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| | Sarah Ferguson 'tended to sleep with fantasy figures & financial benefactors' | | Added 66 minutes ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Over the weekend, we discussed the bizarre rumor/report that Sarah Ferguson had a friends-with-benefits situation with Sean Combs. Allegedly, this was in the early-to-mid aughts, when Combs was one of the most famous artist/producers in the world and most people didn?t know about his predatory behavior. This story comes via Andrew Lownie?s paperback edition of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York. Lownie has already gotten a lot of stuff wrong, but because he?s detailing Prince Andrew and Sarah?s decades of terrible behavior, people want to believe that he?s gotten everything correct (he has not). Well, Lownie has more about Sarah and how she genuinely wanted to marry Jeffrey Epstein, how she slept with financial benefactors and how she?s always been a constant stream of TMI.
Sarah was so desperate for money she offered to work as a house assistant to [Jeffrey Epstein], calling him a ?legend?. ?I am at your service,? she said. ?Just marry me.?
A Palace source emphasised that Sarah always gravitated to being with the bad boy: ?Look at her long history; every man she dated or associated with had a controversial past ? they all have sleazy and chequered pasts. She likes to live on the edge. She can?t settle down with a good man. It would bore her to tears.?
?Fergie made no secret how she wanted to marry someone in the US who was wealthy and powerful,? a Palm Beach friend of Epstein said. ?If Jeffrey popped the question, she would have said yes. Even after? he was convicted of being a sex offender. She had a reputation for being an opportunist and for sleeping with wealthy men.?
One of Sarah?s long-serving personal assistants confirmed that Sarah tended to sleep not just with her fantasy figures but with her financial benefactors.
Life with the duchess was ?chaotic?, said the assistant, who in common with other staff members had problems getting paid. They often had to buy things using their own credit cards. Sarah herself drew on Beatrice?s credit card constantly and paid one psychic in cigarettes. She rarely paid for anything, expecting to be given products for free or be entertained by friends.
In spite of that, the money poured out. Sarah maintained an apartment on the Upper East Side in New York. Personal trainers waited on call but were never used and one person was employed just to organise all the tablets Sarah took.
Sarah talked endlessly about having messed up her relationship with Diana and about her love of the Queen ? she hated Philip and Edward ? and her parents. The assistant was struck by her immaturity. ?She had this constant need to be wanted, with the result that she had no boundaries.?
She has talked up her relationship with the Queen but according to a royal source, the monarch ?repeatedly trashed Fergie? behind the scenes.
The source said: ?Several people, notably the Queen, ex-Prince Andrew and Prince Charles, were aware of her activities for years but turned a blind eye to protect the family from more scandal.?
[From The Daily Mail]
While I hate it when the British tabloids draw endless comparisons between Andrew and Fergie and the Sussexes, I?d just like to point out that *this* is what they always had planned for Prince Harry and Meghan. They wanted and expected to always be able to control Harry and Meghan financially, and to have them connected to various sleazy, compromised figures. As much as the Windsors are wringing their hands over ?what to do about the Yorks,? the Windsors largely facilitated Andrew and Fergie?s ?bad behavior? because it made them easier to control, and because the Yorks? bad behavior made the rest of the Windsors look better by comparison. As for the larger story of Sarah?s bad decision making? as I?ve said before, this feels less like ?Sarah is just a bad person? and more like some kind of clinical problem. For decades, she?s pissed away a dozen fortunes and made loathsome decisions. It?s likely some kind of personality disorder, IMO. Which makes it especially jarring that Fergie had the remarkably smart inclination to get the hell out of the UK late last year.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Amal Clooney wore an archival McQueen to the King's Trust anniversary event | | Added 66 minutes ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the 50th anniversary event for The King?s Trust. Fifty years ago, then-Prince Charles used his navy salary to start the Prince?s Trust, a scholarship and small-loan program to help British youths. In 2022, the Prince?s Trust became the King?s Trust, and it?s still one of the biggest scholarship programs in the UK. The trust has provided millions of pounds to help young people go to trade schools, acting schools, universities and more. King Charles plans to highlight the 50th anniversary throughout the week with several major events. Last night?s event was an awards show at the Royal Albert Hall.
Many celebrities came out for Monday?s event, including Ant and Dec, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Rita Ora, Lily Collins and George and Amal Clooney. The biggest controversy of the night didn?t involve George and Amal though. The biggest controversy belonged to Rod Stewart, who congratulated Charles on his recent US state visit. Stewart said: ?May I say, well done in the Americas. You were superb, absolutely superb, put that little ratbag in his place.? That little ratbag?? LMAO. I?m shocked that George Clooney didn?t leap to Donald Trump?s defense, honestly.
Fashion notes: Amal wore an archival Alexander McQueen from the 2007 collection. It is not flattering on her whatsoever. Lily Collins wore gold as well a sleek Carolina Herrera dress. Queen Camilla wore a dark blue lace sack, which was probably designed by Fiona Clare. I kind of feel like Camilla should have dusted off one of her 1980s gowns for this wearing tea-length to a gala event at the Royal Albert Hall is surely a fashion faux pas for a consort?? Camilla also wore her Van Cleef & Arpels serpent necklace, which is a piece from her personal collection. Whenever she wears any of her serpent jewelry, they always bend over backwards to avoid the obvious ?Camilla is a snake in the grass? commentary.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Queen Camilla 'was one of Kate Middleton's fiercest critics' in the beginning | | Added 66 minutes ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Go back 25 years ago, when then-Kate Middleton had finally succeeded in throwing herself in Prince William?s path at St. Andrews, the university she suddenly applied to after William announced his university plans. Many within the royal family were okay-ish with Kate at the time because they saw her as William?s come-and-go college girlfriend, someone who would not stick around. They were surprised when Kate and Carole Middleton worked William like a rib, and they seemed equally surprised that Kate simply hung around, through several breakups and through William treating her like sh-t. During the decade-long Waity Years, it seems like Camilla Parker Bowles was Kate?s biggest critic. This is according to Christopher Andersen, author of Kate!, the new biography of the Princess of Wales.
Queen Camilla didn?t always think Kate Middleton was suited to be with a future king. The claim comes from author Christopher Andersen, whose new book Kate! explores the Princess of Wales? rise from commoner to the heir?s wife and mother of the next in line. Andersen?s account is based on his reporting and sources and has not been independently confirmed by the palace.
In the beginning, Camilla was one of Kate?s fiercest critics, Andersen told Fox News Digital. She did not think she was up to snuff, as it were. She was below the salt. She had no aristocratic blood.
Camilla always saw herself as the mistress of a king, not a queen, Andersen claimed. And she picked [Princess] Diana to be [King] Charles? bride. So, she was very cognizant of the fact that a future king of England should have, she believed, a marriage to a royal personage, or at least a British aristocrat. Kate was none of those things, but she quickly became popular.?
He noted that Camilla?s early skepticism stemmed from concerns about royal tradition and social class. Fox News Digital reached out to Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace for comment. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson previously told Fox News Digital, We don?t comment on such books.
According to Andersen?s book, Camilla did object to Kate?s working-class roots for a reason. Camilla is the granddaughter of a baron and a descendant of the Stuart bloodline, which ruled England from 1603 to 1714. Her great-grandmother, Alice Keppel, was also King Edward VII?s mistress, an intimate connection to the royal family that Camilla had always taken immense pride in, Andersen wrote. Unlike Kate, Camilla moved in royal circles throughout her life.
Camilla had long lobbied on behalf of the highborn beauties with hyphenated names who swarmed around the heir, wrote Andersen. It was she, after all, who, along with another of Charles? mistresses, Baroness Tryon, handpicked Lady Diana Spencer to become Charles? bride, Andersen wrote. He also claimed that an aristocrat with homegrown blue blood would be preferable than a descendant of coal miners whose mother had grown up in public housing and once worked as a flight attendant.
Camilla wasn?t the only one who questioned whether Kate could handle life behind palace doors.
[Kate] has been with William for 25 years, said Andersen. People forget that. Don?t forget the ?Waity Katie? 10-year period there, where she put up with the slings and arrows of outrageous [comments] coming from every angle.
The palace didn?t really want her. People like Camilla didn?t want her because they felt that she was too common to be the wife of a future king. And, of course, the press was vicious in England, portraying her family as a bunch of louts and criticizing [her mother] Carole Middleton for doing such horrible things as chewing gum while she was quitting smoking.
According to Andersen?s book, Camilla was also wary of Carole, who was portrayed in the press as a gauche opportunist, a mother willing to do anything to ensure her daughter would marry a future king.
Camilla, who felt she knew a schemer when she saw one, feared her mother, wrote Andersen, referring to Carole. One former mistress of Charles also told Andersen that for Camilla, it?s really all about [keeping] your friends close and your enemies closer. It?s her way of keeping her eye on you.
[From Fox News]
One of my favorite theories or commentary threads about Camilla and the Middletons is that Camilla is THE reason why all of the blueblood women rejected William. Circa 2005-07, William dumped Kate several times to try his luck with those ?highborn beauties with hyphenated names.? Those girls didn?t want William they ran far away from him, encouraged by their highborn mothers who saw the way the Windsors treated Lady Diana Spencer. Camilla is, according to many royal theories, THE reason why William basically had to settle for Kate. True highborn aristocratic women avoided getting involved with William because they didn?t want to end up being treated like sh-t by the institution, by Camilla, and by William. Something else I?ve always believed is that Diana, had she lived, would have seen straight through the Middleton grift. Diana would have had little time for Carole. Meanwhile, Camilla seeing Carole as a schemer? lol, pot, kettle, etc.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid, Cover Images.
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