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Prince Philip is in thrall to Fergie, the woman he looks after like a family pet

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Prince Philip is the one man in the Royal Family who, by general consensus, understands women. His is the voice that, for years, has excluded the Duchess of York from the royals’ Christmas get-together.

And, no doubt, it was his opinion which won the day when invitations were being sent out for William and Kate’s royal wedding, excluding Fergie.

Philip has always known what his blundering son Andrew cannot bring himself to accept – that Fergie is trouble.

Still crazy after all these years: Although they've been divorced for years, Prince Andrew is still sympathetic to his ex-wife

Today you can be sure Andrew will privately be making sympathetic noises on behalf of his ex-wife, even though her constant presence in his life has seen yet another bucket of opprobrium thrown over him, and increased the doubts about his fitness to be Britain’s international trade ambassador.

No one was really surprised when it emerged that, just like the Prince, Fergie has known American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for years, and even introduced their children to the generous billionaire.

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That is the way she – like Andrew – operates, rubbing shoulders with billionaires who delight in the cachet of being with ‘royals’, and introducing them to their friends. Indeed, there are those who excuse Andrew’s endless pursuit of rich friends as being the result of Fergie’s influence.

Crucial to their game is the royal title that is Fergie’s for life unless she remarries. Friends believe she will never shed it – at least not unless a rich husband, preferably with a royal title himself, comes along.

In the circumstances, no one should be all that surprised that Epstein helped them out by settling a part of Fergie’s £5million debts (paid off to tradesmen and others at a pathetic 25p for every pound she owed). Or that another of Andrew’s friends, tycoon and ex-Tory treasurer David ‘Spotty’ Rowland, once described as ‘shady’ in the Commons, also came to her aid.

Perhaps the most demeaning aspect of the situation is the sums these rich men threw into Fergie’s rattling pot – £15,000 by Epstein, £40,000 by Rowland. Combined, they wouldn’t even buy three bottles of vintage Dom Perignon champagne at The Box, the sex-charged London nightclub where the Yorks’ daughter Princess Beatrice was partying the other night.

So many of Andrew’s problems can be traced back to the woman who cuckolded him while they were still married, and whom he continues to look after, like a family pet, though they were divorced 15 years ago.

Consider the sickening enthusiasm and delight Fergie displayed ten months ago, when she was filmed doing a deal with a ‘sheik’ (who was in fact an undercover reporter) that would buy him access to Andrew for £500,000. How expertly, how greedily, she counted out an apparent downpayment of $40,000 (around £28,000).

Challenged about the arrangement, Andrew said he knew nothing about it, but yesterday it emerged he did, in fact, know the woman who fixed up the sheik’s meeting. Wasn’t it convenient for Fergie to make such a deal while living under her former husband’s roof? It raised the question: had she done it before?

She’s lived with him – not as man and wife, they insist – in Royal Lodge, the Queen Mother’s old house in Windsor Great Park, for the past four years. Fergie has always kept herself close to the Prince, and when she has run into financial trouble Andrew has repeatedly stepped in, using his staff to sort out her life as though they were still married. He was said to be ‘desperate’ to ensure that Fergie’s debts did not end in her being made bankrupt.

Royal aides – not to mention his father – have always feared that her life is polluting his. Although, heaven knows, much of his own behaviour is questionable enough.

But he will not hear a word against the woman angrily described some years ago by the Queen’s former private secretary Lord Charteris as ‘vulgar, vulgar, vulgar’.

‘I’m sure Andrew’s still in love with her,’ says one of his circle.

‘He’d have stayed with her if he could, but it was obvious when they hadn’t been married long that she was finding him boring.’

There was a time – long after their 1996 divorce – when friends believed Fergie only had to say the word and Andrew would re-marry her. Apparently it was she who would not marry him. But she’s always found him useful and willing, and he enjoys the arrangement. She may be trouble, but he likes having her at home, though she has her own rooms.

Friends believe the hold she clearly has on him goes far beyond the mere fact that she is the mother of his two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.

When Andrew took over Royal Lodge, he planned to spend £3.5million on refurbishments. In the end, he spent £8.5million. This was financed by his extraordinary good fortune in being paid £15million (£3million more than he was asking) by a friendly Kazakh billionaire for Sunninghill Park, the marital home where he and Fergie lived for only two years.

Last spring, when disgraced by the £500,000 ‘sting’, Fergie described herself as ‘in the gutter’. In her case, the gutter remains the sumptuous comforts of Royal Lodge. She shows not the slightest sign of moving out. Until she does – and Andrew behaves as a typical divorcee – his troubles will be far from over.

 

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