Sarah Ferguson loves to look back at her bond with Princess Diana through rose-colored glasses.
It doesn’t quite work. The truth is their friendship shattered long before Diana died. And it wasn’t fixed.
Andrew Lownie wrote Entitled: The Rise & Fall of the House York. He told the Daily Mail the damage started when Sarah published My Story in 1996. It wasn’t just a memoir. It was a detonator.
The problem? A story about catching a verruca from borrowing Diana’s shoes.
Sure it sounds trivial. But Diana didn’t see it that way. She was terrified Sarah was selling them out to the press.
“Diana was very concerned that Sarah Ferguson might be selling stories… though Sarah pretended the relationship had been repaired.”
They were supposed to be allies. Both of them crushed by tabloids and palace etiquette. Sundays meant complaining. Just them moaning about how restricted they were. It feels so safe. Until it wasn’t.
Sarah got loud. Too loud. She undermined Diana. So Diana pulled back.
That silence stuck until the crash in 1997.
Things didn’t get better. Rumors swirl that Sarah and Prince Andrew considered pawning Diana’s relics while in royal exile. One source told RadarOnline in January that Sarah clings to the past. Letters. Gifts. Mementos. All of it.
“The prospect of Diana’s correspondence being sold has unsettled the palace… shifting from an uncomfortable situation to a full-blown crisis.”
Where is Sarah now?
She is sitting in an Alps chalet. The Sun reports she’s been hiding since April. Out of sight. Out of mind mostly. She and Andrew got evicted from the Royal Lodge after their ties to Jeffrey Epstein came out. Andrew moved in with his brother King Charles at Sandringham.
Sarah keeps her distance. She keeps her secrets.
Does it make her look loyal or just cautious?
