"Sarah Ferguson is considering 'six-figure offers' for a tell-all interview in the wake of losing her Duchess of York title.
Palace officials fear the the 66-year-old could go 'rogue' after she was ousted from the Royal Family, an insider has said.
It follows her downfall this month amid more revelations about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's dealings with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and as The Mail on Sunday uncovered an email the former duchess had written to the disgraced financier"
As with Meghan, I say, "Come on Fergie, I want you to." First, Fergie is reviled by the public, she lies like a rug, never admits she's done anything wrong, she's linked deep with Epstein and has been a friend with Ghislaine Maxwell for years, even before Ghislaine hooked up with Epstein. In addition, if the interview doesn't go the way she wants it and hard questions are put to her, she'll walk out. I'm sure she's hoping for an Oprah/Sussex Tell All. Is this Fergie feeding the media? I can't imagine she has any staff right now, maybe she does, one person. As for the Palace aides quivering in fear..oh please..Fergie is a nothing.
She would be incredibly stupid to do anything close to a tell-all. Anything she has to say would invariably involve the late Diana and Queen Camilla. That would piss off both William and Charles, and put her daughters between a rock and a hard place. Plus the money she'd get would be gone in a year as she is notoriously bad with finances. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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This could be a ploy for some kind of settlement from Charles. She's never really been on her own before and I'm sure she's terrified. I just don't see either a book or an interview bringing in the money she's hoping for. If anything, her daughters might go in on a stipend for her, but Fergie cannot manage money so it might be a conservator arrangement where she doesn't actually handle anything other than pocket change. I don't see her daughters or Andrew allowing her to fall into dire straits.
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I keep seeing articles and youtubes stating that Fergie is going to live in Australia with her sister, in Portugal at Jack and Eugenie's house, or with Beatrice and Edo in their granny flat. I wonder if Fergie is capable of taking care of herself. It appears she has never done it. I doubt that either son-in-law wants to finance her for the rest of her life. Perhaps Fergie never grew up and has no intention of doing so now. It is a continuing trainwreck.
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I don't think she's had to provide her own housing ever. She went from school to Paddy McNally's chalet. Then didn't she have flatmates? Met Andrew. Didn't they live at Buckingham Palace? Divorce: queen bought her a house. She sold the house. Moved in with Andrew again? Been there ever since. She's never provided for herself, even with all her "endorsements" and books... She just lets money slip through her fingers like water.
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Even after the divorce she knew the family wouldn't let her be homeless and that her daughters would always be taken care of. But now? I think the Windsors had enough of her years ago and are happy to cut all ties.
You know, even if Sarah were to give an interview or write a book she doesn't have anything new to talk about. She isn't enough of an insider to have any real dish on the Sussexes or the Waleses, and that's where the money would be. If she says a word against either Catherine or Camilla she's toast. Her best play is to ingratiate herself, not to try for the fast buck.
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It makes you wonder if she was ever a "confidante" in the royal family. Maybe Diana told her some things, but any others? Margaret wouldn't have given her the time of day cuz I bet Marg found her too common. The queen apparently liked her very much, but would she have been on the same footing and level of intimacy as, say, Margaret Rhodes? Not likely. So what else does Sarah have to "reveal"? Her five minutes with Meghan?
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Sarah trained worked as a secretary after she left school. She worked as a chalet girl for a couple of winters in Verbier for one of Paddy McNally's companies. She was living in a flat with two (I think) roommates and working for a PR company when she started dating Andrew.
I agree that Fergie was never really out on her own. I think her mother paid for Sarah's flat, or at least a good chunk of her expenses. Sarah was out for a good time and she needed money for that. She has never had the foresight to save for a rainy day or, in her case, several monsoon decades.
I can't see either of Fergie's sons-in-law agreeing to financially support her. Although Jack is wealthy, I don't think it's the kind of wealth that would extend to supporting two households. Edo is definitely the wealthier of the two sosn-in-law, but he's worked hard to get Beatrice away from her mother's entanglements and I can't see him agreeing to have Fergie live with them. I think he might agree to giving Fergie a strictly-controlled small monthly allowance, but that's it.
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If Fergie is angling for some kind of deal or settlement from the King, she can go jump a fence. The Royal Family owes her nothing. Charles may want to think carefully if he even would consider giving any help to Fergie. Once he gives her any aid, particularly financial, she blow through and keep coming back for more. In addition, if and when the Epstein files are released, there could be plenty more info on not only Fergie, but Andrew. I think Charles would be roundly criticized if he would cut a deal with Fergie. Fergie has never grown, she was a Daddy's girl and Daddy always helped her out of her scrapes growing up until she married Andrew, then it Andrew and the Queen. She thinks smart and intelligent, she hasn't shown it. This could be difficult for her, her girls and sister may have to help her. I don't see any of her wealthy celeb friends helping. After the release of the second e-mails to Epstein showing she lied, the friends and allies have gone silent.
The tragic story of Sarah Ferguson's great-aunt and her very public downfall
Despite all the scandals and scams she's always managed to bounce back. And here we go again - barely a fortnight after being kicked out of the royal family, the former Duchess of York is trumpeting plans to restore her battered reputation.
She's done it before. Banished from Balmoral when photos were published of her boyfriend John Bryan sucking her toes, she was publicly shamed - but ended up living in luxury with her ex.
Caught secretly trying to sell access to him for £500,000, she said 'sorry' and went on her merry way unscathed.
Only a few weeks ago King Charles himself was pictured gallantly kissing her hand as if she'd never put a foot wrong.
But then up popped her 2011 email to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein where she called him her 'steadfast, generous, and supreme friend'- leading to her instant dismissal from all of her charities and being dumped by the family to which she'd brought nothing but shame.
Sarah's been in more hot water than a rugby team after the final whistle, but this time it's different – and here's why.
She's indicated that her way back is through good deeds. Lots of them. Public favour can be hers once again with her planned rebrand as a 'global empowerment leader'. She'll write books on 'confidence and resilience', go on lecture tours, and speak at women's leadership and wellness events.
She forgets one thing – the word 'Epstein'.
Publishers, who've halted promoting the stream of books she's produced over the years, have turned against the former duchess and no major publishing house now wants to be associated with her. The huge cash advances she once commanded have evaporated.
Without a book to sell there's no TV exposure, which once brought her a useful side-revenue.
Perhaps she might hope to appear again on Oprah, but not much chance of that: in her last outing on the show she confessed she'd been 'drinking and in the gutter' to try to explain away her bad behaviour.
And middle America, where she made millions through her brand endorsement of Weight Watchers, and where might have hoped to charm the ladies who lunch on the chicken circuit, is staunchly traditional.
Her business empire, once fattened by income from such books as Budgie The Little Helicopter, is a hopeless mess.
It emerged last weekend that of 11 companies she has either started or been involved in since 2010, one has assets of £124 and another owes a whopping £300,000. The rest are doing nothing.
Another company of which she's a director, vVoosh, recently collapsed owing large sums of money and its founder, Manuel Fernandez, has reportedly left the country amid allegations of financial misappropriation.
According to The Times, Mr Fernandez - a former British Army soldier - has said these claims will be disproven in a court of law.
Fergie also served on the board of vVoosh's sister charity that was reportedly set up to 'relieve poverty' and improve access to health and education in some of the most 'disadvantaged areas' of the world.
A spokesperson for the newspaper told the Charity Commission has 'initiated the formal removal of the charity from the Register of Charities on the basis that it does not operate'.
This also means that Sarah can't improve her public profile by joining the boards of other charities, since the Charity Commission – certainly in the short term - is likely to frown on any planned appointment.
So the large sums Fergie earned in the past, and the goodwill created by her association with do-good organisations, have evaporated.
It leaves big question marks hanging over her future. Where will she go, what will she do?
Left unexplained is why, after so many years of living with her ex-husband in Royal Lodge, Fergie is now to live a separate life. No details have yet emerged of the deal she's struck with her brother-in-law King Charles – whether she'll be bought a house, granted a lease on a smaller royal property, or just given the money to pay the rent on somewhere else.
We don't know whether it was her choice to part, or his. Or why.
Her predicament, and the future ahead, eerily echo the fate of Sarah's great-aunt Sheila, the Viscountess Powerscourt.
Exceptionally gifted and beguiling in her youth, Lady Powerscourt, like Sarah, inhabited a vast and colossally expensive mansion. Like Sarah, she was an impossible spendthrift. Like Sarah she had her mad moments – as when she went shopping in Mayfair in a chauffeur-driven ambulance.
in her day, like her great-niece, she was heralded as a breath of fresh air on the aristocratic scene and – while the going was good – was a diligent wife and mother. But though till alive when Sarah married Prince Andrew in 1986, she was too far gone to attend the celebrations.
But after she and her husband parted, the life of Sheila, Viscountess Powerscourt, descended into a vortex of drink and drugs. A gifted poet she, like Sarah, produced books which people bought. She, like Sarah, drank to excess.
Without a book to sell there’s no TV exposure, which once brought her a useful side-revenue. Perhaps she might hope to appear again on Oprah, but not much chance of that: in her last outing on the show she confessed she’d been 'drinking and in the gutter' to try to explain away her attempts to sell access to Andrew for £500,000.
But that's where the similarities end.
According to her biographer Penny Perrick, Sheila was a 'serious junkie' – cocaine, morphine, barbiturates, and anything else she could lay her hands on.
She spent her last days hiding away in a succession of hotels in England, France, Ireland and Switzerland. In order to greet friends who visited her, she would start the day with a refreshing glass of brandy.
The downward spiral of this Irishwoman who, some claim, was as great a poet as WB Yeats, left her life in tatters.
When she left Powerscourt, one of the greatest stately homes in Ireland, the place was emptied and sold. Her husband wandered off penniless into obscurity.
So many similarities, so many sad disappointments. And that is the spectre of failure which now hangs over Sarah Ferguson's future.
I don't think Andrew has frequented these clubs very much in recent years, unless it was private parties, etc. Fergie was the one that had the most photos of her arriving or leaving the clubs, especially Annabel's and seen with her celeb friends. Oh well. Andrew will be at the Sandringham Estate, he won't be schlepping to London very often, if at all now days.