Sarah Ferguson returns to the limelight with the upcoming publication of her new romance novel A Most Intriguing Lady, inspired by elements of his personal life and people around him. In the midst of promotion, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew agreed to do an interview with the magazine People. Our colleagues took the opportunity to ask him questions about Meghan and Harrywhose relations with the rest of the Windsors have been very strained since the release of the prince’s resounding memoir, their Netflix documentary and their explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2020. The Sussexes have indeed often accused the royal family of inappropriate behavior and contemptuous of them. “I don’t think anyone has the right to judge another person. I myself am not in a position to make judgments“said the novelist.
If Sarah Ferguson didn’t want to throw stones at Meghan and Harry, it’s because her ex-husband is too an outcast of the royal court. Andrew indeed narrowly avoided a trial for rape and sexual assault against Virginia Giuffre, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein, an incarcerated sex criminal who died in 2019. Beatrice and Eugenie’s mother has also been the subject of several scandals: a few months after the announcement of her separation from Andrew in 1992, she is photographed on the French Riviera with her financial adviser John Bryan on a train to suck his toes. Rebelote in 2010, when she was trapped by the News of the World while she negotiates with a (fake) businessman an interview with her ex-husband in exchange for 1.5 million euros. “I’ve been judged all my life and I wouldn’t allow myself to do the same with the Sussexes“, she continued.
Sparing the goat and the cabbage, the famous redhead added that Princess Diana, to whom she was close during her lifetime, would be “incredibly proud of all her grandchildren”, including Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1 (the children of Harry and Meghan) as well as Prince William and Kate’s three children, namely George, 9, Charlotte, 7 and Louis, 4. These statements by Sarah Ferguson are unexpected, since the Sussexes did not hesitate to qualify the charges against Andrew of “shameful scandal” in their documentary. In addition, two days earlier, the British tabloids revealed that Charles III will withdraw Frogmore Cottage from the couple as soon as he is crowned king on May 6. He will reallocate the Sussex home to his brother, Andrew…
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Sarah Ferguson is about to discuss her relationship with Elizabeth II
This is not the only speech that Sarah Ferguson intends to make on the British royal family. The Express reported that the author will also make statements sur Elizabeth II, late monarch. She will indeed be going to 92nd Street Y, an international cultural center in New York, where, according to the press release, she “will talk about his relationship with the Queen and will answer some questions about Harry and Meghan”. In 2022, the mother-of-one said she wrote the novel to counter her stress caused by the threat of Prince Andrew’s sexual abuse trial. She had indicated that she had given a copy in French to the Queen before his death last September. No one knows if the sovereign had time to read the novel.
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