Fergie Brokie

Money worries and bankruptcy rumours the Yorks almost lost it all but now Fergie is working hard to plug the financial hole that her ex-husband (who she still lives with) has left, writes royal biographer Emily Andrews 

She was once a royal joke – the divorced duchess who sold a diet book and tried to sell access to her husband, bringing peril to the monarchy. 

How times have changed.

There is no better rehabilitation engine than time and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, aka Fergie, has been through the mill to emerge even brighter on the other side.

Even before her shock diagnosis of breast cancer and single mastectomy last summer, she has been a committed campaigner on women’s health and charity fundraiser.

Now, as a glamorous granny and prolific book writer, and with even a recent stint as a host on ITV’s This Morning, Sarah, 64, has the respectability and independence she has long craved. She has become such a fixture at the ITV studios that after appearing on Lorraine Kelly’s show recently, the presenter handed over to This Morning host Dermot O’Leary joking, ‘I’ll send Sarah round,’ before telling Fergie, ‘Pop round and then you can read the news later!’

Still living with her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, in Windsor’s Royal Lodge, it is her income that seems to be keeping both of them afloat after the Duke of York’s disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview which, amongst other things, cost him his role in British public life.

Borrowing