She was once a royal joke – the divorced duchess who sold a diet book and tried to sell access to her husband, bringing peril to the monarchy.
How times have changed. There is no better rehabilitation engine than time and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, aka Fergie, has been through the mill to emerge even brighter on the other side.
Even before her shock diagnosis of breast cancer and single mastectomy last summer, she has been a committed campaigner on women’s health and charity