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Sarah, Duchess of York

Sarah
Duchess of York (more)
Sarah Ferguson in Leeds 2008.jpg
The Duchess opening Teenage Cancer Trust's unit in Leeds, October 2008
Born (1959-10-15) 15 October 1959 (age 57)
27 Welbeck Street, London, England
Spouse Prince Andrew, Duke of York
(m. 1986; div. 1996)
Issue Princess Beatrice of York
Princess Eugenie of York
Full name
Sarah Margaret
House Windsor (by marriage)
Father Ronald Ferguson
Mother Susan Barrantes
Religion Church of England
Occupation Author, spokesperson, film producer, television personality, philanthropist
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Full name
Sarah Margaret

Sarah, Duchess of York (Sarah Margaret; née Ferguson; born 15 October 1959), is a British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She is the younger daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and Susan Barrantes (née Wright). Sarah has two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York, who are respectively seventh and eighth in the line of succession to the British throne.

Sarah Margaret Ferguson is the second daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson (1931–2003) and his first wife, Susan (née Wright; 1937–1998). Sarah's older sister is Jane Ferguson Luedecke, a public relations executive now living and working in Australia. After Sarah's parents divorced in 1974, her mother married polo player Hector Barrantes and moved to Trenque Lauquen in the Argentine pampas. Sarah stayed at the 480-acre (1.9 km2) Dummer Down Farm at Dummer, Hampshire, her father's home since age 8. Major Ferguson married Susan Deptford and had three more children.

Sarah attended Daneshill School, Stratfield Turgis and then Hurst Lodge School, Ascot. After finishing a course at Queen's Secretarial College at the age of eighteen, Sarah went to work in a public relations firm in London. Later she worked for an art gallery, and then a publishing company.


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