{"id":319581,"date":"2025-12-01T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:50:13","slug":"sarah-ferguson-future-in-question-after-prince-andrews-downfall-no-telling-what-she-will-do-next-royal-correspondent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319581\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson future in question after Prince Andrew&#8217;s downfall, no telling what she will do next royal correspondent says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions remain over where <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/sarah-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sarah Ferguson\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a> will live after her ex-husband <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/prince-andrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Andrew Mountbatten Windsor\">Andrew Mountbatten Windsor<\/a> was effectively evicted from Royal Lodge, where the former couple had been living together for the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>While Ferguson, who until late October was known as the Duchess of York, has been given the green light to continue to live with Andrew in his new property, if she chooses, her decision about her future remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a royal insider has weighed into rumours about what the former duchess will do next, including speculation she is to write a Prince Harry Spare-style tell-all book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5b86ab93-d5a2-4bf5-ba8b-4b5b17e6fb95.jpeg\" \/>Questions remain over how Sarah Ferguson will earn a living now. (Katrina Lawson Johnston)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Andrew and Fergie seem to be trapped in a never-ending cycle of chasing wealth, no matter who their quarry is or what morals they hold,&#8221; Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/jennie-bond-i-know-real-36329335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"The Mirror\">The Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/world\/prince-andrew-to-be-stripped-of-prince-title-move-out-royal-lodge\/0104e49a-d3b0-4673-8fc6-e2d22f00d2d8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"King Charles formally stripped his brother\">King Charles formally stripped his brother<\/a> of all his royal titles, and began the process of his removal from Royal Lodge, Ferguson had come under fire for her past relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/prince-andrew-news-jeffrey-epstein-warned-to-avoid-contact-with-disastrous-prince-andrew-sarah-ferguson\/c81d9222-2eeb-42dc-bca7-687ea381fa62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Ferguson was \ufeffdropped from multiple charities\">Ferguson was \ufeffdropped from multiple charities<\/a> after it emerged she had described the late convicted sex offender a &#8220;supreme friend&#8221; in an email sent in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/kate-middleton-together-at-christmas-concert-define-her-legacy-means-more-post-cancer\/54f0232a-9baf-4a55-85e0-08e61a601145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"How Kate&#039;s Christmas concert will define her legacy\ufeff\">How Kate&#8217;s Christmas concert will define her legacy\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/queen-camilla-stars-in-crime-novel-inside-buckingham-palace-peter-james-the-hawk-is-dead-interview\/07cf0873-5434-4b08-a040-b414db85351b\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"How the Queen came to star in a crime thriller set in the palace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How the Queen came to star in a crime thriller set in the palace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/norwegian-royal-family-inside-battle-futureproof-monarchy-biggest-scandals-exclusive\/0bc6cf50-9b58-4e6c-b54a-1d941c3bb182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Truth behind future queen&#039;s move to Australia amid family drama at home\ufeff\">Truth behind future queen&#8217;s move to Australia amid family drama at home\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/200ec9f6-045d-46d3-a791-f05d165e4f91.jpeg\" \/>The former duchess toured Perth and Sydney in November, 2024, as part of her career as a children&#8217;s author. (Instagram\/sarahferguson15)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know you feel hellaciously let down by me from what you were either told or read and I must humbly apologise to you and your heart for that,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Ferguson later said she was simply following advice to distance herself from Epstein.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>She had apologised to Epstein, the spokesperson said, because he &#8220;threatened to sue her for defamation for associating him with paedophilia&#8221;.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Months before that email was sent to Epstein, Ferguson had told a UK newspaper she had made a &#8220;terrible, terrible error of judgment&#8221; in being friends with Epstein and accepting his money to pay off her debts.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Following the King&#8217;s swift action towards Andrew, \ufeffFergie&#8217;s publishing career appears all but over with her latest children&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/sarah-ferguson-news-new-childrens-book-pulped-andrew-controversy\/75ab8233-9633-4063-92c7-2585780d7019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"now shelved\">now shelved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old, who has dozens of children&#8217;s books under her belt, including the popular series \ufeffBudgie the Little Helicopter, Little Red and Helping Hands, also had a raft of meet and greets also cancelled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dc8891a0-d842-4479-a8d0-c61983693869.jpeg\"  alt=\"Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York attend Katharine, Duchess of Kent's Requiem Mass service at Westminster Cathedral on September 16, 2025 in London, England. \"\/>The former Duke and Duchess of York were last seen in public together on September 16 in London. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>The move has raised questions of how Fergie will earn a living. <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/prince-andrew-inside-bleak-life-as-a-commoner-andrew-mountbatten-windsor\/4cb5dbc5-4f2b-40bc-86bd-248abb2a3385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Andrew&#039;s lifestyle will be funded from the King&#039;s\">Andrew&#8217;s lifestyle will be funded from the King&#8217;s<\/a> private income and he&#8217;ll soon move into a property at Sandringham.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is not believed to be joining Andrew in Norfolk, making it the first time in <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/prince-andrew-news-what-is-next-for-sarah-ferguson-on-her-own-for-first-time-in-two-decades-opinion\/bc8bcc27-922b-4db8-9ad5-77b96a68cae2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"two decades that they will be living apart\">two decades that they will be living apart<\/a>.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Bond said: &#8220;Surely the time has come for them to cut their cloth to suit the money they have, and to live a quiet life without causing further embarrassment to themselves and to the family at large&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But, she added: &#8220;there is no telling what Sarah will do next&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d44c1b51-3e37-476f-b5e3-bea36ace6907.jpeg\"  alt=\"Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York arrive to attend the Thanksgiving Service for King Constantine of the Hellenes at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England, on Tuesday Feb. 27, 2024. Constantine II, Head of the Royal House of Greece, reigned as the last King of the Hellenes from 6 March 1964 to 1 June 1973, and died in Athens at the age of 82. (Chris Jackson\/Pool via AP)\"\/>The former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, pictured at Windsor Castle in February 2024. (AP)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has written her side of the story before, and she has clawed her way back from the depths of humiliation and despair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time, however, I cannot see a way back for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However author Andrew Lownie, who wrote Entitled \u2013 which marked the <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/prince-andrew-news-unanswered-questions-that-remain-as-andrew-is-stripped-of-his-prince-title-opinion\/7f4b9abb-df62-48b3-8a88-e85cc4c25558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"beginning of the end for Andrew and Ferguson\">beginning of the end for Andrew and Ferguson<\/a> \u2013 suggested it wasn&#8217;t completely over for the former duchess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/2023\/06\/27\/12\/20\/sarah-ferguson-duchess-of-york-life-in-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7b3e1156-4e90-42a1-87bb-48bb0b32728a.jpeg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of York&#8217;s colourful life in pictures<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The royals take the view, &#8216;never explain, never complain&#8217;, and hope that the problem goes away with some new crisis, nothing changes,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/honey.nine.com.au\/royals\/sarah-ferguson-duchess-of-york-comeback-predicted-entitled-author-andrew-lownie\/be8a276a-a108-41ab-9ea6-953d288e4b4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Lownie said\">Lownie said<\/a> in London to Foreign Press Association journalists recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I suspect that will be the same with Fergie now, that she will just go on and confesses her sins, the Americans will think she&#8217;s wonderful and a poor victim, and she&#8217;ll be back grifting away within six months.&#8221;\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/latest\/ninecomau-whats-app-signup\/421c4156-5b58-42a0-9c4e-e65401b4e271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOLLOW US ON WHATSAPP HERE<\/a>: Stay across all the latest in celebrity, lifestyle and opinion via our WhatsApp channel. 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