JAN MOIR: Andrew is utterly irredeemable but Fergie is so much worse. Her late-night emails to me say it all--
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Of course, Andrew is appalling and utterly irredeemable – but at least he never pretended to be anything other than what he is; an entitled oik in ancestral ermine.
In many ways, Fergie is so much worse. Always so pious! Always banging on about her charitable deeds, the privations of being a single mother and how hard she has worked to settle her debts – except we now learn it was the late Queen Elizabeth who quietly paid off much of them.
And the D of Y was always praising her dull, princessy daughters to the skies, as if they were a combination of Cinderella and Little Orphan Annie; a dynamic pair of go-getters who had risen above the ashes and adversity of their circumstances to triumph on their own merits in an uncaring world.
Whereas the reality is that Beatrice and Eugenie were raised on a buffering cushion of shady money and dodgy diamonds, and remain a pair of toothy poshos who have achieved absolutely nothing in life, except an ability to keep out of trouble – a trait their parents must now envy.
Is it wrong to suggest that now the fig leaf of her lady bountiful act has been blown away in this torrent of revelations, Fergie is finally and unflinchingly exposed as a raging, entitled madam with a taste for fine wines, ski chalets, designer clothes and with a retinue of obliging staff she could never afford? And all this while encouraging the public to donate to the charities and good causes she propounds?
And she is still at it.