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Sarah Ferguson‘s return to the royal family‘s Christmas Day walk may go much deeper than people realize. King Charles III has been applauded for bringing about the reconciliation after Prince Philip banned her for decades, but palace insiders are saying there might be a more personal reason for her return that relates to her romantic life with Prince Andrew.
Despite their tumultuous years together and apart after their 1996 divorce, Andrew and Fergie are still best friends. “It seems inevitable now that they will just formalize it within a few years and remarry. They live in the same house, they spend all their time together, they adore the children, they don’t ever argue,” one of Duke of York’s pals told The Daily Beast.
A former Buckingham Palace employee noted that it was a “running joke” in the royal family that remarriage between the duo was inevitable. Based on their years of experience working for royals, the insider thinks people should take Ferguson’s return very seriously. “I think Fergie going to church has genuinely shifted the dial,” they explained. “If you think about it practically, what would need to happen? Andrew would need to ask his brother’s permission, and given his own romantic history, and the events of this week, you would have to guess he would agree.”
The timing may raise a few eyebrows with the upcoming release of court documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case, where Andrew’s name is likely to be mentioned, but the retired employee believes this has everything to do with Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. “It could never have happened when Prince Philip was alive. He ruled the family with a rod of iron and he loathed her,” they said. “And Queen Elizabeth wouldn’t have gone against Philip’s wishes, even after his death. The simple fact is that if they wanted to remarry now, they could.”
The first source even alluded to a bit of palace naughtiness behind the scenes at Royal Lodge, divulging that they “wouldn’t be totally shocked if some corridor-creeping is going on” even though Prince Andrew and Ferguson reportedly live in separate wings. A second marriage between the two of them would show some fierce loyalty given the fact that the sexual abuse allegations lodged against Andrew are significant. And Fergie doubled-down on her loyalty in her 2011 memoir, Finding Sarah, writing, “I love Andrew to this day, as I did when I met and married him, and I would never, ever, sell him out or betray him.” Their love runs deep, and perhaps her reemergence in the family fold is one step closer to another walk down the aisle.
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