The controversies and the consequent revocation of the titles of Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince and Duke of York until a month ago, have put both the third son of Queen Elizabeth II and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, on the ropes. In their near future there are already two confirmed scenarios: they will not spend Christmas with the rest of the British royal family at Sandringham – Ferguson returned to celebrate this date with them for the first time in 2023, after 30 years without doing so – and they will have to move from the Royal Lodge, the residence where the ex-marriage has lived since 2003. It is known that King Charles III’s brother will move to one of the monarch’s private homes in Sandringham, but this is not the case. we don’t know which one. It will be his destiny. While the mystery is solved, Ferguson has other fronts open. The latest of these, the cancellation of the publication of his latest children’s book.
Flora and fern: kindness along the way The publication was scheduled for October 9, according to a press release issued by Bookseller to which British media such as the BBC and Daily mail. Its publication was then delayed: at the beginning of last week the book was still available for purchase and was scheduled for release on November 20th. But now the title has been removed from the catalog of the publishing house New Frontier Publishing, both from its website and from other sales channels such as Amazon. The book was marked “withdrawn from sale” at the publisher’s request, NielsonIQ Book Data, a service that provides data on the global publishing market, confirmed to the BBC.
The British television network explains that in October, Waterstones bookshops informed them that the initial publication date had been “moved”, but that they had no other date planned. No reason has been given at this time for this deletion, but it is suspected to have to do with his ties to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “We have to assume that this is about the current controversies. It’s not the right time to publish a book by Sarah Ferguson,” said a source consulted by the BBC. “It’s not the kind of book that will age and you won’t risk a lot of money holding on to it,” the source continues.
Sarah Ferguson’s future is increasingly uncertain. Links to Epstein and emails that became public last September, in which she called him her “loyal and supreme friend” and apologized for her criticism of him, led several charities to withdraw their sponsorship or ambassadorial positions. “I abhor pedophilia and any sexual abuse of minors and I know that this was a gigantic error in judgment on my part. When I can, I will return the money and I will never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein again,” he said in a 2011 newspaper interview. London Evening Standard. After those words, the forgiveness came in private, even though he had already been convicted of sex crimes, and it took more than a decade for it to become public.
Until now, the former duchess – the title was removed from her Instagram profile when her ex-husband was forced by the king to stop using it – and writer had been able to rise from the ashes every time she was the protagonist of a controversy, but it seems there is no going back. In recent years, facing two cancer diagnoses, she was a regular contributor to television programs, a writer of children’s and adult books and had other social and charitable commitments that had nothing to do with the Crown. Now she has nothing left after everyone broke their current contracts with her.
In this new stage, still uncertain, his daughters Beatriz and Eugenia will be a fundamental support. Him Daily mail reported that Sarah Ferguson is preparing to move into the house her daughter Eugenia has in Portugal. He is expected to bring with him Queen Elizabeth II’s beloved corgis, which were adopted from her former marriage following the monarch’s death.
