Newly released files reveal that the Duke of York sent Christmas cards featuring photographs of his young daughters to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 and 2012, despite claiming he had severed all contact after 2010. The cards included images of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, then aged 23 and 21, and were signed with a message wishing Epstein joy and happiness.
The 2011 card, sent months after Epstein's release from prison, featured three photographs of the princesses with their father. A cartoon on the card showed Andrew walking in snow with four dogs holding the Royal Standard. The 2012 card included pictures of Beatrice climbing Mont Blanc and Eugenie participating in a charity bike ride, as well as Andrew abseiling down the Shard and Sarah Ferguson walking across a frozen Canadian lake.
In his 2019 Newsnight interview, Andrew insisted he had 'never had any contact with him from that day forward' after meeting Epstein in New York in 2010 to end their friendship. The files also include a 2015 email in which Epstein failed to correct a journalist who stated as fact that Andrew had consensual sex with Virginia Giuffre.
Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with Ms Giuffre in 2022 for an estimated £12 million. Ms Giuffre died in April 2025, and her memoir was published posthumously in October 2025. The revelations have prompted renewed scrutiny of Andrew's relationship with Epstein and his denial of any wrongdoing.
