Princess Eugenie has stepped down as patron of a UK anti-slavery charity as her father, ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, continues to deal with the scandal surrounding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations that he shared confidential Government documents with Epstein, a convicted sex offender, while serving as a trade envoy. Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Mountbatten Windsor was also accused by one of Epstein's alleged victims, Virginia Guiffree, of having sex with her while she was underage and being trafficked.
According to The Guardian, his daughter, Princess Eugenie, has now stepped down as patron of Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organisation.
In a statement to the Observer, the charity said: “After seven years, our patronage from HRH Princess Eugenie of York has come to an end.
"We thank the Princess very much for her support for Anti-Slavery International. We hope that she continues to work to end slavery.”
There was no suggestion that Eugenie, her sister Princess Beatrice, or their mother, Sarah Ferguson, were involved in Epstein's alleged crimes – but their names did appear in the millions of documents relating to the financier's sex trafficking investigation.
Ferguson had been friends with Epstein and spoke with him about her daughters. Emails between the two also appear to show that Ferguson, Eugenie, and Beatrice had visited Epstein in Miami days after he was released from prison in 2009.
In his now-infamous disaster interview with the BBC in 2019, Andrew said he was with his daughters at a Pizza Express in Woking, west of London, the night he was alleged to have had sex with Guiffree.
A month before the interview came out, Eugenie announced she would become a patron of Anti-Slavery International. The organisation was founded in 1839 by Thomas Clarkson, an English abolitionist.
Eugenie started her own charity, the Anti-Slavery Collective, in 2017 with friend Julia de Boinville.
The organisation came under scrutiny by the Charity Commission after it was revealed it spent more than twice as much as other charities on salaries.
In February, Ferguson's charity, Sarah's Trust, said it would close for the foreseeable future over the ex-Dutchess' friendship with Epstein.
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