Sarah Ferguson's 'craven greed' and 'shameless grovelling' slammed for one sad reason

Sarah Ferguson's "craven greed" and "shameless grovelling" is unforgivable as it betrays many of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, it's argued today.

The Duchess of York, 65, has been dropped by seven charities after it emerged she sent an email to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein calling him a "supreme friend". Family members of Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's victims who died in April, praised the charities for cutting ties with the royal, who had publicly disowning the sex offender in the media weeks before sending the email.

Mother-of-two Sarah has faced fierce criticism amid the scandal, and has today been denounced as "naive" and "shameless" following the "rampant self-preservation".

"The deadly cocktail of her naivety and fondness for the high life has always made her something of a loose cannon. And this shameless grovelling to a deeply nasty man isn’t a forgivable human frailty; it shows craven greed and rampant self-preservation that, worst of all, betrays Epstein’s many victims," Jane Moore, journalist and panelist on Loose Women, wrote.

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In her column for The Sun, Jane aims fire at the Duchess of York despite having met and interviewed the royal several times over the years. The journalist, who last year was in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, described the betrayal of Epstein's victims as the "one sad reason" Fergie cannot be forgiven.

And the charities' decision to sever links with Fergie supports Jane's view. These include Julia's House, The Teenage Cancer Trust, Natasha Allergy Research Foundation and The British Heart Foundation.

Jane continued: "Having seen Peter Mandelson’s latest demise over an email to Epstein, how many sleepless nights has she had waiting for her smoking gun email to be released?

"Or is she just so naive that, like so much of her off-colour behaviour in the past, she thinks it can be glossed over and eventually forgiven? The seven charities (so far) to drop her clearly feel otherwise and it’s fair to say that, in the modern parlance, she’s been well and truly cancelled."

In the email, Sarah seemed to apologise to Epstein for her public criticism of him in April 2011. Part of the email read: "You have always been a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family."

And, after this emerged, photographs came to light of Sarah posing with some of Epstein's members of staff in around 2010. The images show just how close Sarah became to disgraced paedophile.

In a previous newspaper interview, Fergie apologised for accepting £15,000 from Epstein. The duchess said: "I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf. I am just so contrite I cannot say. Whenever I can, I will repay the money and have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again."