![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/brutal-royal-reality-that-destroyed-fergie-and-andrews-marriage/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1_GettyImages-1157455192.jpg&description=Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married at Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986 but the difficult realities of being married into the royal family to someone who was dedicated to their career in the Navy soon surfaced On what would have been their 37th wedding anniversary, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are a model example of an amicable separation as they are still close friends. What's more is that they still live together at Royal Lodge on the Windsor Estate. Their set-up may appear strange to some people, but they have been dubbed 'the happiest divorced couple in the world' by their eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice. Sarah echoed her daughter in an interview, saying: "We always say we are the most contented divorced couple in the world. We're divorced to each other, not from each other." While they married in a fairy tale ceremony at Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986, the realities of marrying into the royal family and to someone dedicated to their career in the Royal Navy soon hit home. Speaking to US TV host Ernie Manouse in 2010, Sarah said: "My deal was that I was marrying my man, who happened to be a prince and a naval officer." But what I got was not the man, I got the palace and didn't get him. For our marriage, I saw him 40 days a year." Love the royals? Sign up for the Mirror's daily newsletter to get all the latest news on the Queen, Charles, Kate, Wills, Meghan, Harry and the rest of The Firm. Click here to sign up . The couple announced their separation in 1992 and finalised their divorce four years later in 1996. In a piece for the Sunday Times, Sarah explained why she continues to stay at Royal Lodge with her ex-husband, saying: "I travel a lot and I've always been able to make wherever I am home. "If I am staying in a hotel I have the same family photographs and scented candles around me. "When I'm in the UK I'm lucky enough to stay at Royal Lodge. I wouldn't call it my home as that would be presumptuous," she added. In an interview with US TV){kind=link}
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married at Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986 but the difficult realities of being married into the royal family to someone who was dedicated to their career in the Navy soon surfaced
On what would have been their 37th wedding anniversary, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are a model example of an amicable separation as they are still close friends.
What’s more is that they still live together at Royal Lodge on the Windsor Estate. Their set-up may appear strange to some people, but they have been dubbed “the happiest divorced couple in the world” by their eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice.
Sarah echoed her daughter in an interview, saying: “We always say we are the most contented divorced couple in the world. We’re divorced to each other, not from each other.”
While they married in a fairy tale ceremony at Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986, the realities of marrying into the royal family and to someone dedicated to their career in the Royal Navy soon hit home.