Sarah Ferguson pictured hiding at luxurious resort as she’s noticed for first time in 7 months
Former royal Sarah Ferguson has been seen for the first time in seven months after she started to ‘hide out’ following the release of the Epstein files, which she also featured in
Sarah Ferguson is pictured speaking in a TikTok video posted from Donegal in October 2024(Image: Sarah Ferguson/TikTok)
Sarah Ferguson has been photographed hiding out in Austria following calls for her to come clean about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Pictures show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife at a luxury Alpine ski resort. Fergie, 66, who had her Duchess of York title stripped from her last year, hadn’t been seen in public for 213 days. She hasn’t responded to calls to give evidence to US lawmakers on her Epstein links.
Fergie was spotted in a quiet Austrian ski village as she emerged from a blacked-out Mercedes people carrier near her chalet on Wednesday. Wearing a blue coat and carrying a teal raffia tote bag, her hair was tucked under a white baseball cap, reports the Sun.
She had gone missing from the public eye after the release of the Epstein files, which is when emails between herself and the paedophile financier came to light.
A source said on Wednesday: “Fergie has been keeping an incredibly low profile while high up in the Alps.
“She hasn’t been seen for a long time and has clearly wanted to keep it that way. Her choice of outfit when she popped out was obviously carefully chosen to help her avoid being recognised.
“The area is absolutely beautiful and it’s very quiet most of the time, so it’s the perfect place for a high-profile figure such as her to lie low when the heat is on.”
She was officially seen in public at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral in Westminster Cathedral on September 16. Fergie was then pictured driving out of her home in Windsor’s Royal Lodge a week later. She was last seen trying to hide in the back of a car as she arrived at the christening of her one-year-old grand-daughter Athena at London’s St James’s Palace on December 12.
The former royal, who was evicted from her home in Windsor’s Royal Lodge along with Andrew at the beginning of February, is said to have been laying “false breadcrumbs” to avoid being found. But the Sun reports that she has been using a £2,000-a-night ski chalet to hide out from the Epstein scandal.
The source said: “The Epstein Files have hit like a sledgehammer and Sarah has not wanted to be seen by anyone. She’s been effectively in hiding and can’t face up to what’s been happening.
“She’s been laying false breadcrumbs to stop people following her trail and very few people were allowed in on the secret. But she’s seen Andrew arrested and read all the headlines about the Epstein investigations and knows it’s a very grave situation.
“While she knows the scandal is not going away, she effectively has her head in the sand and has taken the decision to hide away for as long as possible.”
They continued: “Sarah lost her home when she was evicted from Royal Lodge and has nowhere else to go. She’s not invited to go to Sandringham to live with Andrew and even her two daughters have kept their distance.
“It’s the first time she has to fend for herself for two decades. She is alone but staying in a luxurious setting and is very comfortable. She rarely wants to go outside because she knows what could be waiting for her.
“But the calls for her to speak to the authorities are growing every single day — as is the speculation on where she is. She’s taking it one day at a time but the problem is, the days are now piling up and the clamour for her to speak to the authorities about Epstein and what she knows is getting louder and louder with each day that passes.”
