Sarah Ferguson forced to ‘use burner phones and sleep on sofas’ | Royal | News
Sarah Ferguson had been missing from public life since December; Her simultaneous disappearance, along with Andrew’s arrest for alleged misconduct in public office, brought the couple back into the spotlight.
According to reports, the former Duchess of York has spent these months on a “secret couchsurfing world tour”, quietly working her way through a rich network of connections that shield her position from the public eye.
An insider who allegedly spoke to Ferguson via video call recently painted a problematic picture, telling a newspaper that the former royal looked disorganized and was clearly not coping well. “She doesn’t pay attention to her roots or keep up with her Botox,” they said, adding that paranoia takes over.
“He’s really depressed. He looks angry,” the friend reportedly said. “He has three phones and he scrolls through them because he’s afraid he might be being followed. He believes many people want to harm him.”
Ferguson’s disappearance comes as her history with Epstein faces new scrutiny, the Daily Mail reported.
Leaked emails show him describing his disgraced financier as a “committed, generous and outstanding friend”; This description sat uncomfortably alongside her public admission at the same time that their relationship had been a “horrible, terrible lapse in judgement.”
In a separate post, he wrote of Epstein as a “brother.” [I] In the correspondence that followed his prison sentence, it is said that he always “wished” and personally took his daughters to visit him.
Ferguson reportedly found ways to reach Andrew away from cameras. Closer Magazine said he made secret trips to his Wood Farm home and that staff went to extraordinary lengths to keep the visits secret.
“Sarah has been to Wood Farm on different occasions and has become very important to Andrew,” a source said. “On one occasion, she was brought in the back of Andrew’s car, hidden in the footwell and under a blanket. The second time, staff said she arrived in a transport truck.”
When the Prince and Princess of Wales learned what had happened, they were furious.
“William and Kate were absolutely furious when they found out about this. Not only was it secret, it was secret. That’s what really shook William and Kate up. They’re angry because they feel like they’re trying to draw a clear line under this situation, but things like this are still going on behind their backs,” the magazine reported.
As Andrew’s legal peril deepens and the Epstein affair refuses to go away, the pressure on Ferguson to come to the surface is unlikely to ease.
