Sarah, Duchess of York, Current Events 6: December 2006 - February 2007

[ysbel]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

But SM, did you join because of Sarah or had you heard of it before? It still boils down to taking responsibilty for your decisions, not just for joining, but for sticking to it! Good luck.

I think people had heard of it but Sarah put a recognizable face to it. She also did joint interviews with other women who had been in the program.

There's a difference between saying to oneself that this is a good thing to do and seeing someone else do it and saying if she could do it so could I.

Generally people have better success achieving something if they can visualize themselves achieving their goals and its easier to visualize yourself doing it if you've seen someone else do it.

[Zonk]

Sarah looks fabulous!

[Bella]

Thanks for the photos, Iceflower. Both Sarah and Andrew look very good. I esp. like Sarah's long black coat w the blue satin lining. Very elegant on her.

I have a question: when royals go out to dinner like this, do their bodyguards have to go into the restaurant too? Do they order something to eat or drink or just take up a table nearby?

[kaffir]

When my bodyguard is working, I'm paying him to watch over me, not to eat. Of course if it's a long day he gets a break.

[corazon]

they look so happy togheter!, andrew look a bit old.............

[Avalon]

Fergie and Andrew's dinner date in Mayfair

They may have been divorced for more than a decade, but Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are clearly still the best of friends.
They spent more than three-and-a-half hours in each other's company on Monday night, enjoying a meal at the China Tang restaurant at the Dorchester.
Sarah had arrived alone for their meeting, but the Duke of York, 46, offered her a lift home when they left the Mayfair hotel just past midnight. The couple officially ended their 10-year marriage in 1996.

Picture: Prince Andrew and Sarah

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by ysbel

There's a difference between saying to oneself that this is a good thing to do and seeing someone else do it and saying if she could do it so could I.

I expect it takes different people different ways to motivate themselves.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Avalon

Picture: Prince Andrew and Sarah

They both look terrible in this photo.

[selrahc4]

Originally Posted by Avalon

Sarah had arrived alone for their meeting, but the Duke of York, 46, offered her a lift home when they left the Mayfair hotel just past midnight.

Where did he drop her off?

[ysbel]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

They both look terrible in this photo.

Andrew certainly does. Yuck! He's too nice looking to have a bad hair day.

[Avalon]

Originally Posted by selrahc4

Where did he drop her off?

I have no idea, to tell the truth, The article doesn't state that.
I would assume Andrew drop her to hotel, if she's staying there. And since they've arrived separately, it might be possible.

[Duchess]

did someone (or it could've been her in an interview) say she stays with him at the house when she's in london.

[Avalon]

Originally Posted by Duchess

did someone (or it could've been her in an interview) say she stays with him at the house when she's in london.

She did. You can find the article, posted by Roslyn in this post.

[Sereta]

Originally Posted by Warren

Yes, remaining on good terms with one's ex is regarded by some of our members as "dysfunctional" and setting a bad example for the children. An acrimonious splitup is apparently the preferred and better option for all concerned.

Nobody has stated this.
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Originally Posted by Alison20

It is quite possible that Andrew and Sarah have a platonic relationship now. Whether they do or not, though, is their private business, and I for one don't feel I have to be a keeper of their morals.

As long as Sarah keeps blabbing her private life to the media and thus making it very "public" then it's only natural that people are going to respond and discuss it.

Originally Posted by Alison20

I believe that he vetoed Sarah living with Andrew in a naval married quarter when they were first married. (Why? Who knows - when Philip was first married to Pss Elizabeth she lived with him in ?Malta as a naval wife.) This left Sarah lonely and isolated for much of the time, with no 'support network' round here, which would have been available in a naval setting. She is not the first young wife to get bored and do silly things - but others are not in the unforgiving media spotlight.

I don't see why Philip or anyone else would care whether Sarah stayed with Andrew or at Buck house. I think it's more likely Sarah that didn't want to stay on base and give up the social life in London (and of course all the toe sucking ). Why do the royal family always get accused of interfering in Sarah & Andrew's married life? It's been well documented that the Queen and Phillip made a point of staying out of their children's marital situations. Even when Chas & Diana were having their problems they allowed them to try to work things out their own way (even their affairs). It wasn't until Chas & Diana made it clear they wanted out of their marriage and things got out of control (publicly) that the Queen "allowed" them to divorce. So why should it have been any different for Andrew?
Nothing like using the Royal Family as a scapegoat!

Originally Posted by Alison20

Fourthly, Sarah has worked hard and paid off her debts. She is involved with a children's charity, and works for Weight Watchers in the US. Some people are sour about her - but I think she deserves the success she has, and also deserves to have Andrew still care about her.

It's amusing whenever anything controversial is brought up about Sarah her debts are always brought to the forefront. Yes she has paid off her debts. But they were her debts from her living a very extravagant, self-indulgent lifestyle and it's only right that she pay them off which btw her ex husband helped a lot by generously allowing her to live under his roof, maybe at the personal cost of his own social (dating) life.
Paying off her own debts doesn't make her a hero, it doesn't make her a saint and it doesn't make her any less tacky than she is.

[selrahc4]

Originally Posted by Duchess

did someone (or it could've been her in an interview) say she stays with him at the house when she's in london.

What house is that? I thought he stayed at the palace when in London. Surely he wouldn't take her there, would he?

[corazon]

Originally Posted by selrahc4

What house is that? I thought he stayed at the palace when in London. Surely he wouldn't take her there, would he?

Sunninghill Park, i think

[selrahc4]

Originally Posted by corazon

Sunninghill Park, i think

Yes, but that's not in London.

[Bella]

Originally Posted by corazon

Sunninghill Park, i think

I thought he sold Sunninghill Park and was living at Royal Lodge or something. I believe it was one of the late Queen Mother's residences. I recall reading that he was spending alot of money renovating it.