{"id":2303744,"date":"2026-02-27T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2303744"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:48:31","slug":"andrew-sarah-demonstrated-hypocrisy-of-the-royal-family-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-sarah-demonstrated-hypocrisy-of-the-royal-family-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew &#038; Sarah Demonstrated \u2018Hypocrisy&#8217; Of The Royal Family | Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n                <span class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\">By Molly Claire Goddard<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"time\" itemprop=\"datePublished dateModified\">9:50am PST, Feb 27, 2026<\/span>\n            <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-slider-details\" data-value=\"1\" data-id=\"919893\" data-key=\"1\" data-title=\"\">\n<h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAccording to journalist <strong>Simon Kelner<\/strong>, Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s philosophy about using their former status for cash became clear after the reporter had dinner with the ex-Duchess of York. &#8220;She seemed to think that it was enough just to be herself and here of course lies the problem for the\u00a0royal family,&#8221; he wrote for<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/fergies-business-failures-reveal-shameless-desperation-cash-4240851\"> I Paper<\/a>. &#8220;Exposure of how Andrew and Ferguson attempted to monetize being a royal and were, to a large extent, indulged while doing so, shows a hypocrisy at the heart of the House of Windsor.&#8221;                 <\/div>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSimon Kelner claimed Sarah Ferguson \u2014 who needed to fund her own luxurious lifestyle after her 1996 divorce from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor \u2014 &#8220;exhibited very little of what you might call a world-view&#8221; when it came to money. <\/p>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDespite The Firm&#8217;s modesty, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson landed in &#8220;that limbo land between celebrity and royalty,&#8221; Simon Kelner said. <\/p>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHowever, Sarah Ferguson reportedly put herself in millions of dollars of debt trying to keep up with the elite. &#8220;How is it even possible to get that much in debt without people calling in the men in white coats?&#8221; Simon Kelner questioned, while asking how no one from the royal family tried to &#8220;take her into protective custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tSimon Kelner blamed The Firm for not helping Sarah Ferguson navigate post-royal life. &#8220;Did all those around her, and particularly her former husband [Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor], think that, as a member of the extended royal family, she was protected, like they are, from the financial exigencies of the real\u00a0world?&#8221; he questioned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wonderwall.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Molly Claire Goddard 9:50am PST, Feb 27, 2026 _ According to journalist Simon Kelner, Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s philosophy about using their former status for cash became clear after the reporter had dinner with the ex-Duchess of York. &#8220;She seemed to think that it was enough just to be herself and here of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Andrew-Sarah-Demonstrated-\u2018Hypocrisy-Of-The-Royal-Family.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303746,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303744\/revisions\/2303746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}