Dec. 1, 2025
Yorks in Crisis: Clubs Shut Doors, Royals Sound as Fergie Plots Tell-All as Palace Recoils
Speculation grows that Sarah Ferguson may be preparing a high-profile interview as the Andrew scandal intensifies. Reports suggest the pair are no longer welcome at London’s exclusive Annabel’s club, Andrew’s Freedom of the City could face review, and commentators warn both are struggling under the pressure. New claims emerge about Princess Anne’s furious reaction during the toe-sucking scandal of the nineteen-nineties, while King Charles is said to be quietly considering occasional royal duties for Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie — even as Beatrice’s recent Saudi Arabia appearance sparks concern inside the Palace.
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Calorogus Shark Media that hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue.
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I am your host, Mark Francis. There is renewed speculation
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that Sarah Ferguson may be preparing to give a high
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profile interview addressing the fallout surrounding Andrew Taur TV presenter
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Mark Dolan told Sky News Australia she feels that she's
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been thrown under the bus, that it was Andrew's ill
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advised relationship with the disgraced X financier, and therefore she's
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got the record to set straight. She needs the cash
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and it's very possible that she will sign a million
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dollar deal to spill the beans. The big problem is
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for Charles because this whole scandal threatens to taint his
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entire rain as monarch. We hear a Palace Intrigue would
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encourage all parties to get this done soon. Is there
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a Christmas season advertising dollars to be captured by additional downloads?
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Just wait until next week. We're about to have Megan's
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Not Christmas Special and Kate's Concert to unpack. Andrew and
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Sarah may be facing an awkward social dilemma. Amid reports
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that they are no longer welcome at the exclusive London
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members club Annabells, despite their daughters Princess Beatrice and Eugenie
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continuing to enjoy full access. The Mayfair institution, founded in
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nineteen sixty three by Mark Burley and long associated with
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high profile figures including Frank Sinatra, Princess Diana and McJagger,
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has always prided itself on its privacy and selectivity. Membership
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currently costs in the region of thirty seven hundred pounds
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a year. According to The Daily Mail, Insiders suggest that
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the former Duke and Duchess could be denied entry should
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they attempt to visit. One source was quoted as saying
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the pair would be turned away, adding that their type
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of notoriety is not what the club needs. Any such
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measure would apply it not only to Annabel's, but to
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its four sister venues, including Marx, all owned by Richard
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Kerring's Burly Group. The source explained that both Annabells and
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Mars have very public facing entrances, so it would not
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be a great look for the Burly Group to have
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Andrew or Sarah pictured outside. The reported ban would not
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affect their daughters, who remain members. Observers note that this
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could make for a very awkward moment should the family
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attempt to arrive together. There is also renewed scrutiny over
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Andrew's Freedom of the City of London, a ceremonial status
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he acquired by patrimony through his father, Prince Philip. A
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spokesperson for the City of London Corporation told the Son
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Andrew received the honor by virtue of patrimony, which is
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inherited as the child of a freeman. Applications via patrimony
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are not considered by our elected members. The City Corporation
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is listening and will continue to listen to concerns raised,
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and it will carefully consider the rules that govern how
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a freedom is given, including the circumstances in which and
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the procedure by which it can be removed. The author
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of Entitle The Rise and Fall of the House of York,
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Andrew Lowney, hasuggested Andrew's passport be taken away. Louney told
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The Mirror Andrew needs to be investigated as a flight
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risk and his passport should be surrendered. I think there's
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a good chance Andrew would avoid any possible legal charges
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by going to the Middle East. Like King Juan Carlos.
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He said that would certainly suit the royal family. If
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the authorities are serious about investigating him and holding him
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to account, then his passport needs to be confiscated. Members
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of the royal family are reportedly expressing concern about the
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well being of Andrew and Sarah. Royal commentator Robert Jobson
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was asked how the pair were coping amid the ongoing controversy.
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Jobson told the Son not very well. Don't think. I
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don't think even members of the royal family who have
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taken action are concerned about both their mental health, jobs
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and stress that the wider context could not be ignored.
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I think that most of all, you've got to be
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concerned about the victims of the Epstein scandal, and that,
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to me is the biggest worry. They're human beings. A
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lot has been taken away. The reports suggest Sarah has
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been confiding in friends and staff as the pressure increases.
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Speaking to The Sun, one source claim that she and
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Andrew had been heard having some pretty intense conversations about
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what is going on, with Sarah described as panicking about
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what comes next. Another source said she is not in
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a good place and massively on edge. Adding Luckily, Sarah
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has quite a few staff working for her who really
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like her, and she is really leaning on them for support.
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She drinks in there with friends and staff to escape
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from what is going on in her life generally, and
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while she is there she takes advice on what to
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do next. Well, palasin just a moment. A new account
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of events in the early nineteen nineties suggests that Princess
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Anne was so angered by these scandal surrounding Sarah that
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she came close to physically confronting her. The allegations appear
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in Andrew Lowney's book entitled The Rise and Fall of
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the House of York. The controversy erupted after photographs were
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published of the duchess on holiday in the south of
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France with the American businessman John Bryan, described at the
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time as her financial adviser. The images, which showed Brian
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kissing Sarah's toes, caused deep embarrassment for the royal family.
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Lowney writes that Sarah traveled to Bowmorl after the trip
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and arrived to find members of the family at breakfast
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reading the newspapers containing the photographs. He records that she
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entered the breakfast room to find everyone reading the story
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and fled. According to Lowneye, one individual who was present
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told biographer Chris Hutchins that the Princess Royal came close
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to throttling Sarah and that during dinner she made her
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feelings known. As the source put it, there was not
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one voice raised against Anne. The book also describes Andrew's reaction,
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noting that his initial anger melted into sadness and that
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he withdrew into the special reports prepared for the late Queen,
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which she did not hesitate to let him read. A
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servant who was at Balmorral during the episode recalled that
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Sarah acted in the strangest way, adding you would have
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thought she is the person wronged if she had every
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right to go on holiday with another man, kiss him,
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cuddle him, and the only person who had behaved wrongly
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with a photographer and the editors of the newspapers who
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had published the pictures. King Charles is understood to be
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weighing the possibility of calling upon Princess Beatrice and Eugenie
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for occasional royal duties in what sources describe as a
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deliberate show of support for the York Sisters. According to
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a source in Vanity Fair, it was something that was
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being looked at before recent events, but despite what has
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happened with Andrew, it's not off the cards. A royal
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source said, whatever people might think of Andrew, the Goals
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are kind, hard working and want to help if they can.
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One royal source noted that the monarch is fond of
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his nieces and doesn't want them to suffer because of
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their father's downfall. There was no deal struck about the
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future for Beatrice and Eugenie. They are private individuals in
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that respect, but there have been talks for some time
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about using them when and if there is a need
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for their part. They have to let it be known
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that they are more than willing to do public duties
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if and when they can support the king. A source
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close to the princesses said Beatrice and Eugenie recognize there
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is a responsibility to support their uncle and they want
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to support him, despite how Uncle Charles may feel they
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might want to worry about cousin William. Beatrice is said
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to have left senior members of the royal family taken
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a back after hosting an event in Saudi Arabia described
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as an afternoon tea with Princess Beatrice of York. The
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gathering took place in late October at the Ritz Carlton
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in Riard, a choice of venue that attracted attention given
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her father's long standing links with the country during his
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decade as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment.
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The timing also draws scrutiny coming amid all the Andrew
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news cycles. According to reporting in Closer magazine, William and
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Kate were among those taken by surprise. A source told
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the publication it was seen as tone deaf, especially given
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the venues, reputation and the recent controversies. Surmoundly, Andrew and
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Sarah William Kate were genuinely upset when the pictures emerged.
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They have been very supportive of Beatrice and Eugenie and
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hope that they now will tow the Palace line. The
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Palace has made it crystal clear every appearance must now
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be approved and vetted by senior aids before anyone gives
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it the go ahead. There's now a push inside the
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Palace to impose an office style approval system on Beatrice
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and Eugenie's future activities to ensure there's no repeats of
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such headlines. They can't risk another scandal linked to the
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York name. And there you have it. If you'd like
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