Sarah Ferguson has reportedly previously boasted about being a “very good mother”, with this claim now having been debunked by one royal expert. The 66-year-old gave birth to Princess Beatrice when she was just weeks shy of her 29th birthday in 1988.
According to royal author Andrew Lownie, Sarah – now also a grandmother of four little ones – often had “trouble controlling her daughters when they were young”.
He also claimed that despite often being seen with her daughters, she would typically “hand them over to a nanny unless photographers were present”.
When Sarah featured in various magazine photoshoots with Beatrice and Eugenie, childminders would reportedly be there to take them after each shot.
Writing in his tell-all book, titled Entitled, Mr Lownie added: “On arrival at public functions, the duchess would grab the children’s hands while smiling for the cameras, then pass them back to their nanny once safely out of view.”
One fellow parent at Malborough College, which is where Eugenie attended between 2003 and 2008, told Mr Lownie how they very rarely saw Sarah and Andrew with their children.
This comes just weeks after claims surfaced that Sarah had taken Eugenie and Beatrice to visit the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein just five days after his release from prison after serving 13 months for soliciting a child for prostitution.
The sisters, who were 19 and 20 at the time, travelled to Florida with their mother in July 2009, with the trio having had lunch with Epstein.
In one email released in the latest Epstein files, released in January 2026, Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell about the visit. He wrote: “ferg and the two girls come [sic] yesterday”.
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