Well said. I said last year in a post that even though B & E are Sarah's daughters, the Queen could step in at any time and stop anyone that puts a royal princess at risk.
Alex - if this were to happen, do you think that the Queen will or should strip her of her title as well? I really think that is the only reason people still interview her: the title. With the title out of the way, it would greatly reduce the number of opportunities she would have to bring down herself or anyone else.
Amy
The short answer, Amy, is that I have no way of knowing what will happen, and so I can only speculate:
My way of thinking is this: Sarah's conduct, by involving her daughters in her 'Finding Sarah' interview, particularly when Eugenie was filmed in tears, has reached a new low point which I think will prove to be a watershed. If it was just Sarah ALONE making a fool of herself in her interviews I think that the senior members of the BRF [by which I mean the Queen and Prince Philip] and their advisors would just roll their eyes and shrug their shoulders (metaphorically speaking) and say 'that awful girl, here we go again....' and be content to take no further action: Sarah is no longer a member of the BRF and only Andrew appears to have any contact with her....
But Eugenie's tears on camera will IMHO prove to be the 'straw that broke the camel's back'. Suddenly, the interview is NOT just about 'non-royal Sarah', but about two members of the BRF as well i.e. Beatrice and Eugenie.......
It is the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and whilst that might sound some months off to some of our forum members here, I can advise you that plans for the various celebrations are pretty well advanced. I am absolultely sure that those working on the plans will be striving to make sure that there are no 'disruptions' etc and I am sure that they will all see Sarah and her ability to pop up again and again in the media in what I will politely call controversial circumstances will be seen as a risk too far. The BRF is at Balmoral now and I can almost here Prince Philip saying 'ENOUGH!!! This cannot go on any longer. Not content with continuing to drag herself through the mud, she is now involving our grandchildren as well.....and it's got to stop. We have just got to deprive this woman of the oxygen of publicity'
And then I think that the Queen and her advisors will reflect that the BRF is enjoying quite a positive image at the moment, mainly due, I think, to the 'feelgood factors' engendered by William and Catherine's wedding and that of Zara and Mike. But it is a delicate balance, and any further 'antics' by Sarah i.e. which end up in the media could undo all the good positive PR of this summer [which is actually something of an achievement, because during recessions, the BRF is often subject to (unfair) attacks as an extravagance the country could do without]
And so I think that right now the Queen will be sitting down to map out a way of making Sarah's public profile 'disappear'. She will need money to exist [and I suspect that apart from the fact that the BRF does not generally like their name being 'milked for money', which is what Sarah has effectively doing since her divorce] they will also realise that Sarah's ability to earn the large sums she did previously will probably have been scuppered by the events of recent years: in other words, she can no longer 'earn' sufficient sums to finance her lifestyle - or indeed any form of lifestyle. Thus the BRF hold all the cards at the end of the day. If she is made to leave Royal Lodge [which I think she will], she will still need housing and financial support and the BRF is in a stonger position that Sarah is over this: and so yes, I think that they will be able to insist that in return for providing Sarah with a roof over her head and a modest allowance, that she stops using the style of 'Sarah, Duchess of York'. This could be done either by straighforward legal agreement something along the lines of: ' In consideration for providing me, Sarah Margaret Ferguson with accommodation and an allowance, I hereby agree that henceforth I will no longer use the syle of 'Sarah Duchess of York' or, as people have said above, by issue of new Letters Patent.
Only my thoughts, but I really do feel that the BRF's tolerance of Sarah popping up in the media has now come to an end.
Alex