Fergie living with Andrew

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As Fergie has lived with Andrew for a couple of decades why is it reported that they are now looking for separate residences?
It is not as if the next house will be too small for them to reside together.
And surely financially this is a better resolution?

I would image King Charles would have put some sort of conditions in his agreement to pay and keep Andrew. They need to be able to control him in some form.
I would image they wouldn’t want him to be too desperate for money in case of what he might do.

That's one option, yes, but a very risky strategy. How would he make a living? He's mid 60s, has no skill set to trade off and no organisation in the UK at least would touch him. That leaves being paid for disastrous interviews, a couple of equally disastrous books, dodgy dealings with dubious overseas connections and launching a deodorant for men who don't sweat!

They haven't been a couple since they split up. They live in separate wings of RL and don't have much to do with each other. I imagine now they would have to live in closer proximity and she would prefer to be closer to the 'action', i.e. find some other sucker to pay her bills.

His state pension will be useful too. I assume he has paid enough stamps.
He doesn't seem to have gone down the autobiography route yet...but I think Sarah will happily sell the secrets if she isn't kept sweet.

wondering if Fergie needs plenty looking after to keep her quiet, maybe same applies to AMW? Tho he would be able to have his Navy pension…

Plus they are guardians of the late queen's dogs so need to be treated carefully.

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I love the deodorant idea! That's brilliant 😄

Yes quite - I bet she’ll be fully supported by her incredibly rich daughters and their families in her hour of need.

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Or back to his old tricks, taking money from murderous dictators.

The Lownie book suggests the Queen left him a fortune because she suspected Charles would not fund him in the manner he’d become accustomed to.

I reckon was living there with him for the luxury and kudos - pair of sleazebags !!
she will absolutely be out there sniffing out her next host for the parasitic claws she wields !! Ugh they make me shudder !!

They did seem to attend a lot of events together which makes me think there was some connection other than her occasionally staying in a wing of RL.
I find it all confusing but thank you all for the thoughts on their future.
SF is not one to quietly drift away…

I always wondered if she was housed because of what she knew. Now there is this whole mess in the public eye, it isn't necessary to keep her on side any more.

Unless she knows a lot of things not in the public eye. What a horrible mess they are in. And what an awful experience for the young people involved.

The Royal Lodge has 30 rooms, I guess you can live together and never see each other. It's like being neighbours three doors away from each other.

What about the corgies??

Yes the corgis
Didn’t she say that when they barked it was TLQ communicating with her? She’s as mad as a box of frogs.

She obviously does know things not in the public domain.

I think the sensible SF option would be to fund a farmhouse out of the way with enough to live on decently. Providing she doesn’t talk.

SF is nuts now though. That’s what royalty does to you.

Lol at Grafter. As if!

She bought a house in Belgravia in 2022 for £4.2 million which she sold at a loss around 2 months ago for £3.85 million. It's unclear why she didn't live in her own house but it shows this has been coming for a while.

However - even if housing were offered - I can't imagine Fergie willingly moving out to rural Norfolk and living among the so called turnip toffs.

We stumbled on a Cambridge University alumni talk on you tube by Andrew Lownie...a combination of what's in his book and how he did research. I don't have a link...but it was interesting, different approach.

There's a thread about the talk here:

Andrew Lownie's "Entitled" talk at AlumniFestival, University of Cambridge | Mumsnet https://share.google/BzAV4q3JBpsYI3iHy

A few of the papers have reported they had a falling out around the time of him originally stopping using his titles. Which definitely would be an interesting story to hear if the falling out was "FFS you're being ridiculous, stop using the titles and move house before" or "wtf do you mean you're not going to use your DOY title anymore?"

Thanks I hadn't seen the thread. We only saw it by accident and it was fascinating.