Princess Eugenie shares Father's Day tribute to Prince Andrew with previously unseen photo

‘Happy Father’s Day to my father and father-in-law and to all fathers celebrating today and every day,’ Eugenie writes

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Princess Eugenie has paid tribute to her father, the Duke of York, in a rare Instagram post acknowledging Father’s Day.

On Sunday, the 30-year-old Princess shared an old photograph of herself with Prince Andrew as a child.

In the snap, Eugenie is seen sitting alongside her father on some outdoor stairs, each of them drinking from a small blue cup.

The young Princess is photographed wearing a floral T-shirt and a pair of lime green shorts, while Prince Andrew wears a blue polo shirt and beige trousers.

Eugenie posted a second photograph of herself with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, and his parents, George and Nicola Brooksbank.

The Princess captioned the photo: “Happy Father’s Day to my father and father-in-law and to all fathers celebrating today and every day.”

The photograph has garnered more than 41,000 likes and thousands of comments from supportive fans.

“Lovely family,” wrote one person, while another added: “hope you all have a wonderful day”.

However, some of the comments made references to Virginia Giuffre, previously known as Virginia Roberts, the woman who claims she was forced into sex with Prince Andrew as a teenager.

Ms Giuffre, who alleged she was introduced to the Duke by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, first made the claim in US court documents in 2015.

Ms Giuffre is one of 16 women who say they were abused by Epstein, and alleges the Duke had sex with her on three separate occasions.

Prince Andrew denies the allegations against him and has insisted he has “no recollection of ever meeting this lady”.

The Duke explained his friendship with Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker who took his own life in a New York prison cell last year, during an interview on BBC’s Newsnight that was widely branded a “car crash”.

In that interview, Prince Andrew denied Ms Giuffre’s claims and said an alleged encounter with her in 2001 could not have happened as he spent the day with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, taking her to Pizza Express in Woking for a party.