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Fergie with youngest daughter Princess Eugenie at Windsor Castle last year (Image: WireImage)

Sarah Ferguson made a crude comment about her youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, documents released as part of the Epstein files show.

Pictures of an email exchange between Fergie and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein were released as part of more than three million documents published by the US Department of Justice in recent days relating to the disgraced financier.

Among them are exchanges with someone referred to just as “Sarah”, whose email address is redacted, as well as discussions with others about “Fergie”. In one email from March 2010, Esptein appears to ask Fergie about a possible trip to New York by writing: “ny?”.

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Fergie at Royal Ascot last year (Image: UK Press via Getty Images)

And in reply, Fergie writes: “Not sure yet. Just waiting for Eugenie to come back from a sh*****g weekend.” The email was sent around the time of Eugenie’s 20th birthday, which she spent with then boyfriend, now husband, Jack Brooksbank. Other newly released emails also showed Fergie gushing over Epstein after he complimented her in front of Eugenie and her older daughter, Princess Beatrice.

In a message sent on August 3, 2009, Fergie described Epstein as the “brother I have always wished for” and even called the criminal a “legend”, in a later email. Appearing in the Epstein files does not indicate guilt or wrongdoing.

In the email, Fergie wrote: “In just week, after your lunch, it seems the energy has lifted. I have never been more touched by a friends kindness than your compliment to me in front of my girls. Thank you Jeffrey for being the brother I have always wished for.”

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The pair were pictured multuple times in greeting cards sent to Epstein(Image: DoJ)

Emails, previously released to the public, showed the ex-Duchess calling Epstein her “supreme friend” on April 26, 2011. This came just weeks after she told reporters she would “never have anything to do with” the sex offender again.

Her spokesperson, last year, claimed Fergie said this “in the context of advice the duchess was given to try to assuage Epstein and his threats” because Epstein allegedly threatened to sue her.

Meanwhile, the vast tranche of files also included photos of Beatrice and Eugenie, seemingly sent to Epstein by their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

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Beatrice was seen wrapped in a harness while climbing Mont Blanc(Image: DoJ)

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Eugenie was seen participating in a nighttime bike ride for charity(Image: DoJ)

The disgraced former prince’s two daughters were pictured in intimate family snaps sent to the convicted child sex trafficker when they were in their early 20s. Eugenie was 21 and 22, and her sister 23 and 24 when the snaps were sent in festive emails between 2011 and 2012, the documents show, after the financier’s conviction for procuring a child for prostitution in 2008.

The first photo, showing the two sisters posing together in the snow – with Eugenie wrapped in fur and a brown scarf and Beatrice wearing earmuffs and a silver Christmas cracker hat – was sent on December 21, 2011 via an email from Andrew’s “HRH The Duke of York” account as part of a greeting card. More snaps were included in a second greeting card sent in 2012, with Beatrice and Eugenie featuring as two of four inserts on a card, with the remaining two showing Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

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Beatrice is pictured climbing Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, and Eugenie can be seen participating in a charity bike ride in her “Night Rider” photo taken in London. All of the events took place the year the card was sent, with Andrew’s picture showing him abseiling the Shard, while Ms Ferguson’s captures her trip to the frozen over Great Slave Lake in Canada.

The card comes with a Christmas message seemingly signed by Andrew, which states: “Wishing you much joy and happiness at this time and for the year ahead.”

Andrew has always strongly denied any wrongdoing. Beatrice and Eugenie have sought to distance themselves from their parents as they’re swept up in the roiling scandal.