Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's narration is surely unusual.
The mates divorced successful 1996 aft 10 years of matrimony - but they proceed to unrecorded and vacation together. And it has led to continuous speculation that they volition 1 time remarry. Not so, according to 1 royal expert, who has revealed wherefore it's improbable the brace volition ever necktie the knot again.
Speaking connected GB News this year, Victoria Arbiter commented: "There's agelong been speculation regarding whether oregon not Andrew and Fergie volition remarry. But their existent concern seems to suit them some good truthful wherefore complicate things?" Andrew and Sarah person known each different since they were children but it wasn't until 1985 that they started dating aft being seated unneurotic astatine Royal Ascot that year.
They got engaged 9 months aboriginal connected February 19, 1986 - his 26th day - with Andrew presenting his wife-to-be a beauteous ruby engagement ring. Their wedding took spot astatine Westminster Abbey connected 23 July 1986 and 2 years later, they welcomed their archetypal child, Princess Beatrice , followed by Princess Eugenie successful 1990. But cracks had begun to look successful their relationship. Andrew's naval career saw him distant from the household for agelong periods of time. And successful 1991 they split, with their divorcement finalised successful 1996.
Speaking to US TV big Ernie Manouse successful 2010, Sarah said: "My woody was that I was marrying my man, who happened to beryllium a prince and a naval officer. But what I got was not the man, I got the palace and didn't get him... and the courtiers told maine I had to spell to Buckingham Palace and helium had to spell to sea. For our marriage, I saw him 40 days a year."
Despite the extremity of their marriage, Fergie and Andrew person remained adjacent and she has stood by the disgraced duke aft helium was embroiled successful a sex maltreatment scandal, which helium vehemently denies. The brace lived astatine Sunninghill Park successful Ascot portion they were married, but successful 2004, Andrew moved into Royal Lodge. Since 2008, Sarah has besides utilized it arsenic her basal whenever she is successful the UK truthful the erstwhile mates tin amended co-parent - and grandparent.
Writing successful the Sunday Times , Sarah explained wherefore she continues to enactment astatine Royal Lodge with her ex, saying: "I question a batch and I've ever been capable to marque wherever I americium home. If I americium staying successful a edifice I person the aforesaid household photographs and scented candles astir me. When I'm successful the UK I'm fortunate capable to enactment astatine Royal Lodge. I wouldn't telephone it my location arsenic that would beryllium presumptuous," she added.
The exes person besides been known to vacation together; successful 2019, Sarah and Andrew enjoyed a getaway to Bahrain with Beatrice and her now-husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
In 2010, Sarah adjacent stated that if they had their clip again, they would basal up to those who pushed them apart. She said: "Both Andrew and I… some of america accidental present if we could spell backmost we would decidedly play it otherwise and we should person learnt however to play the chess crippled differently. And possibly we person inactive been unneurotic due to the fact that we would person said 'no' to being separated conscionable aft our wedding."
In 2017, she acceptable tongues wagging further erstwhile she told an Australian vigor amusement that they "never truly near each other".
"I deliberation the emotion I had for him then, is the emotion I inactive person for him now. I inactive joined the champion and the greatest gentleman that I know. We are the blessed ever after, it's conscionable not astir marriage. It's much astir this bonzer relationship we have," she has said.
Speaking to the Daily Mail successful 2018 , Sarah reiterated however "united" the household volition ever be, contempt each they'd been through, and claimed she was "divorced to" Andrew, not divorced from him. "We're the happiest divorced couple successful the world. We're divorced to each other, not from each other," she explained. "My work is to him. I americium truthful arrogant of him. I basal by him and ever will. The mode we are is our fairytale." The Duchess continued: "The Yorks are a agreed family. We've shown it."