Prince Andrew’s embattled ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, has claimed she only secretly groveled to “supreme friend” Jeffrey Epstein in a newly leaked email because he’d vowed to destroy her in a “Hannibal Lecter-style” call.

The Duchess of York’s excuse came after she was dropped by a slew of charities for the emails that showed her kissing up to the now-deceased pedophile weeks after she’d publicly vowed to disown him.

Her rep told the Telegraph on Tuesday that the gushing note was only penned to protect her and her Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the daughters she shares with disgraced Epstein pal Andrew. 6

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“It was a chilling call,” said her rep, James Henderson, leaving him “surprised anybody was ever friends with him given the way he talked to me.”

“He said he would destroy the

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