Sarah Ferguson’s ‘victim card’ has expired – ‘the old Fergie doesn’t…
Sarah Ferguson’s ‘victim card’ has expired – ‘the old Fergie doesn’t exist’
Sarah Ferguson has always been someone who has never found herself far from scandal. Be it the toe-sucking drama or, more recently, the damaging details of her past relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein emerging in explosive fashion.
In the years that have followed, she has often put pen to paper, writing or contributing to 64 books, including two tell-all memoirs. However, any future plans have been brutally shut down by a publishing insider, who said she will not be able to play the “victim card” ever again.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Express, the insider blasted: “She can no longer play the victim card effectively, so how would she sell herself?
After several reports that Sarah has been approached to write another book to share her side of her fall from grace, the insider opened up about how the news would go down with the Royal Family, particularly with her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
“She has always been reasonably unpopular with the public and had to constantly try and sell a better image of herself,” the publishing insider said of Sarah. “She managed to develop a buffoon-like image, portraying herself as the victim, a bit bumbling but always innocent, which formed a likeable enough character to help secure book and business deals over the years.
“But I think the public perception of all royalty has hardened. Even popular Royal Family members like Prince William and Catherine are being openly heckled in public appearances. Sarah dare not show her face in public, let alone start touting around a book she has written. People would be sceptical of any content.
Unless she offers new explosive material, possibly about other Royal Family members, what would the book be about? She can no longer play the victim card, so how would she sell herself?”
Asked whether there would be any appetite to hear from Sarah after everything that has come out from the scandal, the source warned: “Any publisher would be taking a huge gamble on her now. The ‘Fergie’ character the press grew to love doesn’t appear to exist.
“It appears behind the scenes that Sarah is a very different character to the one she has portrayed to the public. She has many questions to answer about her involvement with Epstein, including meeting him after he was released from prison and even taking her daughters to see him.
“Unless she was keen to ‘tell all’ and be completely honest, there would be no point to any book. Plus, how truthful would she be? Any publishing lawyer would be highly sceptical about her version of events.”
Even though she has been a published author since the first of the Budgie the Little Helicopter books were published in 1989, Sarah opened up about becoming a best-selling novelist in her sixties.
Speaking to SheKnows, Sarah said: “You start your career at 61, then you go to say, ‘Oh, I could write a novel,’ then you ask for help to write the novel, and then when you get to 63, you’ve already done the Sunday Times bestseller list.” She added: “It’s pretty exciting to talk from a place of inspiration of starting a new career at 63. You’re never too old.”
She went on to explain how she discovered herself in the process of putting pen to paper. “People say you escape into the novel,” she explains. “Well, I am escaping out of myself; of the self-doubt, out of the self-judgment, of the self-sabotage.”
Explaining that she finally knows who she is, she explains: “I’m a novelist and I’m an author,” she says, “I write historical romances with a twist of super sleuthness – super sexy, sassy, super sleuthness. And what else? Oh, yes, and also saucy. We got some sauce going on.”
But should she ever sit down to write a tell-all book about her friendship with Epstein, she may not feel so confident. The public will expect nothing less than warts and all, not a managed version of events.
And any attempt to profit from it would be deeply distasteful to many.
