Andrew, Fergie have been cast once again as a marriage built on convenience rather than romance, after royal biographer Andrew Lownie said the pair were both having affairs during their time together and that the public image of a conventional royal couple was a 'myth.' The claims, drawn from his book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, focus on the former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's marriage, which began in 1986 and ended in divorce in 1996.
The news came after renewed attention on the couple's long and awkwardly persistent proximity, years after their split and amid the continuing fallout from Andrew's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. King Charles III stripped Andrew of his remaining titles and royal style in October 2025, a move later formalised in the official record, and Sarah Ferguson has also been adjusting to life away from Royal Lodge as the household arrangement that once looked peculiar now looks, in royal terms, almost inevitable.
