The latest release also included pictures featuring what appears to be Andrew on his hands and knees, leaning over a woman on the floor (whose identity is concealed) – in a state, some would argue is similar to the position of his reputation.

You would think it couldn’t get any worse from there, but then lo and behold, Sunday rolled in with yet more scandal unearthed from the ever-damning Epstein files.

Perhaps the most humiliating revelation is Andrew knowingly or unknowingly dragging his daughters, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice into the latest scandal by sending a series of snaps of his innocent daughters to Jeffrey Epstein.

The King’s brother, 65, sent snaps to Epstein, when Eugenie and Beatrice were in their 20s, which was after the disgraced financier’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

The intimate family snaps were sent up to two years after the former prince previously claimed to have cut off all contact with the paedophile.

It seemed Andrew was trying to portray a doting father figure, which contrasted to the secret life he and his ex-wife lived behind closed doors as they rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful.

According to reports, one photo of his daughters was sent from his “HRH The Duke of York” email address on December 21, 2011, in what appears to be a greeting card.

The pair are pictured together in the snow with Princess Beatrice donning a silver Christmas cracker hat while Eugenie is wearing wrapped up in a brown scarf and a fur hat. The card, signed by Andrew, reads: “Wishing you much joy and happiness at this time and for the year ahead.”

Another card was sent on December 20, 2012, again with pictures of Beatrice and Eugenie. The former prince has always vigorously denied any wrongdoing relating to his relationship with Epstein, who reportedly killed himself in jail in 2019.

It must be especially complicated for Princesses Eugenie and Princess Beatrice to spend time with their father now, in a way that doesn’t fit neatly into headlines or public outrage.

Beatrice was spotted only recently with her daughter Sienna, horse riding in the grounds of Windsor Castle, and catching up with her father, before he moves miles away from his granddaughter to live on the Sandringham Estate, in a house privately funded for by the King.

But any appearance with the disgraced prince now carries a heavy symbolic weight.

The recent images seen in the latest files, sent by Andrew, see the sisters dragged into the latest twist in the scandal, which has engulfed their parents for months, seeing them stripped of privileges, titles and finally evicted from their mansion, the Royal Lodge in Windsor.

In more shocking revelations, it’s also been revealed a shameless Sarah Ferguson dragged her youngest daughter into an exchange with Epstein, stating she was waiting for her daughter “to come back from a sh***ing weekend”.

The extraordinary exchange was sent on March 21, 2010, just two days before Eugenie’s 20th birthday.

Epstein asked the former Duchess of York, “NY?”, in an apparent reference to an upcoming New York trip and she embarrassingly replied, “Not sure yet. Just waiting for Eugenie to come back from a sh***ing weekend!!'”

After Epstein’s criminal behaviour became public knowledge, the friendship between them took on a darker cast. Actions that may once have been dismissed as extreme poor judgment or social miscalculation have been reinterpreted through a more troubling lens with each revelation.

When the disgraced financier was convicted of child sex offences in 2008, the released files indicate that many high-profile figures, including the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and Sarah Ferguson continued after this point.

Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on new child abuse charges. His accomplice, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, is now serving a 20-year sentence in the US for child sex trafficking.