Sarah Ferguson is facing renewed scrutiny after a new book claimed the former Duchess of York used Princess Beatrice's credit card and once paid a psychic in cigarettes. The allegations, reported in British and US outlets and attributed to royal biographer Andrew Lownie, focus on Ferguson's finances and behaviour in the years after her divorce from Prince Andrew.
The claims arrive after decades of attention on Ferguson's money troubles and commercial ventures following the end of her marriage in 1996. Lownie's book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, is chiefly about Andrew's downfall, but it also examines Ferguson's approach to money. For years, she has been portrayed as a royal living on the edge of privilege, no longer fully inside the institution but still closely tied to its world of luxury.
