Her spokesperson announced on Sunday January 21 that she had skin cancer.
Sarah Ferguson was thus diagnosed with “malignant melanoma”, after having been treated “this summer for a form of breast cancer”.
Despite this dark series, the mother of Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice could nevertheless find reasons to smile.
If we are to believe the information from columnist Ephraim Hardcastle, published in the
Daily Mail
, on Thursday February 1, Sarah Ferguson could indeed marry Prince Andrew for the second time, almost thirty years after their separation.
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According to an anonymous source, who spoke to the journalist, the union could be held discreetly, at All Saints Chapel, near the Royal Lodge, the home of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
A place where the union of their daughter, Princess Beatrice, was also sealed in 2020. The second marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson would therefore be a thousand miles from their first nuptials, celebrated with great fanfare in 1986 at the Westminster Abbey.
All this, on the assumption that the couple would overcome their “hesitations” and confirm their desire to remarry.
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The blessing of Charles III
King Charles III, for his part, would have given his “green light” for the new union of his younger brother.
An approval certainly beneficial for Prince Andrew, but not necessary.
Only the first six heirs in the order of succession to the throne need the sovereign's approval to marry.
This new union would be an opportunity for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson to give themselves a second chance.
Both were united for the first time in 1986, before separating ten years later, amid a media storm.
The numerous trips of Prince Andrew, due to his military career, and the criticisms made by the tabloids against the former duchess, would have undermined their union.
In March 1992, the couple announced their separation.
Before the
Mirror
published photos of Sarah Ferguson topless, having her toes gently devoured, it seems, by her financial advisor John Bryan, the following summer.
Photographs which had, at the time, buried any hope of reconciliation between the prince and his ex-partner.
Since then, Sarah Ferguson and the younger brother of Charles III nevertheless seem to have become closer again.
The former duke would have stayed with his ex-wife when she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
She would have, for her part, supported him in the light of the Epstein affair, in which Prince Andrew is accused of being involved.
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are now believed to be living together, albeit in two separate wings of the Royal Lodge.