Sarah Ferguson has reportedly been \u201ccut adrift\u201d by the royal family and ostracised by high society.<\/p>\n
Friends of the former duchess made the claim as she prepares to lose her long-time home at Royal Lodge after she and her husband Andrew Windsor were stripped of their royal titles due to their links to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
A close pal of Sarah\u2019s told The i Paper: \u201cShe\u2019s been cut adrift. I\u2019m trying to keep her spirits up but when we spoke, she seemed lonely and isolated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The friend added Sarah\u2019s her daughters, princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, remained supportive, as had Andrew.<\/p>\n
But Sarah \u2013 who has faced long-standing financial difficulties \u2013\u00a0is said to have few options left over her future accommodation and no permanent alternative home arranged.<\/p>\n
The 66-year-old, who has lived at the 30-room Windsor property with her former husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, 65, since 2008, is expected to move out of the luxury property within months.<\/p>\n
King Charles, 76, has reportedly made clear his responsibility extends only to finding accommodation for his brother.<\/p>\n
Sarah lost her Duchess of York title and much of her earning power after becoming embroiled in the scandal surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
In an email written to Epstein in 2011, which was made public earlier this year, Sarah apologised profusely for distancing herself from him after his 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for sex.<\/p>\n
A source close to her said the email had been written \u201cin panic\u201d and without legal advice, explaining: \u201cShe feared Epstein would sue her for libel. She hadn\u2019t committed any crimes \u2013 she was just hapless. If there was a Second World War bomb in Piccadilly, Sarah would step on it and set it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Socialite and party planner Liz Brewer told The i Sarah had always been \u201cvery personable\u201d but admitted she was currently unwelcome at high-society gatherings.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cPeople, unfortunately, are not brave enough to make their own minds up. She\u2019s in a very difficult position.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah has also been dropped by several charities and media outlets.<\/p>\n
ITV sources told The i Paper she will no longer appear on daytime programmes such as This Morning or Loose Women.<\/p>\n
A children\u2019s book she wrote, Flora ands Fern: Kindness Along The Way, was pulled from publication last month.<\/p>\n
Her charity, the SF Trust, has also deleted all references to her former title from its website.<\/p>\n
Friends say Ferguson is considering options to restore her finances, including a potential interview with Oprah Winfrey, who has previously hosted her twice \u2013 in 1996 following her separation from Andrew and in 2010 after a News of the World undercover sting.<\/p>\n
The interview could reportedly fetch up to $1 million.<\/p>\n
Another possible project is a memoir revealing her experience of royal life, which could also attract a six-figure payday. However, friends believe she would avoid saying anything that might harm her daughters\u2019 relationship with senior royals, including the future king Prince William.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson has reportedly been \u201ccut adrift\u201d by the royal family and ostracised by high society. Friends of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[173775,177751,2204,5105,7710,519,34841,448,7717,171591],"class_list":{"0":"post-556582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","9":"tag-andrew-windsor","10":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royal-titles","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-sarah-ferguson","17":"tag-sex-offender"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115512374939101950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}