Sarah Ferguson posted the above Instagram the day before Prince Andrew’s BBC interview aired. Perhaps she honestly thought that Andrew had done the right thing in giving the interview, and that this would be a turning point and maybe the Jeffrey Epstein headlines would stop. Yeah. Not so much. Fergie has always done a lot to help Andrew and help his image, and she was one of the people in his ear this summer after Epstein’s mysterious death. They went on vacation together in Spain, and they were seen together all over the place. Perhaps she even thinks they’ll eventually remarry. But – Fergie wasn’t even in England when Andrew’s interview aired. She was in Saudi Arabia, complimenting Mohammed Bin Salman.
When Prince Andrew was sitting for car-crash interview about Epstein, Fergie was at the charity summit for Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
“Everyone has been so nice here in Riyadh; I think that comes from good leadership,” Fergie to Arab News. https://t.co/9rWuo5S2XX pic.twitter.com/W3GeGDxkrt
— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) November 18, 2019
Yep. And that’s not all. In one of the funniest pieces of royal gossip, it seems like even delusional Fergie now understands that Andrew’s interview was BAD. But it’s not his fault!
Friends of the Duchess of York have said the ‘buck stops’ with her ex-husband’s private secretary over the Newsnight interview that even she believes was a “car crash”. Multiple sources have told The Telegraph that the Duchess was staggered to return from a trip overseas to discover the interview with Newsnight had gone ahead. They said Amanda Thirsk, the Duke of York’s private secretary, should have steered the prince away from a 50-minute interview with Emily Maitlis – described as a ‘forensic interviewer’ – on the single subject of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and questions over whether he had sex with a teenager trafficked to Britain.
One source claimed: “The Duchess had no involvement. This has Amanda Thirsk’s hands all over it. The Duke is not very quick on his feet so how could Amanda put him up to it. Amanda was the one who pushed for it. Fifty minutes with anybody on the one subject is going to be difficult. Even Newsnight were flabbergasted.”
The source said that even the Duchess, who had expressed her support for her ex-husband in an Instagram post on Friday night in which she described him as a “giant of a principled man”, accepted the interview had been a ‘car crash’.
The second source said: “The Duchess was not involved. He [the Duke] has an office and you know who advises him. There is nothing wrong with doing television but it should have been as part of a wider documentary about the work he does. Nobody should be put up in front of a forensic interviewer for 50 minutes on a single topic.”
The source added: “I think the buck stops with Amanda and she knows that too. But she couldn’t push the Duke into doing something he would not want to do.”
“The Duke is not very quick on his feet…” It’s almost as if – hear me out – Andrew is a dull, moronic pervert who is easily manipulated by the people around him, whether that’s the Queen, Fergie, his private secretary or Jeffrey Epstein. It’s almost as if Andrew is too stupid, too privileged, too corrupt to continue on this way.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Instagram.
With the exception of Meghan (and Diana at her time), is there anyone in that family who can quickly think on their feet? Look at their interviews, some appear to be quite dumb!!!
This woman is as bad as her ex husband; probably as destructive as well
Nope. A bunch of inbreds who have never had to work for anything in their lives. A bad combination.
Yep, this is why I love watching Meghan’s speeches because she is so on another level from all the rest of them.
Princess Anne, probably.
@Lucy —- you are right about Princess Anne
Wait. Back up. While Randy Andy was giving the most shambolic interview in the history of the BBC – one that may (without hyperbole) be the final nail in the Royal Family’s coffin, his ex-wife in name only was literally RAISING MONEY FOR THE WORST F-ING MAN ON THE PLANET (now that Epstein’s gone, obvs).
Man, I’m so glad that Kate has the sense to let someone else close her car door (unlike gauche Americans), otherwise this family would just go to hell in a handbasket. 🙄
Correct – I doubt any of these people made the Dean’s list in college…at least fairly.
they’ve never had to learn otherwise. they are so coddled.
None of them are very bright (Meghan is the exception). Supposedly Charles is the smartest in his family, although that bar is very low.
I was just reminded of Princess Anne as well; Given what Charles has done, he cannot be as stupid as Andrew………Andrew seems to be really dumb, when you couple that with arrogance, you get another level of stupidity
Inbred dullard finds ingenious way to intensify own shit storm and turn it into a shit tornado.
@ Enny
I hate to disappoint you, but this family ain’t going nowhere. Not even when the Queen dies. They are too deeply entrenched in the fabric of UK culture and too entertaining to be genuinely threatened by this. Even now, at the height of the sh-t tornado, do a poll on support of the royal family and the results will shock you.
TRAN-WRECK TO THE EXTREME.
The current briefing from BP appears to be a variation of never explain and ‘dig your heels in chaps’ after the Horse has left the stable door via that car crash of an interview
These entitled, over privileged, workshy bigots really believe that their position and accidental births will save them. The audacity is outstanding. I hope the punishment directly correlates to Andy’s hubris. Pop corn at the ready….
Ha, so apparently he is so stupid he can’t even give consent and cannot discern between being manipulated and making a decision on his own?
Apparently, Andres is the VICTIM in all of this.
The Brits are trying to use an Americanism, and it doesn’t mean what they think it means.
If they are going to use the phrase “the buck stops with…”, they should know that the buck stops *with the person ultimately in charge*. If that’s not Andy, then Andy is not even in charge of his own employees and should thus stop wasting people’s time and retire to a cottage far, far away.
As long as that cottage is far away from teenage girls
Totally agree. He is finished and anything further, on Fergie’s part or his, is just lame, pathetic and dishonest damage control.
What is with that red headband?
LOL. Right? It’s placed so strangely on her forehead.
She looks like she’d be right at home at Grey Gardens.
What is with that entire look?? Some kind of sleeve thingy highlighting her upper arms.
If that’s what she was going for….
she just came from aerobics class…
They are all a bunch of racist idiots. I pity the children who will be raised by these fools, especially baby Archie.
He won’t be raised by Andrew and Fergie!
Per Chris Ship:
Separately,
OutwardBound UK
says it will hold a Board meeting this week “to discuss the Duke of York’s patronage. This is a matter for the Trustees”.
Prince Andrew’s daughter, Princess Beatrice, who is on the Board, will be asked to sit out of the meeting.
Good job papa.
Bea sitting out of the meeting is a formality given her interest. I suspect a lot of these companies have been doing their own due diligence or hired external experts whom have now determined the risk to be far too great.
Okay, serious stuff aside for a moment, WTF is she wearing in that photo? Good lord woman.
So on brand that Fergie was on a junket to the Middle East when this all happened. Yes Fergie, praise MBS he is really a model of leadership we should all appreciate.
I’m sure it is richly deserved for Amanda Thirsk to be thrown under the bus for this, but where else is the Duke of York going to find a true believer who thinks he walks on water? I read she was a banker for years before coming to work for him originally to oversee his finances (shudder).
I wonder how much they paid her to attend this charity summit and praise murderer MBS?
She’s an awful person too. And complicit in aiding a known abuser for her own personal gain. She too found friendship with Epstein “convenient” I bet just as “honourable” about it as her husband was.
Yes, never forget her modus operandi. As long as cold hard cash and prizes are in the offing she’ll lower herself to anything. The incident below took place right in the same time frame that Andrew was hanging out with post-conviction Epstein.
https://nypost.com/2010/05/24/sarah-ferguson-caught-demanding-750k-for-access-to-ex-prince-andrew/
Fergie is defo an enabler. She has been acting as Andy’s beard for nearly 30 years.
I was to young when this happened but why did these two get divorced? They seem perfect for each other.
I apologize because I have mentioned this book before on here but a juicy book out there from the 1990s that explained the Andy/Fergie marriage and separation in total detail was Fergie Confidential. It’s now an ebook that is pretty cheap on Amazon etc.
My take is they fell and love and got married quite fast (started dating summer 1985, engaged about 6 months later) and the wheels quickly fell off. Not very compatible, Andrew away a lot on his Navy work, he was boorish (surprise surprise) and was unkind to her, she was bored and got into the jet set lifestyle and started down her spendaholic path. Then ended up romantically involved with Steve Wyatt and John Bryan (the toe sucking guy). Basically the marriage was in tatters by the time Eugenie was born.
For whatever reason though the two of them always seem to have acted amicably through their separation, divorce, and long twilight era that sees her living in Royal Lodge with him and saying they are the happiest divorced couple in the world.
She cheated on him with several other men. She even took her toddler daughters on vacation with one of her lovers (an American fake-rich con artist she fell in love with) and she was photographed getting her toes sucked by her lover while the girls were right next to her. Smoking gun of smoking guns. She was called a disgrace to the family. When the pictures were published in the tabloids, she was at Balmoral with the family, and the newspapers were on the table when the family came down to breakfast. She was the ultimate train wreck. I think the Queen said they had to divorce. Apparently Andy didn’t believe she was cheating on him (even though she admitted it).
Thank you all. That is crazy I was to young to know the details although I remember e jokes about the toes. Odd they seem fine now
From what I understand he came to understand why she cheated as he was never at home, he pretty much ignored her – he’s been quoted as saying he didn’t blame her for cheating as he wasn’t an attentive husband.
They were already legally separated when she was on vacation with the ‘financial advisor’. It was those photos that made the Queen order the divorce instead of them staying separated indefinitely.
The first couple years of their marriage he was home 40 days or less.
It is my understanding, through many books I have read, Andrew really did not want to divorce Sarah.
They’re not a bright bunch, are they?
That Instagram post is a hot mess of stylistically tortured nonsense. We get on Meghan’s case for missing a comma here or a bit of flowery language there, but LOOK at this mess!
They both are trash and deserve each other. I used to feel sorry for Fergie and how she said she was bullied by the courtiers. But, now….toss them both overboard. And that Amanda lady is probably packing up her desk as we speak because she is toast.
Maybe Amanda is fighting back–latest DM exclusive is that it was actually FERGIE who was the mastermind behind the interview!
lol
I think Amanda is already out the door and glad to be free of the Yorks.
Dang, let’s throw Fergie under the bus, why don’t we, lol!
A “forensic interviewer.” Is that just the technical term for “an interviewer who’s done her research”?
These people are so dim that they should serve as a living reminder of why inbreeding is taboo. Don’t marry your first cousins, kids.
I’m not sure how they are using it here. To me, in the us, a forensic interviewer is someone trained to interview for the purpose of gathering evidence/investigating crime. As opposed to an interview for news purposes or a celebrity profile or whatever else. I don’t know if this journalist has a law enforcement background or if they are using it in a different way in UK.
“Forensics,” to me, means “really good/smart/detail-oriented when it comes to finding out the truth,” so I can’t understand why on earth they’re trying to put the narrative out there that this journalist is “forensic” in her work. If you’re trying to make it seem like she bamboozled him into saying things that weren’t good for him, or she hypnotized him into not being able to fully get out his denials, or she sensationalized and twisted what he did say to make it sound worse… then any of those adjectives would work better. Call her a tabloid reporter, call her sensationalizing, call her tricky and misleading with her questions, call her a “gotcha!” journalist. But basically saying “this interviewer is super committed to the truth and that’s unfair! Of course he would come off poorly when talking to someone who just wants to get at the truth!” then you’re just shooting yourself in the foot over and over again, each time you bring up “forensic interviewer.”
From my watching of UK crime shows, forensic journalist does seem to be a thing. i must confess I haven’t gotten a real answer as to what they do, but from the TV shows, they appear to be hired by people who are accused of crimes and work on getting exculpatory information. Don’t know if they then write about the case to sway public opinion or if they are producing material to be used at a trial or both.
I’m sure the Duke was prepped by his people for this interview with someone pretending to be Emily, asking him all kinds of questions that they thought she would ask. At least I hope that they did but the Duke is really the only person to blame for this debacle. He agreed to the interview because he’s an arrogant, entitled SOB.
She has aged horribly for 60! My God, she looks a good ten years older. What in hell has she been doing to herself to look this awful?
Being on a tireless grift for about 30 years will do a number on your face.
Bad genes I expect.
So basically EVERYBODY ELSE is to blame that lying pedo randy andy outed himself for how awful he~and the BRF~truly are??!! Sure, Jan.
If Fergie wasn’t a dreadful unsympathetic horrible person, I would feel sorry that she hitched her wagon to a raging narcissist sex trafficking train wreck. Her retirement plans were hit by the train wreck he caused and are on fire as we speak. But as they are who they are, I hope she is stuck in the Swiss mountains with him complaining about the second rate caviar while he rages about how his come down is everyone else’s fault. He will probably never go, but he belongs in jail. Never need to ask again why the daughters seem to have such awful taste in men..
This is just pushing the narrative that it’s the fault of the incompetent private secretary who will take the fall.
WOW! I hadn’t heard any of this. I was reading that post she put up, and my mouth had dropped open, and that was before I got the part about the butcher, MBS. I honestly do not know what to say.
Redheads who don’t avoid the sun will age poorly.. and god she is a horrible person.