A childhood visit to Paedo Island and how the man they knew as 'nice' Jeffrey has blighted the lives of Beatrice and Eugenie too

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15138537/A-childhood-visit-Paedo-Island-man-knew-nice-Jeffrey-blighted-lives-Beatrice-Eugenie-too.html

That sunny day in the Bahamas – April 16, 1998 – came smack bang in the middle of their Ascot prep school's Easter holidays. A note made in the flight log for billionaire Epstein's private jet recorded their brief meeting in Nassau simply as 'Princess Sarah Ferguson and kids'.

According to Epstein's former housekeeper, the two young princesses, then just nine and eight, and their mother were later guests on his private Caribbean island, Little St James, a paradisaical bolthole also dubbed 'Paedo Island' on account of the debauched sex parties and orgies held there and often attended by underage teenage girls.

The two young princesses can have had no idea at the time of its hidden horrors, nor the devastating impact that the evil US financier – 'nice Jeffrey' as they knew him – would one day have on their family.

Their father's ill-fated dealings with Epstein – culminating in allegations made in 2014 by the late Virginia Giuffre that she had sex with Prince Andrew as a 17-year-old after being trafficked by the financier and his lover Ghislaine Maxwell – have led Beatrice and Eugenie, publicly at least, to distance themselves from him in recent years. 

Inevitably, they have fallen back on their close bond with their mother, and even taken to calling themselves 'The Tripod' because of their unbreakable three-way relationship.

Now that tripod is looking distinctly wobbly, because it's the duchess's turn to face up to the consequences of her own friendship with the businessman, who apparently committed suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

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