Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson was removed from the charity by Epstein e-mail

The Duchess of York was removed as the owner of a charity for children, following an emerging email in which she called the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein her “supreme friend”.

Julia’s house, a children’s charity for children serving families in Dorset and Wiltshire, has kidnapped Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, from her role as a boss.

“Following the information shared this weekend on the correspondence of the Duchess of York with Jeffrey Epstein, the house of Julia made the decision that it would be inappropriate for her to continue as a patron of the charity,” said a spokesperson for the charity.

“We advised the Duchess of York for this decision and thank her for her past support.”

A Duchess spokesperson said that she was not starting the decision of the charity.

The end of the charitable organization of her links with the Duchess follows the publication of an e-mail of Elle in Epstein in 2011, which seems to have been sent after being publicly broken in contact with him.

E-mail seemed to apologize for its public rejection of Epstein, saying: “You have always been a constant, generous and supreme friend for me and my family.”

It seemed to contradict her previous public denunciation of Epstein in an interview in 2011, in which she had said that her involvement with him had been a “gigantic error of judgment” and that: “what he had done was bad and for which he was rightly imprisoned”.

A spokesman for the Duchess said that her subsequent e-mail in Epstein, describing him as a friend, had been sent because she was trying to counter a threat from him to pursue her for defamation-and that she always really regretted any association with him.

“This email was sent in the context of the councils that the duchess was given to try to mitigate Epstein and his threats,” said a spokesperson’s statement on weekends, when Epstein’s email was published.

The Duchess became boss of the charity in 2018 and had visited one of her hospices, even if it now seems to have been withdrawn from the website, no longer appearing alongside other customers, including football manager Eddie Howe, actor Nigel Havers and designer Jasper Conran.