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This really is the ultimate Fergie<\/a> story \u2013 well-intentioned, wildly expensive and entirely chaotic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you read \u2013 undoubtedly with your mouth agape and in a state of bewilderment \u2013 that Sarah Ferguson once plotted to clone Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s corgis<\/a> for her own financial gain, you must have thought you\u2019d woken up in a parallel universe. No one would blame you. I was exactly the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Quite frankly, a logic-defying story like that does feel like the type of plot line desperate screenwriters would scrawl into the 22nd series of a long, drawn-out TV show \u2013 one that today only teeters on the edge of public interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After allegedly attending several meetings in LA about \u201cpushing to get back into TV\u201d to \u201cmake some money\u201d (surprise surprise), a source told the Daily Mail<\/a> that \u201cShe came up with the idea of featuring the Queen\u2019s corgis in a show. And that included the idea of breeding them. Bizarre as it sounds, the idea of cloning them was discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While the astonishing ins and outs would have, of course, been left to the back room boys, the image of Sarah, dressed in a white lab coat with a test tube in one hand and a petri dish in the other, like some mad scientist, with her vibrant red hair standing fantastically on end, is just too funny to picture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The story itself is devoted and dystopian in equal measure. It stems from her turgid refusal to let the Elizabethan era sit\u2026 and stay (pun very much intended).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Her mother-in-law provided her with a blanket of protection, which is lacking these days. She’s been thrown to the dogs, and the very little she can do about it. The idea that she could monetise Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s legacy by standing as some sort of gatekeeper to it is not only laughable but also a sinister and tasteless way to memorialise someone who gave her so much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n