Sarah Ferguson sells Belgravia townhouse to fund Windsor life

Sarah Ferguson has sold her £4.2 million Belgravia townhouse, a move that could bolster funds to keep her and Prince Andrew living at Windsor’s Royal Lodge. The two-bedroom property was bought in June 2022 in the duchess’s name, though Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were also listed on Land Registry paperwork. New documents indicate a pending sale after a deal struck over the summer, though it was not disclosed how much the 65-year-old duchess stood to gain. The home had been rented to a private tenant in recent months for an estimated £4,000 a week. Ferguson’s spokesman, James Henderson, said the duchess “wasn’t looking to sell it” but that the tenant asked to buy, and it seemed like a good time to sell. The funds to purchase the Georgian property are said to have come from money Beatrice and Eugenie inherited from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

The duchess’s spokesperson described the Belgravia asset as an investment property for her daughters, with the intention that proceeds would be reinvested accordingly. In parallel, Ferguson and her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, remain living together at Windsor’s Royal Lodge, a 19th-century Grade II-listed mansion with about 90 acres of grounds. The Windsor estate carries a hefty upkeep bill—reported at roughly £400,000 a year—and King Charles III has been cited in reports as pressing for a downsizing or relocation as part of broader royal cost-cutting considerations.

The sale of the London property unfolds amid renewed scrutiny over Ferguson’s past and her associations. In 2011, emails surfaced in which Ferguson apologized for a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a later public-relations storm that has resurfaced in coverage this year. In September 2025, reports described a bombshell email in which Ferguson was said to have misstated her ties with Epstein, triggering a wave of consequences for her charitable patronages. By late September, multiple charities had ended formal ties with Ferguson in response to the revelations about Epstein.

The broader Royal Lodge situation has long been the subject of public interest given the couple’s ongoing residence there and the royal family’s cost-cutting discussions. Andrew paid millions to settle a civil case with Virginia Giuffre in 2022, and Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail in 2019, remains a focal point of ongoing media coverage and public scrutiny. The sale of the Belgravia property—and the potential reinvestment of proceeds—comes as part of a continuing dynamic in which the duchess and her former royal husband navigate financial and personal considerations in the public eye while maintaining a life at Windsor.