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Melanie McDonagh

OPINION - It was hard to think how Fergie's reputation could have got worse, but she's managed it

There was a time when I thought it would be tricky for Meghan Markle – sorry, Sussex – to be upstaged as the most hideously embarrassing Royal but nope, silly me; I forgot that there’s still Fergie. Now the word is that she and Prince Andrew may be shut out from the Royal Family Christmas celebrations as punishment for the latest revelations about her – the Royal equivalent of being sent to the Gulag. She has also been dropped as patron of the children’s charity Julia’s House, who stated ‘it would be inappropriate for her to continue as a patron of the charity’ in the wake of recent reports.

And it’s all about her association with Jeffrey Epstein, the late billionaire paedophile.

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