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Understanding Sarah Ferguson’s loans

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violetpink · 19/10/2025 20:27

Why did she have to borrow money from Epstein, and others I believe?
Andrew is super wealthy and I’m sure she’s made money from her Duchess title, such as talk shows and products she’s endorsed.
i just can’t understand her loans. And why anyone would give her one. And why she has debt.
Hopefully some of you know why.
She lives freely with Andrew so no overheads there. Surely it’s a great no no to borrow money from friends.

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eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 20/10/2025 12:51

Off with their heads...

Crikeyalmighty · 20/10/2025 13:09

We have got a house /estate literally across the road from us ( ours by the way is a rented 4 bed stone semi ) this estate was bought 4 years ago for £6 million - they have been doing bits of work on it ever since ( and it was very nice indeed as it was) and I have never seen anyone live there for more than 4 days , twice a year . I find it incredibly distasteful with the world as it is that people simply burn cash and I have no problem with wealth in general - but wasting food to that level is disgusting

PinkPanther57 · 20/10/2025 14:26

Crikeyalmighty · 20/10/2025 13:09

We have got a house /estate literally across the road from us ( ours by the way is a rented 4 bed stone semi ) this estate was bought 4 years ago for £6 million - they have been doing bits of work on it ever since ( and it was very nice indeed as it was) and I have never seen anyone live there for more than 4 days , twice a year . I find it incredibly distasteful with the world as it is that people simply burn cash and I have no problem with wealth in general - but wasting food to that level is disgusting

If you are worried about that what about the 51 pieces of excess luggage she brought back on a jet from New York. Lownie says a baggage handler said 'not even Joan Collins has this much'. Thousands of pounds of stuff all itemised by Lownie.

Mind you if you Harry and Meghan under the microscope probably not that dissimilar. Tony Blair, again according to Lownie, used an RAF jet costing 100k for a family holiday to Egypt.

Andrew too using private jets and helicopters willy nilly to play golf apparently - even to go London to Oxford - about 56 miles - leaving jets waiting for him to finish his round. Perks of job for many a CEO etc too though.

Gowlett · 20/10/2025 14:33

PP57, yup. It’s all very Nouveau…
Which is not what the RF is about.

That’s why I mentioned H&M, too.
The baby shower was the beginning of the end…

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 14:40

Aside from Queen Elizabeth who I believe did the very best she could and who was never supposed to be Queen in the first place, I have very little time for any of them. They aren't elected, are entitled, arrogant, self serving, clueless about what actually goes on in the world, hypocritical, lazy, show up for the odd photo op to make THEMSELVES look good. This utter bollocks that Charles and Camilla must be revered due to their position is just that - utter bollocks. Charles was friends with Jimmy Savile! (Oh I can hear the naysayers - but he didn't know he was a paedo - bullcrap!)

I am sick to death of seeing people ride around in gold carriages when folk are homeless and can't afford their bills, excuses and pardons being given to people for criminal offences and exceptions being made to the law because of a fancy title. It is wrong no matter what way you choose to look at it.

Florencesndzebedee · 20/10/2025 14:43

EverybodyLTB · 19/10/2025 20:42

I only recall from what I’ve read over the years, no idea the sources.

She spends disgusting amounts on things she doesn’t even need eg. A house that she’d rent at crazy money (10k pcm or something) then still just stay at royal lodge with Andy Pandy and never set foot in the place. It would be filled with fresh flowers and have staff, cleaners etc. unused laundry being washed, food stocked that nobody will eat, and she’s always had drivers and ladies maid types, there’s been lots of history of having 10-12 staff on the go at once and them not being paid for months at a time.

Holidays she books and doesn’t turn up to, but again they’re things like luxury villas with staff and massages and treatments get booked in but nobody gets cancelled it all just ticks over and the bills come in at the end.

I remember reading that she likes the table set out with a full roast of an evening with all the options so say a whole chicken, a side of beef, and a rack of lamb, then all the trimmings - but then when nobody is actually around for dinner and it just sits there and goes cold and isn’t even given to staff or put in Tupperware, it’s binned! There’s no effort to check round if anyone like her daughters or whoever will be eating, she just says it better be done to a high standard and look like a massive feast, just in case. That might be salacious bullshit I have no idea, but it made me sick to read.

🤣 where on earth did you read this? It’s pretty ludicrous.

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 14:47

A journalist on LBC pointed out this morning that the treatment of Prince Harry is absolutely absurd, considering Andrew's behaviour. Says a hell of lot about the public in my opinion.

Pedallleur · 20/10/2025 14:48

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 14:40

Aside from Queen Elizabeth who I believe did the very best she could and who was never supposed to be Queen in the first place, I have very little time for any of them. They aren't elected, are entitled, arrogant, self serving, clueless about what actually goes on in the world, hypocritical, lazy, show up for the odd photo op to make THEMSELVES look good. This utter bollocks that Charles and Camilla must be revered due to their position is just that - utter bollocks. Charles was friends with Jimmy Savile! (Oh I can hear the naysayers - but he didn't know he was a paedo - bullcrap!)

I am sick to death of seeing people ride around in gold carriages when folk are homeless and can't afford their bills, excuses and pardons being given to people for criminal offences and exceptions being made to the law because of a fancy title. It is wrong no matter what way you choose to look at it.

but tourists???? Billions flowing in apparently just to breathe the same air the RF have exhaled. The Christmas Walk!! Just like us.

Differentforgirls · 20/10/2025 14:48

Rhaidimiddim · 19/10/2025 21:06

Is Andrew super wealthy?
She got a mere £3m in her divorce, as I recall.

"mere". 😱

GnomeDePlume · 20/10/2025 14:49

PA & SF thought they would get a pampered, self-indulgent life. Except the world changed and people started to ask what the RF is for.

PA & SF are relics of an earlier age. Just being royal isnt enough. They needed to work to get respect and neither of them seems to have known how to do this.

Neither is particularly intelligent or moral. They ran with a 'fast' crowd which required money or respectability. They have taken money from various sources without looking beyond the cash. Now they have neither cash or respectability.

RainbowBagels · 20/10/2025 14:56

teacupzs · 20/10/2025 01:27

Spending like a billionaire with a millionaires budget.

How come neither of them ever learned their lesson and reined it in?

Because they were bailed out either by TLQ or by shady billionnaires like Epstein, and possibly used for money laundering (selling their marital home, gifted to them by TLQ)for an inflated price, when it was then left to ruin. Honestly. This must have been happening for years under everyones noses and no one in the RF did a thing about it. Im glad this is putting all of their secrecy under pressure.

ConstitutionHill · 20/10/2025 15:01

PinkPanther57 · 20/10/2025 00:36

All the luggage for a long weekend away in Europe - 25 suitcases & another plane. Or something like that?

Imagining in with a chance with Tiger Woods & John F K Jr in past & Kevin Costner (?) Extraordinary. It’s a different world.

Are you saying Fergie had a chance at dating Tiger Woods??

PinkPanther57 · 20/10/2025 15:09

ConstitutionHill · 20/10/2025 15:01

Are you saying Fergie had a chance at dating Tiger Woods??

She thought so, it would seem. She apparently invited him on a villa holiday and said 'I am going to follow him around the course for a bit and see how I get on' (Lownie).

Kevin Costner, too, 'she plagued him with raunchy phone calls' according to Lownie. She seems to have had a lot of self confidence and belief...

PinkPanther57 · 20/10/2025 15:11

GnomeDePlume · 20/10/2025 14:49

PA & SF thought they would get a pampered, self-indulgent life. Except the world changed and people started to ask what the RF is for.

PA & SF are relics of an earlier age. Just being royal isnt enough. They needed to work to get respect and neither of them seems to have known how to do this.

Neither is particularly intelligent or moral. They ran with a 'fast' crowd which required money or respectability. They have taken money from various sources without looking beyond the cash. Now they have neither cash or respectability.

The digital world means things come back to haunt. Emails don't disappear and if too many people have sight, things will inevitably leak.

Whatflavourjellybabyisnice · 20/10/2025 15:20

She needs therapy. I'm not saying that to be unkind or mocking, either.

Hanschristiananderson · 20/10/2025 15:25

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 14:47

A journalist on LBC pointed out this morning that the treatment of Prince Harry is absolutely absurd, considering Andrew's behaviour. Says a hell of lot about the public in my opinion.

Harry is his own kind of appalling.

Rhaidimiddim · 20/10/2025 15:33

Differentforgirls · 20/10/2025 14:48

"mere". 😱

Diana got £17m plus 400K a year and a Kensington Palace dwelling.

Although the "mere" was ironic, £3 isn't a lot if you aspire to a jetsetter lifestyle and are mixing with people for whom £3m just about covers the annual staff bill. Anybody trying to "keep up" in that milieu would have got through £3m in no time

PrincessSophieFrederike · 20/10/2025 15:52

MaturingCheeseball · 20/10/2025 08:41

She did have a bum family: as pp said her dm ran off with a polo player and if I remember rightly Major Ron had some involvement with ladies of ill-repute…

I suppose that might be par for the course in those circles but SF has always seemed very eccentric and ungrounded.

In some ways a similar background to Diana, or for that matter, Edwina Mountbatten..the difference is that those 2 could be very selfish but redeemed themselves with genuine philanthropy. Sarah could have too but has rejected that path

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 16:02

Hanschristiananderson · 20/10/2025 15:25

Harry is his own kind of appalling.

No he isn't. Being a sex offender and lying about it and then being exposed is appalling. Exposing this dreadful family for who they are is nowhere even on the same scale as appalling. The only reason people find Harry appalling is because he DARED to speak out against these people who seem to be untouchable. Revering them IS appalling!

Hanschristiananderson · 20/10/2025 16:23

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 16:02

No he isn't. Being a sex offender and lying about it and then being exposed is appalling. Exposing this dreadful family for who they are is nowhere even on the same scale as appalling. The only reason people find Harry appalling is because he DARED to speak out against these people who seem to be untouchable. Revering them IS appalling!

Speak out? He’s never said a word about Andrew or Sarah!! He’s whined and whinged about Pa not giving him limitless amounts of cash and his jealousy of William. He’s never highlighted abuse in the family or mismanagement of funds. He wants more of those funds for himself and his grasping wife.

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 16:25

Hanschristiananderson · 20/10/2025 16:23

Speak out? He’s never said a word about Andrew or Sarah!! He’s whined and whinged about Pa not giving him limitless amounts of cash and his jealousy of William. He’s never highlighted abuse in the family or mismanagement of funds. He wants more of those funds for himself and his grasping wife.

As he should be entitled to after his 'pa' and wicked stepmother saw the offing of his mother when he was 12. And by that I mean destroying a woman's sanity until she left and very possibly having something to do with her death. Even without conspiracy theories, Harry is entitled to a hell of a lot more than that witch currently on the throne. I didn't say he said anything about Andrew or Sarah either - but speaking out against the family isn't a cardinal sin the way Andrew's is. Charles has done f all to justify his or the royals worth -which is funded by the tax payer!

OnlyOnAFriday · 20/10/2025 16:29

I think she’s just a grade A entitled grifter. Andrew won’t be as rich as Epstein, etc and she will see that level of lifestyle and want it and has the brass neck to ask for money.

Hanschristiananderson · 20/10/2025 16:31

YourBrickTiger · 20/10/2025 16:25

As he should be entitled to after his 'pa' and wicked stepmother saw the offing of his mother when he was 12. And by that I mean destroying a woman's sanity until she left and very possibly having something to do with her death. Even without conspiracy theories, Harry is entitled to a hell of a lot more than that witch currently on the throne. I didn't say he said anything about Andrew or Sarah either - but speaking out against the family isn't a cardinal sin the way Andrew's is. Charles has done f all to justify his or the royals worth -which is funded by the tax payer!

No, that doesn't mean he's entitled to millions of tax payers money for life on top of what he already has which is a substantial fortune.

CharlieKirkRIP · 20/10/2025 16:43

CalmShaker · 19/10/2025 20:55

I'm not sure the degree of truth but I once read she is actually bald and has a wig weaved using 8 golden lion tamarins at cost of 80k a headpiece

I can confirm this, having actually spotted her out in the wild.

Understanding Sarah Ferguson’s loans
landlordhell · 20/10/2025 16:53

CharlieKirkRIP · 20/10/2025 16:43

I can confirm this, having actually spotted her out in the wild.

😂😂😂😂😂😂