EXCLUSIVE: Read the Three-Word Nickname Fuming Queen Elizabeth Slapped on Sarah Ferguson Before Monarch's Death
Years of scandals reportedly pushed the monarch to her limit.
Queen Elizabeth reportedly grew increasingly frustrated with Sarah Ferguson during the later years of her life, as a string of financial controversies surrounding the former Duchess of York continued to cause headaches behind palace walls.
Ferguson, 66, married the then-Prince Andrew, also now 66, in 1986 and joined the royal family during a period of intense public fascination with the younger generation of royals.
Although the pair divorced in 1996, they remained unusually close, continuing to share homes and maintain a public friendship – a dynamic that often kept Ferguson orbiting royal circles long after their marriage ended.
According to palace insiders, the mounting controversies eventually led the late monarch to privately give Ferguson a cutting nickname: