It’s the headline no one saw coming and the story that seemed to take the story of Sarah Ferguson to a new point of bizareness.
While the last vestiges of ‘good old sport’ Fergie have fallen away in recent months, after the revelations of the extent of her links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, her ability to shock remains intact.
The latest news on Ms Ferguson centres on a claim that she discussed a reality TV show in which she would clone the last corgis owned by Queen Elizabeth II and try to sell the result.
The Mail on Sunday, in an exclusive story, reported that Sarah Ferguson was in talks with a TV company following the death of Queen Elizabeth II about a number of projects and one of those floated was the idea of attempting to clone the final pets of the late Monarch.
Cloning animals is illegal in the UK. However, it is not against the law to take a specimen of an animal’s skin and send it abroad to a country where cloning is permitted.
In response to the claims, a spokesperson for Sarah Ferguson said she had ”never progressed any discussions” and ”withdrew from them of her own accord”. The statement added that ”she listens to TV proposals all the time but that doesn’t mean she is going to go through with them. If she had briefly seemed enthusiastic, that is just who Sarah is.”
The spokesperson added ‘Sarah never had any intention of monetising the corgis.”
The Mail on Sunday report also said other projects were considered including a show where Fergie would attempt to breed the corgis. The paper said she had been in talks with Halcyon Studios about shows involving the dogs.
The corgis are Sandy and Muick, the last pets owned by Queen Elizabeth II. The late Monarch was known for her love of corgis and the breed became synonymous with the royals, thanks to her devotion to them. During her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, a special social media emoji of a corgi was developed to highlight posts about the celebrations.
Queen Elizabeth II bequeathed her much loved pets to Sarah Ferguson to care for following her death in September 2022. Sandy and Muick also attended the late Queen’s funeral, being walked bout to watch her cortege pass as it made its final journey to St. George’s Chapel, Windsor where Elizabeth II was laid to rest on September 19 2022. Sarah Ferguson was among the mourners.
On the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, Fergie posted a photo of herself with the corgis on her own social media.
Cloning involves taking cells from an animal and inserting them into an egg which has had all its original DNA removed. It is then used to create an embryo. Often, in dog cloning, several attempts are needed to successfully create a puppy. There are also concerns about whether cloned pets have more abnormalities.
Sarah Ferguson lost her courtesy title of Duchess of York in October 2025. She said she would no longer use it and then King Charles asked the Lord Chancellor to remove the title of Duke of York from the Roll of Peerage, meaning it was no longer available for anyone to hold. Sarah Ferguson had been known as Sarah, Duchess of York since her divorce from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 1996. She lost her HRH at the same time.
In recent months, the extent of her friendship with late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, has become clear as she appeared many times in the papers linked to his case that have been released. She also calls him the brother she never had. The papers also show she took her daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, to visit him after he had been released from prison. The two princesses were both adults at the time of the visit.
Now, a congressman is called for Sarah Ferguson to appear before the congressional committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein. Suhas Subramanyam wants her to appear before the House Oversight Committee to talk about what she knows.
