As the extent of the fallout from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson’s scandal involving their previous ties to and correspondence with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein turns into clear, questions on the former couple’s subsequent steps enhance.
Both Andrew and Ferguson have been stripped of their royal titles and honors and the pair have been served discover of their eviction from Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion in Windsor they’ve shared for greater than 20 years, even following their divorce.
One latest rumor predicts she might be planning a transfer into a granny annex on Princess Beatrice’s property and longtime royal reporter Richard Kay has identified that Ferguson’s love for spending time on the east coast of the United States as soon as earned her the nickname “Duchess of New York,” suggesting that she might transfer throughout the pond for a recent begin after leaving Royal Lodge.
Regardless of the place Ferguson lands after leaving Royal Lodge, the greater query on many royal watchers’ minds is how she’ll pay for it. Not solely will Ferguson presumably be solely answerable for funding her way of life going ahead, amid the backlash she’s face, the former Duchess of York has suffered a number of latest skilled setbacks, together with the cancellation of a deliberate youngsters’s e-book.
Sarah Ferguson throughout an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on December 10, 1996.
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Ferguson can also be stated to have been fielding some financially profitable gives in the wake of the scandal, together with reported six-figure gives to do a televised tell-all interview.
According to Ailsa Anderson, who beforehand served as press secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth, a tell-all from Ferguson might be damaging for the royal household. During a latest look on the Sun‘s Royal podcast, Anderson was requested to share the recommendation she would supply if information broke that Ferguson was planning on doing a tell-all interview—and she or he did not maintain again.
“Firstly, doom and gloom,” Anderson stated (per Express). “You’d have to see what she’s going to say. I think never do a knee jerk reaction, don’t be painted into a corner and then ask to do something immediately. You see what she says, analyze it.”
Sarah Ferguson doing an interview throughout an occasion in Minnesota in January 2000.
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That extra cautious method is a very tactical one—Anderson defined that the unsuitable response could make a dangerous PR scenario worse and that each one of the chatter pulls focus from the issues the royal household actually desires to make use of their platform for.
“What you don’t want to do is add fuel to the flames of anything that she has said and prolong a story so I think it would very much be dependent on what she came up with, but it wouldn’t be good news,” Anderson added. “And it distracts from all the good work the Royal Family are doing, you know we’ve got a state visit next week, what you don’t want is her blowing that out of the water by giving an interview.”