Fergie To Wed Count ? "The Times" June 25, 2000

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June 26 2000 EUROPE

Duchess 'as good as wed to count'

FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME

THE Duchess of York was yesterday dubbed "The Queen of Tuscany" by the
Italian press, which said she now spent so much time in Italy that she
was "as good as married" to Count Gaddo della Gherardesca, her Italian
companion.
Reports said that, despite her "readmission to the world of the
Windsors" and reports of a remarriage to the Duke of York, few people
in Britain realised that she had "another life" in Italy and
was "constantly" at the count's side. At the weekend she acted as
hostess during a festival at Count Gaddo's estate at Castagneto
Carducci, in the Maremma region of southern Tuscany.

"No one in Tuscany believes that she will remarry Prince Andrew," La
Stampa said. Referring to her as Count Gaddo's "fiancée", it said
that "the couple show the kind of great familiarity which only comes
after many years of marriage". She, however, insisted that he was "a
true friend".

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