Sarah Ferguson has discovered herself with out a dwelling after she and ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, have been formally booted out the Royal Lodge by King Charles

Sarah Ferguson’s right down to earth nature noticed her win the hearts of the nation, however behind closed doorways, it seems her spending habits had been something however. As soon as hailed ‘Fabulous Fergie’ by the media, Sarah mentioned she was the “luckiest woman on this planet” to be marrying a “good-looking prince” on the night time earlier than her royal wedding ceremony in 1986.

Nonetheless, her ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has now been stripped of his royal titles and faces a lifetime of exile within the shadows whereas Fergie has been left homeless and worlds away from the lavish life-style she clung onto for many years.

Final week, King Charles delivered the ultimate blow to his youthful brother and booted him out of his 30-room Royal Lodge mansion, the place he had lived with Sarah since 2008. That very same week, the previous Duke of York misplaced all of his royal honours, which was confirmed in an announcement by the Palace, who made it clear that King Charles and Queen Camilla stand with the victims and survivors of abuse in all types.

Jeffrey Epstein sufferer, Virginia Guiffre, who took her personal life earlier this yr, accused Andrew of sexually assaulting her thrice when she was a teen. The 65-year-old has continued to vehemently deny these claims.

Andrew is now set to maneuver right into a property on the sprawling Sandringham property however Fergie has reportedly been instructed by the Palace to seek out her personal dwelling preparations, reducing her out from the royal fold utterly.

Sarah, who’s the mom of the King’s nieces, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, had been dwelling with Andrew for years regardless of their divorce in 1996, the Mirror studies.

Andrew will apparently obtain a six-figure pay-out for transferring out of the Lodge, however Fergie, who famously discovered herself in extreme debt for years, has no such security internet to fall again on.

The ex duchess has beforehand confessed she is “horrible with cash” and has confronted chapter up to now.

Along with her internet value reportedly solely coming in at £745,000, Fergie seemingly would not even be capable to afford a terrace property within the city of Windsor which she’s referred to as dwelling for many years.

In response to a fast Rightmove search, terrace homes go for anyplace between £795,000 to £1.87 million.

Sarah has clawed herself again from monetary issues in numerous methods together with starring in Weight Watchers promoting campaigns and flogging merchandise on QVC to showing on Unfastened Girls and even writing saucy novels.

Nonetheless, her loopy spending habits and obvious love for extra are at odds with the present predicament she finds herself in.

The previous duchess was allegedly bailed out by the late Queen on “a number of events” after operating up staggering money owed.

In response to Andrew Lownie’s new biography, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Home of York, this included a fee of half one million kilos in April 1994 when the financial institution Coutts “demanded £500,00 inside 14 days.”

Lownie, who spent 4 years researching Sarah and Andrew for his ebook, claims the ex duchess was a manic spender throughout her marriage, splurging on workers, holidays, events and flowers, in what he has described as a lifetime of “opulent extra”. Worst of all, he claims no thought was given as to how payments could be settled.

Lownie detailed ridiculous payments comparable to paying £65,000 to have a private coach on everlasting standby regardless of utilizing their companies on simply two events in a single yr.

In the meantime, Fergie additionally allegedly ran up a invoice of £51,000 on the luxurious division retailer Selfridges, the place she would make purchases via the agency’s private shopper and her old style pal, Pandora Delevigne.

Sarah additionally as soon as spent £14,000 in a month at a London wine service provider, in accordance with the ebook.

Nonetheless, Fergie’s extreme spending ultimately caught up together with her.

After a invoice of £500 went unpaid, a newsagent reportedly refused to provide the Duchess, whereas a neighborhood butcher, dry cleansing firm and automobile rent agency are additionally listed amongst her collectors.

Even the BP card used at petrol stations was allegedly confiscated as a consequence of unpaid arrears.

Fergie accrued a £6,500 invoice utilizing Queen Elizabeth’s particular mail service on “an virtually every day foundation”. In addition to mailing out letters and images, the Duchess would additionally ship out opulent items, together with silver letter openers, cufflinks and cash clips.

Lownie additionally claims that Sarah made some questionable choices when it got here to property.

Again in Could 2009, the mum-of-two apparently signed a yr’s lease on a £3million mansion on Surrey’s swish Wentworth Property, at £8,000 per thirty days.

Nonetheless, when the property house owners determined to return sooner than anticipated while nonetheless requiring her to honour the six-month fee settlement, the previous duchess reportedly opted in opposition to transferring in altogether, as an alternative making Royal Lodge at Windsor her dwelling alongside ex-husband Prince Andrew. This resulted in, as Lownie described it, “£50,000 on a home she by no means lived in”.

A former member of workers instructed Lownie about “greed and wastefulness that contributed to the duchess’s monetary downfall”, saying: “Each night time she calls for a complete facet of beef, a leg of lamb and a rooster, that are laid out on the eating room desk like a medieval banquet. It is a feast that might make Henry VIII proud.”

They continued: “However typically there may be simply her and her women, Bea and Eugenie, and most of it’s wasted. There isn’t a try to hold it to have chilly the subsequent day. It simply sits there all night time, and the subsequent day it is thrown away.”

Lownie additional claims Fergie “would often miss flights that weren’t refundable”, accumulating hundreds of kilos in avoidable bills.

One other supply disclosed that Fergie “thought nothing of arriving at an airport with 25 instances and paying between £800 and £4,000 in extra baggage. Not less than 5 of these instances had been full of toiletries and make-up. One other could be used solely for garments hangers.”

In the meantime, “private trainers, hairdressers and Pilates instructors had been paid a whole bunch of kilos an hour to attend for her to emerge for the day within the late afternoon. Her butler needed to get in at 4.30am to place watercress on ice”.

Following her 1996 divorce from Andrew, Fergie complained about monetary pressures

In response to The Occasions, she mentioned: “We received divorced as a result of I needed to exit to work and Andrew and I believed that it wasn’t proper for me to be industrial whereas I used to be nonetheless within the royal household”.

Sarah had penned the primary Budgie ebook while nonetheless married, “as a result of there was no cash for the second son. Or little or no. When individuals say, ‘You possibly can’t afford to do this,’ I say, who’re you? It is my cash. I will do as I would like.”

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Sarah even took cash from late paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, with contemporary allegations about her connection to the disgraced financier attracting huge consideration in latest weeks.

She borrowed no less than £15,000 from Epstein, with newly emerged emails purportedly revealing that she additionally requested further sums: $50,000 (£37,240) to $100,000 (£78,475) from him to help with “small payments” and that she requested to go to his personal island within the Caribbean.

Sarah Ferguson confronted a backlash from a number of charities she had lengthy been related to when an e-mail she wrote to Epstein in 2011 surfaced, regardless of having publicly disowned him in a newspaper interview.

Many of those charities deemed it “inappropriate” to take care of their skilled ties with Sarah, who referred to Epstein as a “supreme pal” within the e-mail and apologised for her earlier feedback about him.

Her spokesperson has defended her, stating that the e-mail was written beneath excessive duress, with Epstein allegedly threatening to “destroy” her and her household after she expressed her abhorrence for paedophilia within the interview.

Nonetheless, one other e-mail later got here to mild, despatched by Jeffrey Epstein to his authorized staff concerning her interview, which contained a stunning declare about Sarah “celebrating” his launch from jail for intercourse crimes by bringing her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, then aged 20 and 19 respectively, to go to him.

A supply near Sarah has acknowledged that neither she nor her daughters recall this journey.

The longer term residence of Sarah Ferguson stays unsure as she prepares to depart Royal Lodge, with it being understood that she will not be returning to reside with Prince Andrew.

Throughout pivotal discussions with the Palace previous to their stunning announcement, Sarah reportedly requested Adelaide Cottage, the previous dwelling of Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three kids.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have lately relocated to Forest Lodge, leaving Royal commentators shocked at Sarah’s proposal. Previous to the resurgence of scandals, Fergie bought an opulent London townhouse that she had solely bought in 2022.

The Belgravia property, which she purchased for £4.2 million, was allegedly rented out to tenants for a formidable £4,000 per week.

Nonetheless, she suffered a big loss when she bought the home this summer season, for £400,000 lower than what she paid for it, in accordance with Land Registry paperwork reported by the Each day Mail.

Her spokesperson acknowledged that Sarah “wasn’t trying to promote it,” however this yr she “was requested by the tenant to purchase it, and it appeared like a superb time to promote.

“It is an funding property for her women, and so the monies will likely be reinvested accordingly,” the spokesperson added.

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Nonetheless, the Mail suggests different sources declare the proceeds from the sale could have been meant to assist fund Andrew and Sarah’s life-style at Royal Lodge, earlier than they had been evicted.

Beforehand, it was recommended that Fergie would possibly contemplate beginning afresh overseas. Creator Lownie mentioned this chance in a chat with Good day! journal, previous to her and Andrew’s departure from the Royal Lodge.

He predicted that the couple would go for residences that might allow them to remain “beneath the radar”. Lownie speculated that Sarah may doubtlessly relocate to Switzerland, the place she and Andrew beforehand owned a ski chalet in Verbier.

This £20 million property was listed on the market in 2022, reportedly to finance Andrew’s out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre.