While social media is proclaiming 2026 to be the new 2016, for Sarah Ferguson, it's looking a lot more like 1996. The late '90s marked Sarah and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's divorce, a turning point when the former Duchess of York lost her HRH status and suffered a significant fallout from the charities and brands she worked with at the time. Thirty years later, the situation seems strikingly familiar in the wake of Sarah and Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein.
When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his titles in October 2025, Sarah also lost her own Duchess of York title. Although the former couple has been divorced since 1996, Ferguson could still use her duchess title, and leaned on it both "socially and financially," per Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.
