Sarah Ferguson 'took Beatrice and Eugenie' to visit Epstein five days after he was freed from sex crime sentence
The princesses, then aged 19 and 20, allegedly joined their mother in meeting the paedophile days after his release from a Florida jail
Sarah Ferguson took her daughters Beatrice and Eugenie to visit Jeffrey Epstein just five days after he was released from prison, new emails suggest.
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The former Duchess of York allegedly went to see the disgraced paedophile alongside princesses Beatrice, then 20, and Eugenie, then 19, in July 2009.
The visit is said to have come less than a week after Epstein was released from prison in Florida, after he served 12 months for soliciting a child for prostitution and was under house arrest.
The meeting came to light in a released email sent by Epstein in July 2009 to his then partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year jail term for sex trafficking.
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In the email, Epstein wrote: "ferg and the two girls come [sic] yesterday."
The day before, Ms Ferguson allegedly emailed Epstein to arrange the visit, asking: "What address shall we come to. It will be myself, Beatrice and Eugenie. Are we having lunch?"
Documents claim the group met at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, where the paedophile served vegetable lasagne prepared by a Parisian chef.
The meeting was then alluded to again by Epstein in the files over two years later, when he wrote to British lawyer Paul Tweed to complain about Ms Ferguson's failure to defend him publicly following his conviction.
He wrote: "She was the first to celebrate my release with her two daughters in tow. She visited me with [a] policeman sitting at my front desk. She has asked for help with her charities," the Mail on Sunday reports.
It was also earlier revealed that Ms Ferguson offered her "love, friendship and congratulations" to Epstein after he was released from prison in 2011 - and congratulated him on the birth of a "baby boy."
She said she had heard the news from "The Duke," believed to be a reference to her disgraced ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The bombshell revelation comes days after more than three million files, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images relating to Epstein, were released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
The latest revelations come after Ferguson's titles were removed last year after her links to Epstein were exposed, allegedly calling the paedophile a "supreme friend."
Ms Ferguson and her former husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were friends with Epstein for more than a decade and in a separate email sent in 2010, she told the late financier: "Just marry me."
Passing on well wishes in regards to the birth of a baby boy, Ms Ferguson said: "Even though you never kept in touch, I am still here with love, friendship and congratulations on your baby boy. Sarah xx."