The Duchess of York's spokesman sensationally claimed that a 'chilling' call from the sex offender financier is why she was fawning over him in leaked correspondence from 2011.

Just weeks after publicly disowning paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous and supreme friend'.

The email from the Duchess has been revealed days after both the Duke and Duchess made an appearance at the funeral of the Duchess of Kent