The Duchess of Excess

Deaf to the world. Once described as “the greatest single threat to the monarchy,” Sarah Ferguson—ex-wife of disgraced royal Andrew—has lived a life defined by scandal, debt, and sexual high jinks By Hilary Rose When Sarah Ferguson got married in 1986 she was given a coat of arms with a Latin motto that translates as “out of adversity grows happiness”. She spent the next 40 years testing that theory to destruction. With her life derailed on what may be a permanent basis, she apparently spent a month at a $17,500-a-day wellness clinic in Switzerland, wallowing in self-pity, exhibiting no remorse and convinced that the world is out to get her. She is now said to have washed up, desperate and penniless, in the UAE, staying goodness knows where, at the expense of goodness knows who, having arrived on a flight paid for with goodness knows what. Close observers will recall that we have been here before. READ ON