star struck marriages

Rhoda was star struck when she first realized who her former partner Evan was – or, more importantly who his parents were – and can admit now that she was more in love with the status that marrying him gave her than with him as a person – and she think Sarah Ferguson fell into the same star struck trap when she met Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.

“Like Fergie, I retained my married name after divorce and use my past relationship with a prominent family to fascinate business associates and increase my wealth,” says Rhoda, “but there the similarly between Fergie and myself ends. I wasn’t unfaithful, I didn’t go in for toe-sucking, I have a head for business and ethics that she lacks big time, I have carved out an independent life for myself and I am not the slightest bit interested in jet-setting, partying and living a star struck life, surrounded by celebrities.”

“I think Fergie’s mistake after divorce was to continue living the lavish life of a royal without the means or the class to maintain it,” says Rhoda. “She was far more dependent upon status and fame than I was, and even though she made a lot of money she frittered all of it away and magically expected the merry-go-round to last forever.”

“Being the mom of two princesses, Eugenie and Beatrice, probably made it much harder to Fergie to take the stars out of her eyes,” adds Rhoda. “Although she wasn’t entitled to round the clock police protection after her divorce, her daughters were and over time I suppose Fergie imagined that it was all for her – and at an estimated public cost of about £500,000 every year that is a heavy expense for taxpayers to bear.”

“As the princesses grew up, Fergie sadly became their playmate rather than their mother,” says Rhoda, “and I suppose she was re-living her own childhood, or the childhood that she didn’t have but yearned for.”

“Fergie and the princesses seem to be engaged in non-stop partying and jetsetting,” says Rhoda. “Fergie does some charity work, but the girls don’t work, or perform any official royal functions, and their highly trained and paid protection officers are used more as late night chauffeurs and general flunkies than bodyguards.”

“They are all living a make-believe existence, devoid of the responsibilities of real life, and it is little wonder that Fergie would develop such a magical attitude towards money and bills that she would end up in deep trouble.”

“After her divorce, she should have returned to the English countryside, married a gentleman farmer and lived the type of life that she is better suited for,” says Rhoda. “She does not have the class, build or temperament to be a royal, and because she does not receive public money she does not need to be in the public eye, yet she doggedly remained in the limelight with stars in her eyes, starved herself to be thin and jet-setted around trying to emulate Lady Diana’s good works and ended up totally out of her depth.”

“It is very hard for some people to see Fergie as a naive star-struck country girl when she jet-sets around the world giving the impression that she is still connected to the royal family – even boasting that the Queen is her 'best friend' – and making money at their expense at every opportunity she can grab,” explains Rhoda, “but a naïve star-struck country girl is exactly what she is.”

See also:

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Marriage or Emigration for Fergie?

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Fergie’s chutzpah survival

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Oprah tops Fergie’s retirement pot

Fergie Flouts Family

Fergie and the global gravy train

Greedy Fergie!

Fergie smokes, so what?

Homeless Fergie?

Fergie’s £15,000 pa was a lousy settlement

Fergie’s menopausal mania

star struck Fergie

cashing in on the family Fergie style!

Fergie’s broken homes

Is Fergie reliving her childhood?

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Sarah Ferguson’s Libran Balance

Age Secrets of Prince Andrew

Age Secrets of Sarah Ferguson

Andrew and Sarah, Duke and Duchess of York