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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Prince Andrew's Teenage Girlfriend Declared She'd "Marry Him Tomorrow" Ahead of His Wedding to Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew waving on their wedding day from Buckingham Palace.

Before Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson, his best-known relationship was with American actress Koo Stark. But many royal fans might not realize that he spent two terms of his school life living in Canada when he was just 16—a time when Andrew fell for a fellow teenager, Sandi Jones. Prince Andrew met Jones when he watched Princess Anne compete in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and six months later, the couple reunited when he attended an exchange program at Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. It was a significant relationship for Jones—who would go on to attend Prince Andrew and Ferguson's wedding.

According to Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, the young prince "began spending nearly every weekend" with Jones during his time at Lakefield College. Like his father, Prince Philip, and brother, Prince Charles, Andrew attended Gordonstoun School in Scotland, and Lakefield also focused on "community service and outdoor activity."

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