“No longer am I the Duchess of Pork!” joked Sarah Ferguson on QVC, the US home shopping channel, as she hawked her new range of $59.97 juicers that she said had helped her lose almost four stone.

It was January 2015 and Ferguson was making her latest desperate bid for money in America, a country that has long viewed her more charitably than the UK.

But even on the media tour for the Fusion Xcelerator blender, she couldn’t dodge questions about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein , a friend of many years. New Feature

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Weeks earlier, Prince Andrew had been mentioned in US court filings about Epstein from his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, and Ferguson defended her ex-husband while appearing on NBC’s breakfast TV show, Today .

The then Duchess

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