More charities cut ties with Sarah Ferguson over message to Jeffrey Epstein

Children’s hospice, allergy charity and Prevent Breast Cancer among those to distance themselves after duchess called Epstein a ‘supreme friend’

Multiple charities have severed ties with Sarah, Duchess of York, after it emerged she had described the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as a “supreme friend”.

A spokesperson for the duchess has previously said the comments were made in a letter of apology to Epstein that was written in 2011 to head off threats of legal action after she had linked him to paedophilia in a newspaper interview.