Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's marriage had been strained from the get-go, and during the former Duke of York's time in the Royal Navy, Ferguson carried on several affairs. Andrew also committed adultery, with his former driver telling author Andrew Lownie that the ex-duke "had slept with 'more than a dozen women before their first anniversary." But when it came time for the couple to formally separate in March 1992, there was suspicion that someone in the Royal Family had let the news slip to the press.
In his book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, Lownie writes that Ferguson went as far as to sneak one lover, John Bryan, "in the boot of a car" to get to her home with Andrew, Sunninghill Park. She'd been carrying on an affair with Texan Steve Wyatt previously, and per friends of the former Duke of York, he "accepted his marriage was over."
