Why Did Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson Divorce If They’ll Just Continue Living Together?

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have been divorced for over a decade, but it has been revealed that they still together at the Royal Lodge.

On the online forum site Quora, royal fans are wondering why the Duke and Duchess of York still had to divorce each other if they could actually under the same roof.

Burney Marsh, a professor of writing and linguistics, said that the divorce had to happen because Ferguson was unfaithful to Prince Andrew. Even if the former couple still loves each other today, something had to be done after Ferguson’s toe-sucking scandal made headlines years ago.

But Andrea Simpson raised a good point about the royal couple’s relationship status. She said that Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie’s mom didn’t actually divorce Prince Andrew beyond the paperwork. What she did was she divorced the royal family.

“I don’t think she ever stopped loving Andrew but I think she struggled a lot with the constraints and rules of the royal family. She and Andrew stayed in the large house they shared when the children were small, but she has an apartment in New York too,” she said.

Nigel Boon, a vicar retd at the Church of England, said that Prince Andrew and Ferguson don’t live together literally. Rather, they live in the same building but they occupy different households. As such, their rooms are also different.

Boon also said that despite all of the requests from royal fans for the former couple to remarry, no such thing will happen.

“The visual and public evidence of a rekindling of their close relationship is just not there; even at the wedding of their daughter they were clearly uncomfortable together,” he said.

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson tied the knot in 1986 after Princess Diana introduced them to each other a year earlier. However, their marriage ended up in a divorce 10 years later due to a number of reasons.