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Tue 07 Jul 2009No fags and no food for future princess Fergie
JULY 21st, 1986:AS ONE of The Irish Times’journalists in London in the 1980s Maeve Binchy developed considerable expertise at watching royal weddings (more anon) and the media and spin doctors’ shenanigans that surrounded them. She described the fevered final few days before the marriage in July 1986 of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew (separated 1992: divorced 1996) in this front-page piece.
When Sarah Ferguson wakes up this morning in the house of her fiancé’s grandmother, she won’t just stretch, reach for a cigarette, have a cup of coffee and toast and wonder what to do with her day, like many another horsey Sloane will do. Heaven no!
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