In general, I have avoided commenting on the contents of the Epstein files, as I prefer not to wallow in slime. My main area of concern with the files is the blatant, illegal cover-ups being revealed at the highest levels of government and private industry as more files become available.

But I was recently touched by the story of the two adult daughters of former Prince Andrew, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, and the implications of the ongoing revelations for the families of those individuals who ultimately will prove to have been complicit in Epstein’s heinous activities.

Indications are that they believed — or wanted desperately to believe — their father when he denied the extent of his relationship with Epstein and his cohort, Ghislaine Maxwell. Now, with references in the files to their mother, Sarah Ferguson, and to their parents’ having mentioned the daughters’ names countless times in communications with Epstein, they can only feel betrayed.

As stated by Russell Myers, the royal editor of Britain’s The Mirror newspaper:

“It’s incredibly distressing for both young women to see themselves mentioned so freely by their parents to a convicted sex offender.” [Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, February 16, 2026.]

The files even indicate that Ferguson took her daughters to visit Epstein just days after his release from prison in 2009. Aged 19 and 21 at the time, they were likely told they were simply visiting a friend of their parents. According to royal author Robert Jobson:

“They are pretty torn because they believed [their father]. Just like the late Queen and Charles, Andrew told them all the same story — that he had done nothing wrong. My understanding is they feel pretty duped by the whole thing.” [Simon Perry, People.com, February 5, 2026.]

And it doesn’t end with the royal family. Each and every one of the sick individuals who participated in Epstein and Maxwell’s degenerate circle of hell, or knew what was going on and chose to enable it by keeping silent, has someone — a spouse, children, parents, siblings, close friends — who will be similarly affected by the fallout.

But I suppose it would be too much to hope that anyone who could treat innocent children as pieces of meat — no more than flesh-and-blood objects of their perverted desires — might at any time have given a single thought to their own families. That would be attributing to them a modicum of decency they obviously do not possess.

For the guilty ones — when they are finally identified, tried and convicted — there is no punishment severe enough.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/17/26