Sarah Ferguson has been found to have attempted to sell an undercover reporter posing as a businessman access to her former husband, Prince Andrew the Duke of York, for half a million pounds. (That’s in the neighborhood of $750,000 approximately.) The Duchess has been in and out of money trouble, and she apparently was willing to potentially put the father of her children at risk to get out of it. She has been the black sheep of royalty in Britain, despite a popular following in the former colonies.
Sarah Ferguson busted again
In an apparent move to get a little debt relief, Sarah Ferguson has been busted by a News of the World sting. For half a million pounds, she would arrange for unfettered access to Prince Andrew for the reporter, posing as a businessman. According to The Guardian, the reporter in question is Mahzer Mahmood, and whistleblowing is his stock-in-trade. A rookie mistake would have been preferable, and as blunders go, this was a big one.
Fergie has become the Fungus Among Us
When Sarah Ferguson acts like an ignoramus, she can’t do it away from the press. During her marriage to Prince Andrew, she was caught by the press numerous times seeing other men socially which got her an unofficial blackball by the royal family. Those shenanigans aside, potentially selling out the security of another person and, most egregiously, the father of her children is pretty rotten, even for royalty. Granted, it isn’t as harsh as the divorce settlements of Henry the 8th. (I am, I am.) Mahmood has stung several celebrities in similar circumstances, which makes this sting that much more comical.
How the mighty have fallen
When people get desperate, they act contrary to their self interest in the long run. It doesn’t need to be said, but the dramas of British royalty really don’t matter. Just like the Kennedys, there’s no real reason to care. The rest of us get jobs and tough out our problems without selling anyone else out, especially the co-parent of our children. It’s almost childish, really.
Citations
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/23/sarah-ferguson-andrew-cash-tabloid
