ROBERT JOBSON It’s time to stop tearing Fergie down for her poor choices. She is flawed, she is human… & she’s paid dearly for both
Royal expert Robert Jobson gives his thoughts on Fergie scandal
FROM the very beginning, the courtiers knew it. Lord Charteris, the late Queen’s long-serving private secretary, once dismissed her as “vulgar, vulgar, vulgar.”
It was a damning verdict from the heart of the Palace machine – and she never quite recovered from it.
For decades she has been measured, mocked, and measured again. She has paid for being herself.
Now the knives are out again.
She stood by her ex-husband Andrew. Critics now call her complicit. The public that mocked her for being flighty now mocks her for being loyal.
The facts are these: her connection to Jeffrey Epstein was extensive. Emails show Epstein claimed he supported her financially for fifteen years – not the single payment of fifteen thousand pounds she admitted in 2011.
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She sought loans of fifty to one hundred thousand dollars as late as 2010. She called him a steadfast friend after his conviction. She visited him after his release. Despite what she said publicly.
These were dreadful choices. There is no defence. But there must be a breaking point.
She is not a working royal. She is a private citizen. She has faced bankruptcy and divorce and public humiliation. Two cancer diagnoses in one year. The scrutiny never stops. The mockery never stops. The judgement never stops.
How much can one person take?
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She has spoken about food. About self-hatred. About struggling with worth. She has worked hard to help children and alleviate their suffering.
She has lived under a microscope for more than thirty years. Every mistake amplified. Every stone dissected. The Duchess of Pork. The toe-sucking photographs. The grinding humiliation. She has been mocked relentlessly for her appearance. The public eye has been cruel, unforgiving, and unrelenting.
Now she battles cancer twice. Watches her daughters carry shame that is not theirs. Watches charities cut ties. It piles on.
When does accountability become cruelty?
We say mental health matters. Prince William, Catherine and Harry have all campaigned relentlessly to raise awareness, to end the stigma. Wear ribbons. Share hashtags. Compassion.
But for someone like Sarah Ferguson – flawed and compromised the compassion vanishes. She becomes fair game. This is dangerous.
FIERCELY LOYAL TO THE LATE QUEEN
Her problems were never about greed. They were about money she could not manage. She lived too grandly. Too impulsively as a royal, then the rug was pulled from under her.
When the royals moved on, she was alone. No massive divorce deal. But millions in debt.
Failed business ventures. Legal disputes. In that desperation she took help from a wicked, evil man. Epstein. Lured into that spiders web. These are the actions of someone drowning. Not scheming. But someone who was desperate.
I have known Sarah for many years. Her charity work mattered to her. She visited refugee camps when no cameras followed. She raised funds quietly. She spoke about mental health while hers was being shredded by public opinion.
She was fiercely loyal to the late Queen. Saw Her Majesty many times before she died in 2022. Received final words. The Queen never turned away. She knew what Sarah was, her talents and her frailties.
In 2023 came breast cancer. Early 2024 brought melanoma. She called it a death sentence. A bomb. She faced mortality and still encouraged others to get screened. To survive.
Accountability does not require destruction. Context does not mean excuse. One can hold someone responsible and still see them as human.
She is not asking for pity. But we must ask: why do we judge her so harshly? For accountability? Or simply to tear down someone already torn?
SHE IS HUMAN
We should condemn Epstein. Of course we should. Andrew too. His television testimony is now doubted because he lied.
But there is a difference between enabling and desperation. Between complicity and catastrophic judgement. There is a human cost to what we do.
In hindsight everyone is brilliant. Twenty twenty vision. But those of us who lived through those years remember how opaque it all was – how well Epstein concealed what he was. How his money made people look away.
It is easy to condemn. Harder to understand without excusing. To acknowledge mistakes without erasing everything else.
Sarah Ferguson made terrible choices. She has also endured extraordinary cruelty.
She has made mistakes, but she is human. A private citizen.
Protecting her family. Surviving in a glare that will not dim, no matter how many times she falls.
She has lived her life publicly, and yet the public refuses to see her fully.
Compromised, yes. But also generous, brave, and loyal — to her children, her grandchildren, the late Queen, and her people she helped through her charity work.
Her loyalty to Andrew is not blind. It is human. It is love. It is the messy, complicated loyalty that few understand, let alone value.
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She has been mocked, humiliated, judged for decades.
Yes she is flawed. She is human. She has paid dearly for both.
