Fergie Confidential by Chris Hutchins

Fergie Confidential by Chris Hutchins

IT SEMS that almost every week Sarah Ferguson - the Duchess of York, known to one and all as Fergie - makes headlines with her efforts to re-brand herself and explain her troubles. There are the weight-loss problems, the ongoing differences with the Royal Family and her financial difficulties. But how did it all start? It seemed like a fairy-tale come true when Sarah married the Queen's favourite son, Prince Andrew, and became one of the best-known women in the world. She was feted wherever she went - and she went everywhere. But the Duchess's world was to come crashing down in spectacular fashion.

We all heard the rumours, now here's a book that sets out the facts about all the scandals. Finally, the explosive truth from two experts - CHRIS HUTCHINS, the writer who broke the palace-rocking story of Fergie's risquE liaison with handsome Texan Steve Wyatt, and PETER THOMPSON, a former editor of London's Daily Mirror, the paper that ran the sexy St. Tropez stories of Fergie and her financial advisor Johnny Bryan. The book also details her often-tempestuous relationship with Princess Diana and how both women decided to end their marriages.

Chris Hutchins, a writer and broadcaster, is a well-known author of celebrated biographies of the wealthy, famous, and royals. Fergie Confidential, his debut book, was an intimate biography of the Duchess of York that recounted her tumultuous marriage to Prince Andrew, the Queen's favorite son. He followed that up with Diana's Nightmare: The Family, a revelatory biography of the late Princess of Wales that cemented his reputation as a royal expert to the point where he was asked to cover Prince Charles' second marriage for American television. Elvis Meets the Beatles, a meeting he arranged during his personal contact with all five, ATHINA: The Last Onassis, a deep dive into the world of the Onassis dynasty, and GOLDSMITH: Money, Women, and Power, a biography of the late billionaire industrialist, Sir James Goldsmith, were among the books that followed. Hutchins has recently turned his attention to Russia, writing candid biographies of the country's leader, PUTIN, and the country's most well-known tycoon, ABRAMOVICH: The Billionaire from Nowhere.

The author returned to the royal scene with HARRY: The People's Prince, a fascinating book about Diana's son. 'Chris Hutchins seems to have seen and done it all,' says Mark Bolland, Prince Charles' former secretary.