An unnamed insider told Heat magazine that Sarah Ferguson is very bitter, feels wronged by everyone in the family, and when she has had a couple of drinks unloads on Camilla specifically. They were very close friends for years. Ferguson feels incredibly betrayed.
Let us note immediately that this sourcing is what it always is. An unnamed insider speaking to a celebrity magazine about what someone says after a couple of drinks. This is not testimony. It is not documentation. It is the specific quality of sourcing that the British press deploys when it wants to establish a narrative without the accountability of a named witness.
But the broader picture being assembled across multiple sources this week is worth examining because it reveals something real about how this institution manages its internal relationships in crisis.
Ferguson blames Camilla. According to a separate book by Angela Levin, Andrew tried to have Charles and Camilla's 2005 wedding cancelled, was quite poisonous and mean about Camilla, and remained so hostile about her acceptance that it has apparently never been forgiven. Camilla's allies reportedly feel Andrew was deeply unhelpful when support would have meant a great deal, and did not speak up for Charles and Camilla when they were fighting for royal acceptance after Diana's death.
So to summarise the relationship web as it currently exists.
Andrew, under criminal investigation, living in a caravan at Sandringham, was hostile to Camilla for years and tried to cancel her wedding. Camilla's allies resent Andrew's hostility and lack of support during the difficult years. Ferguson, whose emails to Epstein are now public, blames Camilla for her downfall. Ferguson and Andrew, despite being divorced, apparently still have a complex entangled dynamic around their daughters, their finances and their mutual situation. Beatrice and Eugenie are navigating all of this while being managed in and out of royal photographs with the agreement of the King. Charles is going to Washington. William is in Norfolk. The files keep releasing.
And the Express has published a piece about who Ferguson blames next to a related article titled Harry and Meghan's tragic PR stunt with their own children proves one thing, which refers to the thirty three second Instagram video of Harry skiing with Archie.
The editorial architecture of that page is the story within the story. A mother posting a video of her husband and son skiing is described as a tragic PR stunt. Ferguson blaming Camilla after the Epstein files destroyed her reputation and her business is presented as straightforward royal gossip. The moral calibration required to produce that editorial layout simultaneously is considerable.
But back to Ferguson and the specific claim that she blames Camilla.
The more accurate account of Ferguson's downfall is not that Camilla failed to protect her. It is that Ferguson chose to describe a convicted sex offender as her spectacular and supreme friend. That she emailed him urgently needing twenty thousand pounds for rent the same day she publicly disavowed him. That she took her daughters to have lunch with him days after his release from prison. That the emails in the Department of Justice archive document a relationship that was considerably more extensive and considerably more recent than Ferguson had acknowledged publicly.
Camilla did not cause any of that.
The emails caused that.
Ferguson's choices caused that.
The same ecosystem that spent years being genuinely cruel about Camilla, that called her a Rottweiler and worse, that documented her relationship with Charles in the most hostile possible terms during the Diana years, is now being deployed by Ferguson as the receptacle for her anger.
It is the oldest move in the institution's playbook.
Find someone to blame.
Make sure it is someone other than yourself.
Brief it to Heat magazine.
Unnamed insider.
After a couple of drinks.
The files are in the archive.
The emails are in the archive.
The thirty three second video of Harry skiing with Archie is also in the archive.
The Express described one of those as a tragic PR stunt.
And not the one you might expect.