
The card, sent in 2011 a few months after Epstein was released from prison, contained three photos of his daughters, when Beatrice was 23 and Eugenie was 21.
They appear with their father in two pictures, and one where they are together. In one image, the sisters are seen posing next to each other in the snow. In the image, Beatrice is wearing a silver Christmas cracker hat and ear muffs, and Eugenie is donning a fur hat and brown scarf.
“Wishing you much joy and happiness at this time and for the year ahead,” the card reads.
A cartoon of what seems to be the former prince walking in the snow with four dogs towards a snowman holding the British Royal Standard is also included.
Andrew sent another card the following year in 2012, also including pictures of his princess daughters on a charity bike ride and mountain climbing.
His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson is also included in an image of her walking across Great Slave Lake in Canada.
The card appears to go against Andrew’s claim he cut off all contact with disgraced financier Epstein after the pair were pictured meeting in Central Park, on December 5, 2010.
“To this day, I never had any contact with him from that day forward,” Andrew told journalist Emily Maitlis in 2019.
It comes as another email unearthed from the Epstein Files has suggested Andrew “had consensual sex” with Virginia Giuffre.
The email exchange first emerged in December 2025, however, names were blanked out.
The unredacted version naming Virginia Roberts, referred to as VR, has now been found in the latest tranche of 3 million Epstein Files just released by the US Department of Justice.
Epstein did not deny the claim in an email exchange in January 2015 between the paedophile financier and a journalist who stated it as fact.
Andrew has vehemently denied having sex with Ms Giuffre. He paid her $12m to settle her sexual assault lawsuit in 2022.
In a December 2014 Florida court filing, Ms Giuffre described being trafficked to Andrew for sex by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at least three times in 2001 when she was 17.
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are said to be staying "loyal to their parents in private" despite the ever-growing list of damaging revelations about their relationship with Epstein.
The sisters are planning to "separate themselves in public" from the pair but are "holding it together as a family" behind closed doors, a royal source claimed.
This suggested solidarity comes after the latest Epstein file release unearthed several damning documents about the former Yorks, including one that showed Ferguson took her children to meet the paedophile days after his release from jail.
Their father was also pictured crouching over an unidentified woman lying on the floor. Despite being "aghast" and "embarrassed" by the documents, Beatrice and Eugenie are "standing by their mother" and have not given up on their father, the source told the Daily Mail.
Documents released by the Department of Justice also showed Ferguson had told Epstein she wanted to marry him, and also discussed her daughters' love and sex lives with her 'pillar' of strength, Epstein, over email.
LBC exclusively revealed today that the Metropolitan Police is looking into claims that close protection officers assigned to Andrew ‘wilfully turned a blind eye’ during visits to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
LBC has spoken to a former senior Met protection officer who claims certain members of the Royalty and Special Protection Command (RaSP) became “too close” to the Royal Family and “may have withheld information” from the force about what happened on Little Saint James island, which was owned by Epstein, in the US Virgin Islands.
Several women have claimed they were abused by Epstein when they were teenagers on Little Saint James, known to locals as "paedophile island”.
Andrew, who has always denied any wrongdoing, was stripped of his Royal title last year after the posthumous publication of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, in which she claimed she had sex with Andrew on Epstein’s private island.