Prince Philip often said he was never in the same room as Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of his son Andrew, after photos appeared in a 1992 newspaper of Sarah topless and her toes sucked by a lover in the South. of France.
Gyles Brandreth, Philip’s official biographer whose book The final portrait will be published later this month, confirmed the long rumor today in the second long excerpt from his book.
Philip, according to him, declared that “enough was enough” after the photos appeared. He said Brandreth Fergie was ‘simply out of the blue’ and decided to have nothing more to do with her.
At the time the photos were first published, Sarah was staying in the Queen’s Scottish estate Balmoral. Philip immediately put his resolution into action, as Ferguson himself reminded Brandreth, saying: ‘It was ridiculous. As soon as I enter one door, he falls over the corgis to reach the other door. It was very funny. Except, of course, it was not. ”
Although the Queen continued to receive Fergie even after her divorce and the subsequent divorce of Prince Andrew, Philip made it clear that he had no desire to ever see her again.
Sarah complained to Brandreth: ‘Of course I want to see him. I’m the mother of his granddaughters after all. ”
Brandreth said when discussing it with Prince Philip, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, “But the kids are coming to stay,” adding, “I’m not vindictive, but I do not see the point.”
He described Andrew and Sarah’s arrangements after the divorce, which led to them continuing to share a home, as ‘truly bizarre’, adding: ‘I do not pretend to understand it.’
Brandreth writes that Fergie and Philip had a diamond-opposed stance on the “bottle of your feelings” which she said was positively harmful.
Brandreth writes that when her daughters were children, she would tell them to stand and shout on the expansive grounds of their home, Sunninghill Park.
Brandreth wrote that Sarah then protested and caught him surprised when she let out a blood-curdling scream.
He writes: ‘The prospect of shouting at his former daughter-in-law in the middle of Sunninghill Park could be one of the reasons why the Duke of Edinburgh decided to give her a wide berth after her divorce from Prince Andrew. He regards restraint as a virtue and self-control as an attribute to admire. ‘
Philip did not sit on the Oprah Winfrey Network for the six parties in 2011 Sarah to find, in which Fergie cried with a TV psychiatrist on screen. He told Brandreth he was a proponent of ‘self-awareness’, but against ‘the endless introspection that seems so these days.’ As reported Monday, he views Harry and Meghan’s decision to conduct a similar interview as ‘madness’.
Brandie, reports Fergie, tried to restore relations with Philip, but was constantly repulsed.
For Philip’s 80th birthday, she sent him a nice dinner. ‘But even here, fate conspired against her, Brandreth writes:’ It should have had 12 settings, but it came with 13: the ‘monster’ was included in the set. Somehow, something always goes wrong with Sarah. ‘
Philip’s alleged promise to never be in the same room as Fergie was only broken when they both attended Prince Harry’s wedding at Windsor Castle in May 2018.