Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, television personality, and member of the British royal family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, a younger brother of King Charles III.
Ferguson attended Daneshill School, Stratfield Turgis. The staff of the school described her as a "courageous, bubbly and outgoing little girl".[5] She then attended Hurst Lodge School in Ascot.[9] She did not shine academically but showed talent in swimming and tennis.[5] At a young age, she developed an interest in skiing and later briefly worked as a chalet girl.[10] In her teenage years, she worked both as a cleaner and waitress.[11] After finishing a course at Queen's Secretarial College at the age of eighteen,[12] Ferguson went to work for an art gallery.[5] Later she worked in two public relations firms in London, and then for a publishing company.[5] Prior to marriage, she dated Kim Smith-Bingham, a stockbroker, and Paddy McNally, a motor racing manager more than 20 years her senior.[5][13]
In 1987, the Duke and Duchess of York undertook a 25-day tour of Canada.[17] In February 1987, Sarah got a private pilot's licence and, after passing a 40-hour training course that was paid for by Lord Hanson as a wedding gift, was presented with her wings at RAF Benson in December.[18][19] On 22 January 1988, during the trip to New York to attend a fundraising event, Sarah was attacked by a young man at the entrance of her hotel.[20] The man, who was screaming "murderers 3/8" and had the Irish Republican Army flag in his hands when he rushed at Sarah, was "charged with attempted assault on the Duchess and assault on a federal agent".[20] Later, a State Department press officer stated that "she was unharmed in the incident".[20] In March 1988, the Duke and Duchess of York visited California.[21] The trip was described by two British newspapers as a "brash, vulgar, excessive, weak-humored exhibition by two royals".[21] The couple was defended by city officials of Los Angeles who stated that the criticism was "awful" and offensive, and observers described the Duke and his wife's behaviour as friendly and said that they fulfilled their duties.[21] In May 1989, Sarah went on an official solo trip to Berlin.[22]
In March 2022 it was reported that the wife of jailed Turkish politician İlhan İşbilen alleged that Sarah received at least 225,000 from businessman Selman Turk, whom Mrs İşbilen is suing for fraud.[94] An additional 25,000 was sent by Turk in October 2019 to the bank account of Sarah's younger daughter, Eugenie, the second instalment of which was referenced "birthday gift", reportedly "to pay for a surprise birthday party for the Duchess".[95] Sarah was owed 225,000 by Pegasus Group Holdings for her role as brand ambassador, but she received the full amount from Turk, who was then set to reclaim the money from Pegasus.[95]
In 1990, Sarah became patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust. She has since opened most of the charity's various units, including those at Middlesex Hospital, University College London, St James's University Hospital, Cardiff University Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital.[104] Sarah began her work with people suffering from motor neurone disease in the 1990s. In her capacity as patron of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, she promoted fundraising campaigns for research about the disease and later became president of the International Alliance for ALS.[105][106] To help and support those affected by drug misuse, she joined therapy sessions at the Chemical Dependency Centre and was later made their patron.[106] In 1993, Sarah founded Children in Crisis, a children's charity focused on education and grant making to international programmes. Sarah serves as founder and life president.[107] She founded the charity after meeting a young cancer victim named Ania during her visit to Poland in 1992.[108]
Tiny (5'3"), buxom, and shapely brunette knockout Sarah Louise Young was born on April 15, 1971 in Sidcup, Kent, England. Her mother was a seamstress and her father was a structural engineer. Young was raised along with her younger brother in the country town of Hampshire, Winchester, England. In 1986 Sarah was approached in the street by a photographer; she agreed to posed for a few trial photos in the famous Page Three section of the national newspaper The Sun. The positive response said photos elicited led to an invitation for Young to join a modeling agency. Sarah left home at age seventeen to live with her boyfriend and continue modeling. She did her first hardcore shoot for Private magazine at age eighteen. Young's first hardcore sex scene was a gang bang with five men. Sarah went on to appear in a slew of explicit adult features throughout the 1990's. Young married adult film director/producer Sascha Alexander on January 13, 1991. Sarah eventually divorced Alexander several years later. She has since retired from the adult industry.
Sarah was raised in Hampshire, in southern England, with a younger brother. Her mother was a seamstress and her father a structural engineer. While growing up her ambition was to become a dentist. She refused to let anybody take photographs of her as a child because she was quite shy and introverted.
Having spent her career performing in, writing, producing and directing films, in 1997, as the porn industry began to switch to lower budget movies, Sarah Young decided to retire from the business. She has since divorced Sascha Alexander and is now studying law in the USA, hoping to become a lawyer.
Knightley is even more conscious of women's rights and related issues like the #MeToo movement which calls out sexual misconduct across the entertainment, politics and business industries, because she is raising two young daughters.
Based on the best-selling Tatiana de Rosnay novel, it begins on July?16, 1942, as 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski is arrested with most of her family in the infamous roundup of Parisian Jews. It swiftly flashes forward to 2002, as a U.S. journalist in Paris, Julia Jarmond, tries to piece together the fate of the girl and her younger brother.
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