Options for Sarah to recover from the 'Cash for Access' scandal


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Bertie I am so sorry to hear of your pain and suffering..I lost my own mother in January and it is painful beyond description at times, but I am so happy that you have chosen to persevere.

I think what prevents Sarah from seeking advice from the right people is that she does not surround herself with the type of people who might have a positive impact on her life. She is a gregarious woman who likes high living and the party life..and she probably attracts hangers-on and like minded people.( Remember that ghastly "financial advisor" John Bryan from awhile back?)

She may need to seek out new friends. :sad:
 
I also lost my mother and have had a very difficult time.
We really do not know what Sarah is like or what her upbringing has done to her. Nobody knows, until they have walked in their shoes.
 
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Can it get any worse for Fergie? - Telegraph

This article gives a good assessment of Sarah's problems--partly critical but with some sympathetic quotes.

I was thinking about Sarah's behaviour and I don't think she's bipolar (I don't know enough about it, though). I think like some of you have said, a lot of it comes down to insecurity. People turn to excessive behaviour, like over-eating or over-spending, when they can't deal with some reality of their lives. It's like a quick fix and an avoidance tactic at the same time. I think this because I have my own experience with this, but in a different way from Sarah.

I think Sarah is trying to avoid facing her feelings about being unworthy as a person. Maybe she should get over those feelings, but they are obviously real to her, and they seem to go back to her relationship with her mother. My guess is that Sarah ignored her debts because she only thinks she matters as a person because she's Sarah, Duchess of York. She probably thinks if she has to go back to being ordinary Sarah Ferguson, no one will love her.
 
Duchess of York makes all her staff redundant to help her finances - Telegraph
A spokeswoman for Prince Andrew said: "The Duke of York is very supportive of the Duchess during this difficult time."

Some might say that Prince Andrew is obligated to take over Sarah's finances because otherwise she'll do something reckless. Maybe, but he doesn't have to release a statement that he's very supportive of her. I'm interpreting that statement to mean that Prince Andrew is taking care of Sarah because he wants to and not just because he feels obligated. I just don't believe that Andrew does all these things for Sarah (lets her live with him, take over her finances) because he feels it's his duty but is secretly resentful. I think he married Sarah with the intention of being faithful to her for good, and whatever she's done, he's never really changed.
 
Well to be quite fair, it isn't always Andrew who has to bail her out. It's The Queen, or her children, or even her childrens boyfriends.
But I can thoroughly understand your point.
Sarah wants to be the one, in the room looking outside.

People keep saying that Andrew and his family are taking care of her because else she might do something careless? I presume that means go to press and tell family secrets?
She must know some real horrible stuff if they keep paying for her.
 
rmay286 said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...her-staff-redundant-to-help-her-finances.html...I think he married Sarah with the intention of being faithful to her for good, and whatever she's done, he's never really changed.
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Interesting point.
I wonder, however, if PA released the support statement to get the media to back off and give Sarah a chance to recover so she can MOVE ON and OUT. That would have been prudent.

Lumut, seems that SOMEBODY is always bailing that woman out. I admire her for doing it the first time--almost entirely on her own, however, it keeps happening. It will be interesting to see if Sarah breaks the cycle here.
 
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I don't understand what could be so bad, that the royals are willing to go to any length.
Even if she produces a tell all biography, it won't sell that well and it'll be nothing original.
Also, if The Queen didn't pay her off, I honestly don't think she'd go to the press, because she'd damage the family her daughters are a part of.
 
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I don't know if it's right to start a new thread about this, but i've been wondering since the Cash For Acces scandal.
Many people have said that the royals are keeping Sarah "in check" by paying for her.
But what if they hadn't paid her off, would she write a tell all book, releasing all the information she knows? :)
 
:previous:Unlikely. She does have some sort of confidentiality agreement with the BRF. But I for one, would devour it!! :popcorn:
 
That would hurt and embarrass Andrew and the girls, and I can't see her deliberately doing that now. :ermm:
 
If she didn't have children with Andrew I'm sure that at least she would have tried to do it. But I doubt that she would want to hurt her own daughters like that.
 
She wrote an autobiography in 1997. I don't know if it's tell all, but I remember that it ends with her poking around the refrigerator looking for food, or something to that effect.
 
She'll publish a tell-all if she wants money.
But that would be hurting Andrew and it seems like the last thing she wants to do is hurt Andrew.
 
IF and this is a BIG IF she does it, she'll sanitize it for Andrew and the girl's protection. However, I do not see her printing anything that we as Royal Stalkers don't already know.


(Unless it's some bomb-dropping revelations like Prince Philip likes to dress in women's clothing and high heels and sing "God Save the Queen" to Queen's rendition or something. . . .)
 
She's got a habit of embarrassing herself but a tell all would be nothing short of suicide for her. Aside from the damage it would do to her daughters, and it wold whether she sanitized it or not, she'd find it all but impossible to live in the UK for several years, maybe even ever. She couldn't be banned obviously but it'd b hell on Earth.
 
She tells quite a bit, but she doesn't tell anything damaging about the Royal Family. At least in print, she's loyal to the Queen. The only people who really get a dressing-down are the so-called "gray men"--the courtiers in the Palace who tried to mold her into a princess. She talks about the separation and the depression that she went into after it.

EmpressRouge said:
She wrote an autobiography in 1997. I don't know if it's tell all, but I remember that it ends with her poking around the refrigerator looking for food, or something to that effect.
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If there's been an agreement made with the Palace in exchange for Andrew's support from his office, I think we can be reasonably sure that an autobiography is banned. The fact that she hasn't said anything public since the Oprah interview is telling.
 
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I would've thought there was some kind of agreement when they got divorced. You don't leave such a family without a gag I would think.
 
I think that the fact that she's the mother of the Queen's grandchildren means a lot in this. The Queen might or might not help Sarah out of the goodness of her heart; but I'm pretty sure that she would do anything to protect her grandchildren from embarrassment. Embarrassment doesn't mean having horrible stuff revealed about the family; it could mean not ending the drip-drip-drip of caustic stories about her grand-daughters' mother.

Lumutqueen said:
She must know some real horrible stuff if they keep paying for her.
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No, there was no gag order when Sarah and Andrew divorced. Diana had one as part of her settlement, though.

sliver_bic said:
I would've thought there was some kind of agreement when they got divorced. You don't leave such a family without a gag I would think.
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I suppose if Sarah wanted money bad enough, SHE could write a tell all book, but it would be another incredibly stupid thing she would do. Andrew and their daughters would be embarrassed and Sarah would lose support from her biggest ally, Andrew. She's already lost credibility and a scandalous book would put another nail in her tattered reputation plus the Queen and Andrew could withdraw the monetary support she's now getting. Sarah would be left in a huge lurch. You don't want to bite the hand that feeds you or pays your debts.:whistling:
 
I'm of the opinion...and this is strictly my opinion, that Andrew does it because his daughters demand it of him. It wouldn't surprise me if they don't turn the thumb screws quite often if he doesn't help take care of their adored mother. He's in a spot for sure. Take care of Sarah and keep the girls happy and look like a cuckold to everyone else for doing it, or kick her out on her keester and have them spitting mad at him for years, or longer, while everyone else applauds him for having finally grown a spine. Not to mention having to answer to HM every time Sarah hits the wall in a most spectacular way. I'm sure there must be days when he wonders what the heck he was thinking when he married her, no matter how much he may still care about her.
 
I believe that you are right about the daughters but if he looks like a cuckold, wasn´t he cuckolded very publicly by Sarah that seems to be the reason he divorced her.
I think when he first married her it was because opposites attract, she is bubbly and full of spirits and he seems so sombre and rather humourless or at least that seems to be the side he shows in public.
I think the sorriest person would be the Queen for giving her permission to the marriage and she really seemed to like Sarah. Prince Philip´s opinion on all this would be interesting indeed.
I hope that everything turns out well for Sarah and that she starts being sensible but I have my doubts that she is able to be.
 
I don't think Sarah would write a tell-all book, regardless of her circumstances. I don't think she would hurt her beloved daughters that way, or Andrew, or the Queen. For all her faults, I don't think she has a malicious bone in her body.
 
Roslyn said:
I don't think Sarah would write a tell-all book, regardless of her circumstances. I don't think she would hurt her beloved daughters that way, or Andrew, or the Queen. For all her faults, I don't think she has a malicious bone in her body.
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I agree, Roslyn. Sarah has done some very foolish things, but I remember that she paid off all of her debts before and worked hard to do so. From memory, she wasn't well treated by the Family when she left it, unlike Diana, and I think that it's to Andrew's credit that he's given her a home and help over the years, and not only because she's his children's mother.

I've heard Sarah speak in the past about the Family and she was graceful and pleasant about them all, praising them for their hard work. It's unlikely that she'd betray any confidences at this stage.

As for her recent silliness and inappropriate behaviour, that's nothing to what I think about the scurrilous newspaper reporter who coaxed a drunken women to humiliate herself and impugn the integrity of a member of the Royal Family.
 
The trouble is Sarah is a spender and always has been. She likes the good life and would no more tighten her belt in this time of economic gloom than step on board the Titanic. Her daughters adore her, Prince Philip loathes her, where does that leave Andrew? Somewhere in the middle who has never moved on with his life. It is a shame he never married again like Camilla's husband did. Sarah's meal ticket has always been her title DUCHESS OF YORK which she will never let go of ... not for all the tea in China!

Fergie's billionaire bail-out: it looks like the duchess is really feeling the pinch of those £2m debts | Mail Online
 
As long as there are people who curry the favour of anyone with a title, especially royal, and as long as Sarah hangs on to the name Duchess of York she will always be able to find a helping hand and will never change her ways. In her defence I really believe she is unable to change, it is part of her makeup.
It is very strange how a title of any kind, even an ex title can make very sensible business people do all kinds of things, they give huge amounts of money to charity, not always because they are fond of that charity or are even really charitable in their hearts, but the idea that it may lead to a title is irresistible. Strange and I will never understand it. I wonder what these people would think of someone with a title who does not use it.
 
There appear to be plenty of people with the financial acumen to help her sort out her financial mess but you have to wonder why she had to reach near-bankruptcy and public humiliation before they stepped in.

Anyway, from the Daily Mail, here's some rich, famous and not-so-famous friends...

Fergie's billionaire bail-out: it looks like the duchess is really feeling the pinch of those £2m debts | Mail Online

One tycoon's given her a £160,000 Bentley. Another's lent her his jet. Now she's partying with Branson on his private island...

On Thursday, she [boarded] the Gulfstream private jet owned by her longtime friend Peter Brant, the U.S. newsprint tycoon. Once on board, she was flown...from his Connecticut home, where she has been staying for several days, to the 60th birthday party of Sir Richard Branson on his private Necker Island in the Caribbean.

...yet another tycoon, venture capitalist Jon Moulton, was also riding to her rescue. Now running a £200 million private equity fund, the former Coopers & Lybrand insolvency specialist has quietly agreed to see what he can do to unscramble Fergie's financial affairs.

So just how does businessman Jon Moulton intend to replace the missing millions and put Fergie, now 50, on the road to solvency? No one is quite sure. 'The trouble is there is no "Brand Fergie" any longer,' declares a major public relations figure who has been consulted about her rehabilitation...Who on earth would buy anything with the Duchess of York's name backing it at the moment?
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^ Gosh, I hope she's not onto something weird again...:ohmy: Thank you for the info, Warren!
Wonder what P Andrew has to say about that.:rolleyes:
 
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