Sarah Ferguson has been pictured for the first time in seven months after she went into ‘hiding’ amid mounting pressure over her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The 66-year-old, who has not been pictured publicly since last year, has been seen at a luxury Alpine ski resort in Austria.
Dressed in an all-black outfit and carrying a teal tote bag, Sarah was also seen trying to keep her identity private with a light-coloured cap. She was last seen more than 200 days ago and has kept silent on calls to give evidence to US lawmakers on her Epstein links.
In January, it was reported that Sarah was in the midst of a “housing crisis”, as her two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, could not offer her a home and she wanted to stay in Windsor. While appearing in Epstein files is not a suggestion of wrongdoing, Sarah featured prominently, with one email from 2011 referring to Epstein as a “supreme friend”.
In exclusive pictures obtained by The Sun, Sarah is seen emerging from a blacked-out Mercedes people carrier near her chalet on Wednesday.
A source said last night: “Fergie has been keeping an incredibly low profile while high up in the Alps.
“She hasn’t been seen for a long time and has clearly wanted to keep it that way. Her choice of outfit when she popped out was obviously carefully chosen to help her avoid being recognised. The area is absolutely beautiful and it’s very quiet most of the time, so it’s the perfect place for a high-profile figure such as her to lie low when the heat is on.”
She was last seen attending the late Duchess of Kent’s funeral on September 16, 2025, although she is also known to have been in attendance at her youngest granddaughter Athena’s christening in December.
As well as being stripped of her Duchess of York title last year, she was also evicted from Royal Lodge alongside her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, earlier this year. Unlike his ex-wife, Andrew still remains in the UK and is living at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
Andrew strongly denies any wrongdoing. He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on February 19 – which also happened to be his birthday – but was released under investigation 11 hours later.
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