Sarah Ferguson has been dealt another blow as the fallout continues from her and ex-husband Andrew’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
A press statement in Bookseller originally shared that the former Duchess of York was scheduled to release her latest book, Flora and Fern: Kindness Along The Way, on October 9 – but earlier last week, it was slated for sale from November 20.
As of this weekend, it is no longer available on the website.
NielsonIQ Book Data confirmed to the BBC that it has been “withdrawn from sale” at the request of the publisher.
Sarah has published more than 50 books, mainly children’s titles.
It’s been a bruising few weeks for Sarah and Andrew, the royal formerly known as Prince, following the leaking of emails showing they both had been in contact with convicted sex offender Epstein after publicly claiming they’d cut him off.
The ex-Duke of York now goes by Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after being sensationally stripped of his titles by his brother, the King, with both he and his ex-wife served an eviction notice from their sprawling Royal Lodge home.
In an unusual arrangement, the pair had lived together since 2008, but will now go their separate ways. Andrew will be housed at a residence at the King’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk – but it’s not yet been confirmed where Sarah will live.
According to the Daily Mail, she is likely to leave the UK and move in with her daughter Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank at their multimillion-dollar mansion in Portugal.
It’s been claimed that as the controversy around her and Andrew unfolded recently, Sarah has been “more on edge”, bunkered down in her soon-to-be-former Windsor mansion, “surrounded by Amazon deliveries.”
Back in September, an email sent from Sarah to Epstein back in 2011 emerged, in which she called him her “steadfast, generous and supreme friend.’
It was sent weeks after she had given an interview describing her “terrible, terrible error of Judgement” in having a friendship with him, and claimed she would have “nothing to do” with him” again.
The revelation resulted in Sarah being dropped by seven charities with which she was associated.
Meanwhile, the King’s decision to strip his brother of his titles and honours and formally evict him from his sprawling Royal Lodge in Windsor recently came amid mounting pressure over his ties to Epstein.
He was infamously accused of having had sexual encounters with the late Virginia Giuffre, one of which she alleged occurred when she was just 17 years old, while she was being sex trafficked by Epstein.
Andrew has always denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
With the release of Ms Giuffre’s posthumous memoir in October, which coincided with the leak of damaging emails from Andrew regarding his ties to convicted sex offender Epstein and the revelation that he had not paid rent on his palatial home in 22 years, the scrutiny reached unprecedented levels.
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