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As scandal swirls around her ex-husband Sarah Ferguson<\/a> has not been on hand as a shoulder to cry on or a rock of support – instead it appears she has ben busy looking after number one<\/a>. The world was rocked last Thursday as swarms of detectives swooped on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s<\/a> temporary home in Sandringham to arrest him – while others started combing through his former Windsor mansion, Royal Lodge.\u00a0<\/p>\n Later that evening Andrew looked ashen when returning home hours later, quizzed on suspicion of sharing confidential material with the late Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> when the ex-prince was working as a UK trade envoy. But after decades co-habiting at Royal Lodge<\/a> with her ex-husband, as Andrew’s world was crashing around him last month – Fergie was reportedly holed up in the world-renowned \u00a313,000-a-day Paracelsus Recovery Clinic<\/a> in Zurich, Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now I’m not going to make light of mental health as it can be a crippling disease that is indiscriminate when it comes to age, social standing, wealth or race.\u00a0<\/p>\n I also want to stress that when it comes to the millions of emails from the Epstein Files, Sarah Ferguson has not been accused of any wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n But her complicated friendship with Epstein is certainly fawning, unsavoury and completely tone deaf to the crimes that the US financier committed.\u00a0<\/p>\n For instance, flying to the US with her young daughters Beatrice and Eugenie to meet Epstein in 2009 – just days after his release from prison for procuring a 14-year-old girl for prostitution – shows a lamentable lack of moral judgement.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n So while victims of Jeffrey Epstein are screaming for transparency and justice in the US, for Fergie to have spent time at a luxury wellness spa is grating.\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile for a woman who has lived most of her adult life with bankruptcy hanging over her head like the mythical Sword of Damocles, frankly how did she afford it?\u00a0<\/p>\n Did a mystery benefactor pay her \u00a313,000-a-day bill \u2026 and, if so, why? If it’s her own money, is spending so much of it, when cheaper options are surely available, a good idea? At this stage, given the lavish spending that seemed to make her desperate for Epstein’s help, perhaps someone should simply hide her bank cards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s claimed she was there for the entire month of January. If so, that’s close to an eye-watering \u00a3400,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n That’s no small change for any royal – especially an ex-duchess, turfed out of her mansion who last week closed six companies and is currently persona non grata in Blighty.<\/p>\n A Swiss source has claimed: “Sarah left for Zurich just after Christmas, and stayed until the end of January.<\/p>\n \u200b”She always feels at home at Paracelsus, and knows she\u2019ll get love and attention there, as well as expert health treatment when she\u2019s feeling at her most vulnerable.”<\/p>\n