Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York

Sarah
Duchess of York (more)
The Duchess opening Teenage Cancer Trust's unit in Leeds, October 2008
Born	(1959-10-15) 15 October 1959 (age 57) 27 Welbeck Street, London, England
Spouse	Prince Andrew, Duke of York (m. 1986; div. 1996)
Issue	Princess Beatrice of York Princess Eugenie of York
Full name Sarah Margaret
House	Windsor (by marriage)
Father	Ronald Ferguson
Mother	Susan Barrantes
Occupation	Author, spokesperson, film producer, television personality, philanthropist
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Sarah, Duchess of York (Sarah Margaret; née Ferguson; born 15 October 1959) is a British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She is the younger daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and Susan Barrantes (née Wright). Sarah has two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York, who are respectively seventh and eighth in the line of succession to the British throne.

Sarah Margaret Ferguson was born in 15 October 1959 at London Welbeck Hospital in London, She is the second daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson (1931–2003) and his first wife, Susan (née Wright; 1937–1998). Sarah's older sister is Jane Ferguson Luedecke, a public relations executive now living and working in Australia. After Sarah's parents divorced in 1974, her mother married polo player Hector Barrantes in 1975 and moved to Trenque Lauquen in the Argentine pampas. Sarah stayed at the 480-acre (1.9 km²) Dummer Down Farm at Dummer, Hampshire, her father's home since age 8. Major Ferguson married Susan Deptford in 1976 and had three more children: Andrew, Alice, and Elizabeth.

Sarah attended Daneshill School, Stratfield Turgis and then Hurst Lodge School, Ascot. After finishing a course at Queen's Secretarial College at the age of eighteen, Sarah went to work in a public relations firm in London. Later she worked for an art gallery, and then a publishing company.