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Fergie Gets Back To New York as Friends Say She Wants To Leave The UK For Good
Daily Mail ^ | 5:25 PM on 26th May 2010 | David Gardner

Posted on 05/26/2010 9:48:37 AM PDT by Niuhuru

The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson told a New York crowd today of her 'pride' in her life as she fights to save her reputation over the 'cash-for-access' scandal.

Sarah Ferguson brushed off her personal crisis as she spoke as she hosted a breakfast for booksellers and librarians at the Book Expo America event in Manhattan.

'I think it is a real treat for me to be here today and I can't thank you enough for listening,' the tired-looking duchess told the supportive crowd.

The former wife of Prince Andrew was exposed at the weekend after being filmed accepting a £500,000 bribe in return for access to her ex-husband.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281505/Sarah-Ferguson-wants-leave-Britain-permanently-friends-say.html#ixzz0p3TIzfqL

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bribery; bribes; cashforaccess; duchess; fergie; newyork; ny; princeandrew; scandal
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To: Niuhuru

Another immigrant we don’t need!


21 posted on 05/26/2010 10:45:01 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: GOPsterinMA
For a carton of smokes she’ll wash and wax your car.

LOL!

22 posted on 05/26/2010 10:55:53 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Poison Pill

I wonder what her public value would be without the duchess title? No one would need to call her “your grace” anymore if QEII gave her dough in return for the title.

The whole thing’s a mite tricky.

We’ll see.


23 posted on 05/26/2010 11:02:52 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: BossLady

LOLOLOLOL.


24 posted on 05/26/2010 11:09:41 AM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Puppage

It’s true! :)


25 posted on 05/26/2010 11:14:45 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
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To: Niuhuru
She should have gotten job skills and made an honest living.

Like Koo Stark.

26 posted on 05/26/2010 11:16:14 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Maybe she look at it as sort of lobbying? Maybe she could come here and be a lobbyist???


27 posted on 05/26/2010 11:37:02 AM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Tijeras_Slim

There was nothing stopping her from taking a technical course and making a solid quid from her job. She had more than enough to take a course learning say, phlebotomy, or anything else.


28 posted on 05/26/2010 12:10:34 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: RexBeach
I wonder what her public value would be without the duchess title?

GoldenPalace.com paid 28k for a grilled cheese sandwich.

29 posted on 05/26/2010 12:19:23 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Poison Pill

Wasn’t that a gilt-cheese sandwich? :)


30 posted on 05/26/2010 12:36:22 PM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Niuhuru

She would make a perfect dem senator.


31 posted on 05/26/2010 1:31:59 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Niuhuru
She should have gotten job skills and made an honest living.

How, then, did she make it to the top?

32 posted on 05/26/2010 1:57:21 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: The Duke

Initially she was a ‘second tier sloane’ (had connections, just not massive amounts of money) and married Andrew after meeting Diana. Before marrying Andrew she supposedly did secretarial work, did work as a chalet girl to afford skiing holidays, and also supposedly did desk work for a PR company.

After the divorce she did Weight Watchers, ensdoresments (Diana was banned from engaging in commercial activity as a result of the Duchess’s actions) and children’s books. And she did do work with the movie “The Young Victoria” where she was an executive producer.

But during that time she could have paid for schooling and gotten real job skills. She was living rent free, had fifteen thousand a year, in British pounds and she could have lived with a thousand pounds a year and still had three thousand left to save. With a good job, she could have made much, much more and then lived very well while doing charity and doing some jet setting and no one would have begrudged her a good life.

Perhaps the reason the RF didn’t pay her more out of their personal funds is that each royal is somewhat expected to live indepedently. It’s a know fact that celebrities have bigger incomes yearly than the RF. Diana and Charles lived on the income of the Duchy of Cornwall, amongst other investments and made 1.7 million a year, including their civil list allotments and budget for their wardrobes from the Foreign Office.

When you really look at it, the RF operates at a smaller scale and are consistent in their budgetary needs.

The problem with Sarah is that she couldn’t stay within her civil list allotment that was supposed to be used for her offical wardrobe/duties/travel and kept blowing more and more money on her food budget, her wardrobe, and her other expenditures that weren’t part of her official life.

According to some accounts, she was blowing money on out of season fruits, fifteen different flavors of ice cream, also shopping sprees. The RF might make a lot of money, but they aren’t like the former French monarchs and they are responsible with what they eat, wear, and work to avoid being wasteful.

She married, like many women of her generation, but didn’t kepe it together.


33 posted on 05/26/2010 2:23:59 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: kiltie65

I wonder though, what would have happened if she had intorduced a terrorist to her husband. One comment mentioned how they wondered what her vetting process was.


34 posted on 05/26/2010 2:24:50 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

She’s like an answer prayer to the tabloids.


35 posted on 05/27/2010 2:25:14 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: Impy

For sure! What a (to use Limey-speak) wanker.


36 posted on 05/27/2010 7:22:25 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
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To: Niuhuru
From last year...

Cost of Royal Family rises £1.5m

The total cost to the public of keeping the monarchy increased by £1.5m to £41.5m in the 2008/9 financial year.

37 posted on 05/27/2010 7:26:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Still voteless in NY-29.)
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