The Duchess of York has so far been the great survivor of the royal world, bouncing back from embarrassments that would have sunk many others.
But she is now mired in a deep scandal about her connection with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that seems much harder to resolve.
Charity patronages are falling off her like autumn leaves, with seven charities no longer wanting to be associated with her as their patron or ambassador.
She's an author of Mills and Boon books now, in one of her many entrepreneurial ventures, but she will struggle to write herself a happy ending. And the efforts she's made to return to the royal fold could now go into reverse.
This latest PR disaster for Sarah Ferguson follows the publication of an email she sent to Epstein in 2011, in which she called him her "supreme friend" and said she wanted to "humbly apologise" for publicly rejecting him and knew Epstein would "feel hellaciously let down by me".
