Prince Andrew biographer tears into Sarah Ferguson with dire warning over Epstein email

A royal biographer has shared his scathing thoughts on Sarah Ferguson's email to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein - and he's not held back.

Earlier this week, an email sent from the Duchess of York to the disgraced financier in 2011 resurfaced and it's sparked a fresh scandal for Fergie.

The letter, which was sent to the peadophile after he was released from prison for child sex offences, shows Fergie calling Epstein a "supreme friend" and issuing a grovelling apology for public comments she made weeks earlier about cutting ties with him.

While a spokesperson for the duchess has said the email was sent by Sarah at the time as she feared being sued by Epstein, the resurfaced email has caused a storm for the duchess, who has been dropped by seven charities as their patron.

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Now, Andrew Lownie, who recently penned a biography which made shocking claims about Fergie and Prince Andrew's life behind closed doors, has told the Express that it seems the duchess is playing "the victim", and he is "struggling" to feel sorry for her given the circumstances.

"I'm afraid, having studied her for so long, I don't have a great deal of sympathy for her. She'll pick herself up," he said. "She's the Becky Sharp of the Royal Family, so I have no doubt she will be networking. She will be talking to people."

Lownie then went on to claim: "She has no self-awareness. She has no acceptance of what she's done, the same problem as Andrew. But she'll just pick herself up, and that's what people admire, and she'll get on with it again somehow. We probably haven't had the end of Fergie, but we deserve to."

When quizzed on whether Fergie can make a return to public life and her charity work after such a scandal, Lownie suggested the Duchess would be "huddled with PR people" to start attempting to rebuild her image.

He also said that given Sarah is no stranger to a public scandal, it is quite likely she will recover from the Epstein email in the eyes of the public.

"I would say like [Peter] Mandelson, no one expected him to come back on those two occasions and he did. He didn't last very long, and the two are not dissimilar; she'll go on Oprah, she'll do a mea culpa," Andrew said.

"Lots of naïve Americans will think poor thing, she's a victim, which she's very good at playing and the King will forgive her, and I suppose everything in the caravan will move on."