Posted by Martha on October 14, 2009, 12:21 pm, in reply to "Re: Duchess in debt? Fergie forced to cancel elaborate 50th birthday bash after bankruptcy fears"
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: She had her heart set on a bash of royal
: proportions, but Duchess of York, Sarah
: Ferguson has been forced to cancel her 50th
: birthday party for 300 guests amid fears she
: is facing bankruptcy.
: She had planned the celebration at Royal
: Lodge, the Windsor residence of Queen
: Elizabeth the Queen Mother until her death
: there in 2002.
:
: Instead, just a dozen close friends and
: family will join Sarah Ferguson for the
: celebrations tomorrow.
:
: Her former husband Prince Andrew, 49,
: daughters Beatrice, 21, and Eugenie, 19, and
: Fergie�s on-off boyfriend Geir Frantzen, 42,
: will be among the guests.
:
: No mention of the bikini run.
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: She can borrow Beatrice's bikini. A run on
: the beach won't cost anything. Or was this
: going to be a vacation to somewhere exotic
: because a domestic beach just won't do?
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: She was suposed to run on an Australian
: beach.
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Well la-de-da. That's a very ambitious plan she had. To get back her pre-baby body and run on an Australian beach. It occurs to me that as she watches her daughters come into womanhood and she firmly enters middle age, Fergie might be trying to recreate her own younger years when she was the feisty redhead who captured a prince's heart. She is hitting a milestone without a man in her life to give her assurance that she'll be cared for in her old age. Fergie never was responsible with money, and now she apparently has run up debts she either cannot pay or that would deplete her accounts to settle.
Her own business ventures haven't been as successful as she hoped and she doesn't have another 30 years to earn her retirement fund. I think her mistake was that she spent like a success before she was a success. Being well known and having notoriety does not always lead to a substantial income. There is no marketability in being an ex-princess with a weight problem. There seems to be a bit of bad advice mixed in with self-delusion.
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