The Epstein files show just how far Beatrice and Eugenie are involved in their parents’ revolting world. Here is why I don’t feel sorry for them. This is the one thing they need to do NOW to rid themselves of the stench: AMANDA PLATELL

Following the latest dump of information from the Epstein files, we know that the former Prince Andrew agreed to a hook-up with a Russian girl procured by the paedophile and that the Prince invited Epstein to dinner at Buckingham Palace after his release from prison.

We even know that in 2010 Fergie was joking with him in an email about their daughter Eugenie’s sex life – ‘Just waiting for Eugenie to come back from a sha**ing weekend!!’ she wrote to Epstein.

Not only that but Fergie also begged the convicted sex offender for £20,000 to pay rent, described him as the ‘brother I have always wished for’ – and wrote to him in one fawning email: ‘Xx I am at your service. Just marry me.’

After all this, not to mention a picture of Andrew on all fours kneeling over a young woman who’s lying prostrate on the floor, how can Beatrice and Eugenie ever speak to their parents again?

Surely they have no option but to cut them off – not just temporarily but for good – and to do so publicly. If not for their own sakes, for those of their children.

It is a desperately hard call. But when your parents have so disgraced themselves and in doing so jeopardised the future of the monarchy, this is surely no time for sentiment.

Eugenie has reportedly already severed relations with her father. But if she and Beatrice want to salvage and protect their own reputations – and their children’s futures – they must both now do what any child would consider unthinkable. Publicly, they must disown Andrew and Fergie for ever and declare openly that they are on the side of Epstein’s many young victims.

For the sad truth is that the princesses are becoming badly tarnished by the scandal, despite being completely innocent. Not just because of the toxic nature of the York name after Andrew’s sordid associations with Epstein. But also because Fergie introduced them to Epstein on a number of occasions.

It is well documented that she and the princesses were among the first to meet Epstein in his multi-million-pound New York home after his release from prison for abusing and trafficking girls, some of them younger at the time than Beatrice and Eugenie themselves.

We now know all about Andrew’s continued association with Epstein after his conviction but Fergie was just as bad. And by endorsing Epstein with her daughters in tow, she brought them into disrepute.

That is why the princesses, still hanging on to their HRH titles after their parents were stripped of theirs, have to act. God knows I can’t imagine anything worse than having to cut both your parents adrift. But to my mind a public declaration of their doing so is the only way they can salvage their credibility and, in doing so, go some way to helping restore the reputation of the monarchy that has been so blackened by their parents.

In this #MeToo world, the stench of any association with a convicted paedophile, however innocent Beatrice and Eugenie might be, will linger for a very long time.

And yet so far there remains silence from the two princesses. Have we heard any word of apology for the alleged wrongdoings of their father? Or their mother?

The kindest thing we can say about the princesses is that they may have been existing unwittingly in a sort of splendid isolation, unaware of the gravity of their situation. Despite their parents divorcing in 1996 when Beatrice was eight and Eugenie six, they all continued to play happy families, living together in the palatial 30-room Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, almost rent-free and with live-in servants.

Fergie even boasted on American TV that they were the perfect model for co-parents, the ‘happiest divorced couple in the world’ enjoying family harmony under one roof.

But this was a concocted veneer for what was really going on – Andrew still besties with Epstein and allegedly hooking up with a Russian woman and very young girls for ‘massages’, Fergie begging for and accepting money from her ‘supreme friend’ Epstein.

It must be the most terrible realisation for the princesses to have to finally face up to the fact that their parents are one of the most venal and revolting couples in royal history.

But that is their situation. And they can only start to make amends by accepting it publicly, by disavowing Mum and Dad, offering to give up their HRH titles – and retiring for the foreseeable future from public life.