The disclosure of a former “alliance” between Sarah Ferguson and Princess Diana

In the corridors of the British Royal Palace, and behind the closed doors, a close alliance was formed between two of the most famous and influential women in the royal family, during the period of the eighties of the last century, the late Princess Diana, the current wife of Charles III, and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and Prince Andrew.

There were several common denominators, the most important of which was their feeling of alienation within the royal establishment and their rejection of the strict restrictions imposed by the palace on them.

According to the head of the personal servant of Princess Diana, Paul Borrell, in his latest book, “Close to the Royal Family”, Diana and Sarah were constantly exchanging talk about their feeling of frustration with the senior palace employees whom Borrell described as “men with gray suits”, and the two princesses called them a satirical name: “the inner enemy”, as an expression of their sense of pressure and restriction by these people behind.

Despite her royal background, Sarah Ferguson was constantly suffering from financial hardship, in a desperate attempt to secure a fixed income, she signed a contract with the famous publishing house “Simon and Crostre” in exchange for a prelude to an introduction whose reports ranged between 800 thousand and 1.5 million pounds, and then the head of the house, Michael Corda said: “We are proud of this rare opportunity to publish a book in which the Duchess of York presented its personal novel, as I lived it, and not as it was interpreted for the public. ”

It became clear later that Ferguson promised publishers that she would also write about Princess Diana, if he was contracted, and according to Andrew Lewin, in his book issued in 2025, entitled “The rise and fall of the York family”, the publishing house offered Ferguson an additional amount of one million pounds, if she can persuade Diana to write her life story herself.

With the increasing financial pressure, Ferguson began to search hard for additional sources of income, and in light of the decline in the support of wealthy friends and the distance of many of them, she found herself in an embarrassing and repeated position, even the late Queen Elizabeth II, who had previously intervened to pay the debt of Ferguson on several occasions, stopped covering her expenses, especially after she rested from her unproductive spending pattern Shopping.

Despite its financial problems, Ferguson was one of the most traveled and traveled royal family members in Britain, as press reports reported that it had cut about 205,000 miles in just one year (from July 1994 to July 1995), which is equivalent to about eight flights around the world.

Ferguson’s spending was not only excessive on her personal needs, but also included the purchase of luxurious gifts for her friends, in an attempt to preserve the social relationships that she sees necessary for her position and her network of support. “Mirror”