Six companies linked to the former Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, are being wound down, documents filed with Companies House show.

Ferguson is the director of all six businesses that are due to be struck off the register in ten days - unless legal cause is shown to prevent it.

It is unclear what the firms' activities were, although one is related to public relations and another to retail. None appear to be very commercially active.

Their closure comes in the wake of further revelations from the Epstein files which suggest the ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor told the wealthy paedophile how desperate she felt over her financial difficulties.

Email exchanges between Ferguson and Epstein indicate she asked for his financial advice over how to deal with her £6m debt pile while he was still in jail for soliciting prostitution from a minor.