Finding Fergie: The Great Re-Duchessing
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
3w ago
As far as rock bottoms go, Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson has hit a few. In this final episode of the Fergie season, hosts Allie and Eva revisit the aftermath of two of Fergie's biggest scandals and her subsequent efforts at redemption (or, should we say re-branding) with the assistance of none other than Oprah and Dr. Phil. Fergie's road from "second-tier Sloane" to Duchess, to exiled royal and back again, has been a winding one. And yet, with steady and cheerful determination, she's reemerged once more as a palace player at the highest levels. Our story ends with Fergie's soft relaunch as a royal ..read more
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Finding Fergie: Fergie and the Queen, Forever
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
1M ago
Can one ever truly be friends with a reigning monarch?  According to Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, she and the late Queen were the best of pals. At the end of her reign, Elizabeth granted Fergie a royal funeral at St. George's Chapel, Windsor and a place in the family plot. The Queen also invited Fergie to what would be her final family Christmas. Was this evidence of a deep and enduring friendship?   Perhaps. After all, Fergie and QE2 had so much in common: horses, dogs, and also, horses. It was Fergie who inherited the Queen's beloved corgis, Sandy and Muick. And, surely, that tells us ..read more
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Finding Fergie: The Scandal Years Pt. 2
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
1M ago
Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson divorced "her prince" in 1996, a decade after she (metaphorically) stumbled down the aisle at Westminster Abbey and (metaphorically) fell into Andrew's (literal) giant pile of teddy bears. Her life as an official working royal was marred by money troubles, tabloid scandals, and oh-so-brief moments of rebirth. The same can be said for her life as a single working mom. In episode five of "Finding Fergie," hosts Allie and Eva pick up where they left off: on Fergie's journey for self-discovery, redemption, and... cash. Adrift from the royals after a duo of photo scandals in ..read more
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Finding Fergie: The Scandal Years, Pt. 1
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
1M ago
When Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson joined the British royal family, things seemed good — for a hot minute. But then, reality set in. Her Prince was away with a time-consuming job, her new official role came with a good degree of pressure, and dear Fergie ended up going toe-to-toe with the notoriously inflexible "Grey Men" of the palace. TL;DR our heroine plotted her exit from both her marriage and The Firm after not too many years, and she was aided in making her grand departure (some may say, forced exit) by two Texan men. The last years of her time as an official royal saw Fergie stumble into ..read more
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Finding Fergie: The Diana Years
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by Eva & Allie
2M ago
Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson and Princess Diana were cousins, sisters-in-law, and co-conspirators against the royal family. Their relationship, and their centrality in the royal family during the late twentieth-century, was the stuff of legends — and tabloid headlines. Friends since adolescence, they fell out sometime in the mid '90s... and never spoke again. In the latest episode of Windsors & Losers's Fergie season — dubbed "Finding Fergie" — our hosts Eva and Allie look back at Fergie’s unique and tumultuous friendship with Princess Diana ..read more
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Finding Fergie: The (Almost) Royal Years
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
2M ago
After there was young Fergie, there was... teen Fergie and young adult Fergie. And then, finally, Sarah Ferguson metamorphosed into her fully-realized self: royal Fergie. In this episode of the "Finding Fergie" season, Allie and Eva revisit the Duchess of York's late teens and early twenties. These were crucial, vital years in Fergie's life, where she lived with a girlfriend South of the river in London, went traveling without a credit card, borrowed her stepmother's clothes, and dated an older man with a massive Swiss chalet and a wine collection bought at Sotheby's.   But Fergie's life ..read more
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Camilla and Her Spin Doctor
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by Eva & Allie
10M ago
Mark Bolland pulled off many coups during his seven-year tenure as Charles and Camilla's palace spin doctor... but he wasn't there to make friends. “There was an awful man there," one senior figure said 20 years later. "Absolutely destructive beyond belief." So who is this Rasputin-like magician who turned Camilla from most reviled woman in Britain into future queen? In the final episode of "The Camilla Season," Eva and Allie follow the mighty rise and unceremonious end of Camilla's most ruthless and dogged courtier ..read more
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Queen Camilla, the Original Conscious Uncoupler
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
11M ago
Can queens be friends with their exes? Camilla is the first divorced queen in British history with a living husband. And — oh, is he ever living! The charming and roguish Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles is still a key member of Camilla’s inner circle, beloved by all, including Camilla, despite his cad antics. He regularly attends ceremonial occasions as Camilla’s guest and has on at least one occasion acted as her official representative. In fact, it could be argued (by us) that Andrew and Camilla, not Gwyneth and Chris, are the true originators of “conscious uncoupling.” In the penultimat ..read more
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Queen Camilla Would Like to Be Your Friend
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
11M ago
As any royal biography will tell you, people really like Queen Camilla — they really, really like her. This week, hosts Eva and Allie are deep-diving into the former Camilla Parker-Bowles’s wide world of friendships. Camilla’s inner circle is a big one, from throwback childhood horse and pony pals to the six grown-up female friends she’s hooked up with (unpaid) jobs at the Palace. We meet this motley crew of royal BFFs, including the one who’s Charles’s cousin and the one whose husband proposes to strangers. And we can't forget to mention Camilla's long history of befriending reporters. Camill ..read more
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The Romance (and Enduring Cringe) of Camillagate
Windsors & Losers
by Eva & Allie
11M ago
In episode six of "The Camilla Season," Eva and Allie bravely go where no one ever wanted to go again... back to 1993, year of "Tampongate." This was the iconic conversation in which, as you will reluctantly recall, Charles talked about becoming Camilla's tampon. It wasn’t the future king's finest hour, nor was it the finest hour of the “amateur radio enthusiast” who taped someone else’s private phone call and sold it to the tabloids. But there’s more to Tampongate than just that tampon moment. The conversation reveals much about Charles and Camilla’s private world, the people willing to keep ..read more
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