![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I left the royal family for freedom and in freedom it means I am bereft." "I have not got a bean to my name," she said. The duchess, who has since admitted the prince knew nothing of her plan, accepted a US$40,000 deposit and spoke candidly about her financial situation. Posing as a wealthy businessman, he filmed her as she promised to arrange a meeting with her former husband, Prince Andrew.įor £500,000, Prince Andrew, the UK's Representative for International Trade and Investment, would "open up doors. The author of the illustrated tale, published in 2008, was Sarah Ferguson, Britain's Duchess of York, whose career as a writer, taken up through financial necessity after her divorce from Prince Andrew, has always been painfully autobiographical the news this week that she has fallen foul of a tabloid newspaper sting is just another chapter in a life lived as an open book.Īs the London newspaper News of the World revealed in its "Cash for royal access sensation" last Sunday, the duchess had fallen into a trap set by Mazher Mahmood, the newspaper's self-styled "King of the Sting". Ruby, a clumsy, flame-haired tomboy with a skill for upsetting trays and applecarts, "tries hard to practise princess-like manners," but "try as she might, can't be as well-mannered as she wishes she could." In the 2008 children's book Tea for Ruby the heroine receives an invitation to tea with the Queen. ![]()
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