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World falling apart around you? Ex-husband arrested? Here's the answer

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ferry23 Fri 20-Feb-26 09:43:45

I've started a new thread because the existing AMW thread is dealing with the loftier side of things.

"I haven't got any money" seems to be a phrase that means different things to different folk.

It's reported that allegedly, Sarah Ferguson is experiencing deep personal trauma. Apparently homeless and with no known source of regular income she has ...

"...spent a few days with friends in the French Alps and is now thought to be in the United Arab Emirates".

Life's a bitch isn't it?

Tuliptree Fri 20-Feb-26 18:17:57

Ladyleftfieldlover

Two questions:

Apparently Andy’s body guards went to the police station with him. What did they do all day?

Would you put money on him jetting off at the weekend to a far-flung desert kingdom?

No I wouldn’t put money on it - the tide has well and truly turned. I would bet however that his current protection officers are very clear as to whom they are answerable

Maremia Fri 20-Feb-26 18:22:47

What has happened to the Queen's corgis? Didn't AMW offer to look after them.
Sorry about the digression, but some of you might know.

NotSpaghetti Fri 20-Feb-26 18:25:44

ferry23 - please don't knock RA lectures!
😱

ferry23 Fri 20-Feb-26 18:28:29

NotSpaghetti

ferry23 - please don't knock RA lectures!
😱

I'm not knocking them at all. I was merely comparing my rather crass and irrelevant musings with a far weightier and more erudite form of communicating with one's peers.

Bea65 Fri 20-Feb-26 18:31:37

On INSTA , someone has posted their father worked at the Palace in the 70s and said Andy’s behaviour is the tip of an iceberg Allegedly…
Several have requested further info…and more posters say AMW would /could flee to DUBAI, where he would be welcomed and safe…
Ugh🙈

Iam64 Fri 20-Feb-26 18:35:52

I read that Sarah Ferguson claimed to be looking after the corgis, heaven help them - we must hope some servant stepped in

Tuliptree Fri 20-Feb-26 18:37:17

Iam64

I read that Sarah Ferguson claimed to be looking after the corgis, heaven help them - we must hope some servant stepped in

It would always have been a servants job wouldn’t it? Thank goodness

Grandmafrench Fri 20-Feb-26 18:54:22

I saw a photo of the dogs last week - they were being walked by a staff member. I bet the relief was palpable, poor little souls. When you grew up as the pampered pets of a Queen of the realm, it can’t have done much for Corgi street cred’ to find you’d been re-housed with the itinerant Paedo formerly known as Prince!

Iam64 Fri 20-Feb-26 18:58:43

Grandmafrench 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Calendargirl Fri 20-Feb-26 19:18:04

Maremia

What has happened to the Queen's corgis? Didn't AMW offer to look after them.
Sorry about the digression, but some of you might know.

Sorry to sound unfeeling, but I think the Royals have more to worry about at the moment than the fate of the corgis.

I think they’ll be ok though, they’ll be living it up in the Sandringham grounds.

🐶(no corgi available).

Freya5 Fri 20-Feb-26 19:37:16

Vile comments. Not a fan of Fergie at all, but she has been accused of nothing, yet you all malign and denigrate her. Because of course you on GN are all seeing. This is very juicy for the anti monarchist on here. Do you know all your own family's secrets.
Be careful, slander can be answerable in a court of law.

Tuliptree Fri 20-Feb-26 19:45:23

Freya5

Vile comments. Not a fan of Fergie at all, but she has been accused of nothing, yet you all malign and denigrate her. Because of course you on GN are all seeing. This is very juicy for the anti monarchist on here. Do you know all your own family's secrets.
Be careful, slander can be answerable in a court of law.

Well firstly it would be libel not slander Secondly she’d have to prove reputations damage - good luck with that. - she took her daughters to have lunch with him shortly after his release - he was a convicted paedophile . I don’t think any of my family have dark secrets but that’s irrelevant anyway. We’re not the royal family and have had none of their completely unearned privilege.

sixandahalf Fri 20-Feb-26 19:52:14

Freya5

Vile comments. Not a fan of Fergie at all, but she has been accused of nothing, yet you all malign and denigrate her. Because of course you on GN are all seeing. This is very juicy for the anti monarchist on here. Do you know all your own family's secrets.
Be careful, slander can be answerable in a court of law.

Have you read the Lownie book at all?

Maybe some of us aren't anti.....just disgusted.

imaround Fri 20-Feb-26 19:53:49

I wonder if she signed an NDA when they divorced? Because she may get desperate and someone is going to dangle a carrot, IMO.

M0nica Fri 20-Feb-26 19:53:50

The Princesses were several years above the age of consent, so in no danger. Not that I am defending SF's decision.

Tuliptree Fri 20-Feb-26 19:59:18

M0nica

The Princesses were several years above the age of consent, so in no danger. Not that I am defending SF's decision.

That’s not the point I was making - it wasn’t about her offering them up but about thinking any of them lunching with him was what anyone with a ‘reputation to lose’ would do. Csn you imagine allowing your daughters even of their age to be in his presence.? You’d wonder wouldn’t you at what was in his mind when he looked at them, where his hands were under the table yuk yuk yuk. She had no reputation to lose

Allsorts Fri 20-Feb-26 20:02:33

I doubt there is not much the daughters don’t know and they have very wealthy husbands, so money won’t be a problem..

Iam64 Fri 20-Feb-26 20:05:39

My daughter at 19 an 20 would have researched Epstein and said mum, what on earth are you thinking. He’s well dodgy.

Seriously, no one I’ve seen is suggesting Sarah F was in some way offering him her daughters, more that she wasn’t being a good role model.

Tuliptree Fri 20-Feb-26 20:06:37

Iam64

My daughter at 19 an 20 would have researched Epstein and said mum, what on earth are you thinking. He’s well dodgy.

Seriously, no one I’ve seen is suggesting Sarah F was in some way offering him her daughters, more that she wasn’t being a good role model.

Exactly

M0nica Fri 20-Feb-26 20:42:24

Tuliptree

Iam64

My daughter at 19 an 20 would have researched Epstein and said mum, what on earth are you thinking. He’s well dodgy.

Seriously, no one I’ve seen is suggesting Sarah F was in some way offering him her daughters, more that she wasn’t being a good role model.

Exactly

But this would have been nearly 20 years ago, when people were less likely to do such searches and much less was available online.

I would say given how dodgy SF herself is, I would think her DD's had decided that the best thing to do was go for the meal and see him as being another of her dodgy friends that usually came and went and of no interest to them. I mean he was nearly 40 years older than them.

Calendargirl Fri 20-Feb-26 21:46:50

As MOnica said, I assume Bea and Eugenie grew up knowing Mummy had loads of men friends.

From being little, there was Steve Wyatt, then the toe sucking bald ‘financial adviser’ whose name escapes me. Years later she was with some older Italian count who the press reckoned she would marry….and probably others.

Plus all the time, she and Andrew were still ‘together’ a lot of the time.

The two girls must have had a strange childhood in many ways.

Allira Fri 20-Feb-26 21:47:01

nanna8

Dubai is alright. Very friendly people,too. I’m sure Andy would fit in there and he could just disappear in a puff of sand.

Who needs to go to the Alps?
Isn't there snow and skiing in Dubai?
Even penguins if you want your photo taken with Pingu!

Tuliptree Fri 20-Feb-26 22:26:33

Yes Dubai lovely as long as you’re not gay or a migrant worker ( as opposed to an ex pat) . Also not too keen on extra marital sex ( unless you’re a member of the ruling family)

M0nica Fri 20-Feb-26 23:15:40

Tuliptree

Yes Dubai lovely as long as you’re not gay or a migrant worker ( as opposed to an ex pat) . Also not too keen on extra marital sex ( unless you’re a member of the ruling family)

Shouldn't cause AMW any problems. We have no reason to think he is gay or an immigrant worker and he is a member of a ruling family and I believe the ruling family in Dubai usually extend to members of other ruling families, the same privileges they reserve for themselves.

barmcake Sat 21-Feb-26 06:10:20

Heartbreaking! I'm going to start a go-fund-me page. I'm sure you can all spare a bit from your winter fuel allowance.