By Molly Claire Goddard
8:27am PST, Nov 5, 2025
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In Andrew Lownie's book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, a former staffer claimed Sarah Ferguson wasn't mindful of her resources. "It was greed and wastefulness that contributed to the [former] duchess's financial downfall," they alleged. "Every night she demands a whole side of beef, a leg of lamb and a chicken, which are laid out on the dining room table like a medieval banquet. It's a feast that would make Henry VIII proud."
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According to Andrew Lownie, Sarah Ferguson would throw away money by missing flights and packing suitcases with unnecessary items. "She would arrive with 25 cases and pay between £800 [$1,042 USD] and £4,000 [$521 USD] in excess baggage," the author wrote, adding how she brought multiple trunks "solely for clothes hangers."
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Sarah Ferguson also allegedly requested "personal trainers, hairdressers and Pilates instructors who were paid hundreds of pounds an hour to wait for her to emerge for the day in the late afternoon."
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Reality set in for Sarah Ferguson when she and her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, were stripped of their titles and forced to vacate Royal Lodge over their ties to Jeffrey Epstein. "I've always thought her downfall was her hopeless grasp of money, combined with her desire to have more and more of it," royal expert Jennie Bond said. "She allowed her debts to spiral on a level few of us would understand."
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Sarah Ferguson also reportedly lost
money on her investment property [a townhouse in Belgravia] when she sold it for £3.85 million [$5 million USD] after snapping it up for £4.25 million [$5.5 million] three years prior. "[She] wasn't looking to sell it. She was asked by the tenant to buy it, and it seemed like a good time to sell," her representative
James Henderson told
GB News. "It's an investment property for her girls, and so the monies will be reinvested accordingly."
