as for sarah "selling" herself and her royal connection....the media keeps it all alive. they ask those questions during interviews and she answers. i think that a lot of blame has to go to them and not all of it to sarah.
You bring it to a point: "she answers" - you don't have to talk about old, old stories when you have something newer to actually say. And, being a journalist myself, I was wondering how a journalist could bring such old things up during an interview without being corrected by Sarah. I mean, she does not have that much of time for interviews, I think, as she is so busy according to her own words. Thus, she should want to talk about the current topic.
Instead she talks about her ex-marriage. Just imagine an interviewer having the possibility to talk to Madonna about her latest album asks her instead about her marriage to Sean Penn - that would be more realistic because Penn just won an Oscar. But I seriously doubt this interviewer would get another chance to talk to Madonna.
If you read the latest interview of Sarah in the "Telegraph", at
Sarah, Duchess of York exclusive: 'The only thing I ever succeeded at was failure' - Telegraph you'll find this by the author: "We have met to discuss her latest project as co-producer on the film The Young Victoria. She tells me she always loved the story of Victoria, ever since she was given access to private documents by the Royal family." And then Sarah goes on and on about her life as a Royal, the fault she made, how she would act differently nowadays.... a long story of several paragraphs.
Then this: 'I don’t want to [talk so much], really,’ she says. 'I’d rather shut up and fade away but…’ She’s actually here to talk about The Young Victoria, which is something she does like talking about", writes the author. so after we learned all about her binge eating because of Diana-comparisons (these infos made it into the tabloids) and other stuff related to her time as a Royal, we finally hear a bit about the film she co-produces. Not much, though, as very soon she changes from the romantic relationship between Victoria and Albert to that of her mother and stepfather - ending at:
"She talks a lot about how you must show people you love them – telling them and hugging them and never leaving people without letting them know they are special. 'Before I came here to this interview I had to turn the car around to hug my daughters goodbye. They heard me come back into the house and they ran down the stairs and Beatrice said, “Hugs?”’
She looks really tearful when she says this. She obviously adores her daughters."
And then we learn more about Sarah Ferguson but nothing about the film really - only this: "She’s always maintained a close relationship with Prince Andrew, but now 'the Firm’ seems to have allowed her back in the fold, last summer inviting her to holiday with her daughters, Princesses Beatrice, 20, and Eugenie, 18, on the Balmoral estate for the first time since that notorious toe-sucking incident 16 years ago." What that has to do with the film? Well.... Sarah says she had the idea of the film at a time when she was still a Royal and her relationship with her in-laws was not yet strained. and then: "But even that's got better". And then the Balmoral-paragraph.
Why do I look that closely at this interview: Because I cannot imagine a journalist being sent to an interview with a producer of a film about to open this week with orders to write a piece about said film wishing to come back with a collection of old, old stories and reminiscences of an ex-Royal. So I guess it was not the author who asked these questions but Sarah talking about this. I don't want to guess what the editor would have said if the thing about the binge eating had been missing!
But I can only invite anyone to read the interview and form their own opinion.
and take care of Mr. Russo who has the crud (and you all know what big babies men can be! Sorry Warren! 
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