Sarah Ferguson’s Whereabouts Unknown After Ex-Husband Andrew’s Arrest

After the arrest of Prince Andrew, questions have resurfaced about his former wife, Sarah Ferguson.

The former Duke of York, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 19 — his 66th birthday — at the home where he has been staying on King Charles’ Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

Andrew moved to Sandringham after being evicted earlier this month from Royal Lodge, his longtime Windsor home. The move followed renewed scrutiny of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Ferguson, 66, is also referenced repeatedly in materials connected to Epstein, including an email in which she asked him to “marry” her. Despite divorcing Andrew in 1996, she had continued living with him at Royal Lodge. After their eviction, a source familiar with Ferguson said she planned to move into a separate home and “forge an independent life.”

As of late last month, it was understood that Ferguson intended to spend time overseas while weighing her next steps. Her current location is not known, and her representative declined to comment.

Reports suggesting she might move into a property linked to her eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice, 37, were previously dismissed by a spokesperson. Suggestions that she could stay with her younger daughter, Princess Eugenie, 35, in Portugal were also ruled out.

On Feb. 9, the BBC reported that Thames Valley Police were investigating a complaint alleging Andrew shared confidential information connected to his former role as a trade envoy in email correspondence with Epstein.

One email released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a sender identified as “The Duke” forwarding Epstein a message titled “South East Asia Visit Reports” from Amit Patel, whose signature described him as a special adviser to the Duke of York. The email, dated Nov. 30, 2010, appears to include reports from trips to Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China tied to Andrew’s work as a trade envoy.

In another message dated Dec. 24, 2010, Andrew appears to provide Epstein with what he calls a “confidential brief” on investment opportunities in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. The region was heavily affected by the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, in which Britain was a military ally, and reconstruction efforts at the time would still have been under government control.

Both Andrew and Ferguson faced years of headlines over their connections to Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial one month after his July 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges involving minors.

After Ferguson’s 2010 email exchanges with Epstein became public, reports also emerged that he had helped cover debts she owed to staff. She later apologized in a March 2011 interview, saying accepting his help was a “terrible, terrible error of judgment,” and adding, “I abhor paedophilia.”

The following month, however, Ferguson was reported to have written privately to Epstein, apologizing for comments she said were made to protect her career and referring to him as a “steadfast, generous and supreme friend,” according to a leaked email later published by The Sun.