Poor Fergie’s Latest Flameout
Tina Brown asks: ‘Does any member of the cheesy celebrity class get caught more often than the luckless Fergie?’ Tina goes on to remind us why Fergie has had to shill for so much crap over the years: ‘Thanks to some misplaced notion that she still had a relationship with the queen worth preserving, Fergie got stiffed, intimidated by royal lawyers into walking away from her marriage with no house, no income, and an unbelievably paltry £15,000-a-year settlement.’ Diana was much cannier: unlike Fergie, she had her own trust fund, and extracted a big payout from the Queen in the divorce from Charles.
