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Jilly_in_VA

(14,624 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:56 PM Sep 2025

Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, dropped from multiple charities over Epstein email

Six charities have dropped the Duchess of York as a patron or ambassador after an email from 2011 emerged in which she called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein her "supreme friend" and seemed to apologise for her public criticism of him.

Julia's House, a children's hospice charity, was the first to remove Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, saying it was "inappropriate" for her to continue in the role.

Later on Monday, the Teenage Cancer Trust, Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, the Children's Literacy Charity and Prevent Breast Cancer also announced they had dropped the duchess as patron.

The British Heart Foundation also said she would no longer be the charity's ambassador.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddmr6v0jpzo

Somebody doing something, anyway!

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TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
8. Did she just dump Andrew to spare the kids and her book & charity empire when just as guilty?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:00 PM
Sep 2025

Submariner

(13,437 posts)
7. Wimmens have nuttin' to worry about
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:59 PM
Sep 2025

from AI:

At a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 30, 2024, former President Donald Trump stated that he would "protect" women "whether the women like it or not". He made the comments while recounting a conversation with his campaign aides.

Feel safe now?

Grins

(9,520 posts)
11. Fourteen YEARS ago she wrote that??? C'mon.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:19 PM
Sep 2025

How many people were duped by Epstein? Sarah is just another one of them. Being associated with Andrew has made her a victim, too.

rubbersole

(11,277 posts)
13. She was probably glad Prince Andrew was keeping his creepy hands off of her.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:38 PM
Sep 2025

There's no way she wasn't aware of Epstine's pedophile network.

Wiz Imp

(10,405 posts)
14. Huh? She wrote that AFTER Epstein was already a convicted sex offender
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:02 PM
Sep 2025

She wasn't duped. She knew her "supreme" friend was a convicted sex offender and she was perfectly fine with that.

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