Sarah Ferguson’s lavish lifestyle exposed as Royal Lodge staff gets overwhelmed

Sarah Ferguson has reportedly left staff at Royal Lodge grappling with an “extraordinary” problem as she prepares to downsize from the sprawling Windsor property: an overwhelming number of unopened Amazon parcels.

Royal author Andrew Lownie has claimed that the former Duchess of York’s long-rumoured move from Royal Lodge has been complicated by the sheer volume of belongings she has accumulated over the years.

While speculation has swirled about where she might relocate next, Lownie suggested even Ferguson herself may not yet know.

Dismissing reports that she is planning to move into “a converted cattle shed on Princess Beatrice’s £3.5million Cotswolds estate”, Lownie told Reach PLC: “Not sure Sarah herself knows where she is going. Switzerland, Portugal, Cotswolds, Windsor, London. For the moment she can stay at Royal Lodge until October.”

But when the time does come to leave the 30-room mansion, staff may face a daunting task.

Writing on his personal Substack, Lownie said the situation mirrors what he previously uncovered while researching his book Entitled.

“I wrote in Entitled that at Sunninghill Park, there was a warehouse-style room nicknamed ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ which contained thousands of gifts,” he wrote.

“Similarly I’m told that there are so many unopened Amazon boxes at Royal Lodge that nobody knows quite what to do with them.”

He described the situation as creating an “extraordinary challenge” for those tasked with managing the household.

In Entitled, Lownie revealed that by 1995 she had reportedly amassed debts totalling £3.7 million. He also cited testimony from a former staff member who claimed the duchess regularly staged lavish banquets for herself and her two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, with much of the food allegedly going to waste.

“Every night she demands a whole side of beef, a leg of lamb and a chicken which are laid out on the dining room table like a medieval banquet that would make Henry VIII proud,” the former staffer claimed.

“But often there is just her and her girls, Bea and Eugenie, and most of it is wasted… the next day it’s thrown away.”

“Over the previous year Sarah had travelled to Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Poland and made four trips to America, each time staying at the luxury Carlyle Hotel, where the cheapest suite was £330 a night,” he wrote.

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