Sarah Ferguson is the poster girl of anti-monarchists. She is the prime example of someone totally and utterly ill-equipped for a role in public life, who nevertheless got one by dint of marrying someone born to the right person. Having spent her entire adulthood cannoning from one self-made catastrophe to another, you would have thought that even she might appreciate this now. And yet we hear she is bracing herself for a comeback.
The new tranche of Epstein files deliver one hideous blow after another to the former Duchess of York. She is shown to be venal: again and again she presses Epstein for handouts. She even manages to get him to foot the bill for her, Beatrice and Eugenie’s flights costing $14,080.10 in order to welcome him out of prison in 2008. And there is a suggestion that she granted access to Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace in exchange for the cash.
