The Duchess of York’s chaotic offshore finances were revealed in the latest Panama Papers leak which detailed a new host of well-known faces.

Sarah Ferguson, 56, expressed confusion in 2001 over who was running her interests in the British Virgin Islands, according to letters between her solicitor and Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the scandal.

Since her divorce from Prince Andrew, the Duchess has made up to £2m a year from a variety of roles, including as an ambassador for Weight Watchers, but lost more than £3.2m in the collapse of Hartmoor, her US lifestyle and wellness company.

Essar Company Inc was managed through a trust services company in Geneva and, in September 2001, the Duchess’s solicitors, Clintons, wrote to establish how the company had been structured.