By Molly Claire Goddard
11:30am PST, Dec 18, 2025
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Sarah Ferguson's late mother, Susan Barrantes, warned that her daughter would revolt against The Firm if she didn't get custody of her kids after her divorce from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. "Sarah will not accept easily losing her children, and if she does, she is prepared to tell stories that are not very pleasant about the English Crown," she told Italian magazine Gente before her 1998 death.
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In the book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, author Andrew Lownie claimed Queen Elizabeth II was nervous about what Sarah Ferguson would publicly reveal about the family. "The threat was ever present, and the royal household knew it always would be," the writer alleged.
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Sarah Ferguson's "trump card" was that she "could always sell a kiss-and-tell memoir."
"Fergie was determined to avoid the fate of her mother and sister Jane Ferguson, who had both lost custody of their children when their marriages broke up," Andrew Lownie wrote.
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Now, after being stripped of her title and evicted from Royal Lodge, Sarah Ferguson might spill The Firm's secrets for money. "With no substantial income coming in, Sarah is now looking to follow in the footsteps of
Prince Harry and is willing to pen a tell-all memoir about her time with Andrew [Mountbatten-Windsor] and how she was treated by the royal family after their split," a source told
Daily Express. "She has a lot of diaries and evidence of the backstabbing, scandals and cover-ups. For the right amount of money, she is willing to spill everything, but she's hoping to make enough money that it will give her a nice little nest egg for the rest of her life."
