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# Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, photographed by Holly Fernando for The Telegraph
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gertsoginia-iorkskaia-sara-fergiuson-v-obektive-kholli-fernando-dlia-the-telegraph/
- Published: 2021-07-24T09:08:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:40:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Interviews, Books, London, Monarchies, Observations, People

From the interview we learn that she is now the author of 77 books (for children) and has at last written a novel for adults, Heart for a Compass, about the vicissitudes of court life in the Victorian era, told through the story of her great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott. She parries any unwelcome question with remarks about this debut.

Sarah employed an interesting device: when the interviewee proposes to separate her various personas in order to avoid awkward turns of phrase, the 61-year-old royal declared at once that she is at present neither the Duchess nor Fergie, but simply Sarah.

Judging by what one reads, a new stage is beginning in the life of the Duchess of York in her seventh decade. She wishes to present herself as a serious woman, a venerable mother and a philanthropist, and to retouch a little the earlier image of the eccentric and shameless red-headed otter, an endeavour wholeheartedly supported by Buckingham Palace.

PS The photo shoot is lovely, the styling excellent.

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