By Katherine Tinsley
3:45pm PDT, Oct 27, 2025
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Sarah Ferguson's team claimed she reached out to Jeffrey Epstein after he "threatened to destroy her family," but her proximity to the convicted abuser left a stain on her reputation.
"My impression of her has always been that she's someone quite hard to dislike. Misguided, yes. Over-enthusiastic, yes. But someone, I thought, with a good heart," royal expert
Jennie Bond told
Daily Express.
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"Now, however, we know that she lied about her friendship with Epstein, and you do have to question what sort of person would do that," Jennie Bond continued, as Sarah Ferguson publicly denounced Jeffrey Epstein before sending her controversial message. "She says she can't remember the meeting, but Epstein's emails suggest otherwise."
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Jeffrey Epstein helped pay off Sarah Ferguson's expenses, but her spending habits and the financier's assistance continue to spark curiosity about their relationship.
"I've always thought her downfall was her hopeless grasp of money, combined with her desire to have more and more of it," Jennie Bond noted. "She allowed her debts to spiral on a level few of us would understand."
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Sarah Ferguson might not be able to get out of the current mess she's in.
"Somehow she managed to come back, eventually, from the scandal of her topless toe sucking episode in the south of France, and — even more astonishingly — from her attempt to sell access to Andrew for half £1 million. But I don't think there's any way back from this," Jennie Bond declared. "She has shamed herself beyond redemption."
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"I think the pressure on Andrew and Sarah to quit Royal Lodge is now so intense that they will eventually leave," Jennie Bond continued, referring to how King Charles III asked the Yorks to vacate the royal estate before his coronation. "My hunch is that they will go into some kind of exile, possibly in Switzerland or the Middle East — where Andrew seems to have many friends, and live out the rest of their lives away from the U.K."
