Sarah Ferguson reveals she has been diagnosed with breast cancer: Duchess of York has ‘successful’ operation and is recovering at home in Windsor with family after routine mammogram detects disease
- Sarah, Duchess of York, has undergone an operation to treat breast cancer
- She will discuss it on podcast ‘Tea Talks with the Duchess and Sarah’ tomorrow
Sarah, Duchess of York, has undergone an operation to treat breast cancer, it has been revealed.
The 63-year-old duchess was diagnosed after a routine mammogram, it is understood.
The author and businesswoman has been discharged from hospital today and is back at Windsor Lodge with her family.
The ‘successful’ operation was carried out at King Edward VII hospital in Marylebone, Central London, according to friends.
Another said that the mother-of-two’s prognosis was good, thanks to the cancer being spotted early.
Sarah, Duchess of York, has undergone an operarion to treat breast cancer, it has been revealed.
The 63-year-old duchess was diagnosed after a routine mammogram, it is understood
The author and businesswoman has been discharged from hospital today and is back at Windsor with her family
She is believed to have spent several days in hospital this week.
A friend stated: ‘It’s been a difficult time but she is very grateful to the medical staff who carried out the mammogram and and the medical staff who looked after her these last few days, she is incredibly thankful.’
The duchess will apparently speak about her diagnosis and treatment in an upcoming episode of her podcast ‘Tea Talks with the Duchess and Sarah’, due to air tomorrow, The Sun reports.
A spokesman for the Duchess said: ‘Sarah, Duchess of York was recently diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer detected at a routine mammogram screening.
‘She was advised she needed to undergo surgery which has taken place successfully.
‘The Duchess is receiving the best medical care and her doctors have told her that the prognosis is good. She is now recuperating with her family.
‘The Duchess wants to express her immense gratitude to all the medical staff who have supported her in recent days.
Princess Eugenie, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and Princess Beatrice (pictured at the wedding of Petra Palumbo and Simon Fraser in 2016)
Prince Andrew, Duke Of York, and Sarah, Duchess Of York, pictured driving out of Royal Lodge in Windsor
‘She is also hugely thankful to the staff involved in the mammogram which identified her illness, which was otherwise symptom free, and believes her experience underlines the importance of regular screening.’
The Duchess of York, 63, shared an Instagram post on 15 May confirming the first episode of ‘Tea Talks with the Duchess and Sarah’.
She explained it is a ‘new weekly podcast about the highs and lows of everyday life’ and would see her ‘taking on some of the biggest and strangest stories from around the world.’
On the first episode of the show, which was released last month, Fergie insisted she is ‘very shy’ and said she ‘trusts too much’ and ‘too many people.’
Meanwhile elsewhere, as her co-host Sarah Jane Thomson teased she wanted to know more about her, the royal said: ‘Do I have a boyfriend? No.’
Sarah Ferguson, 63, has revealed she ‘doesn’t have a boyfriend’ but ‘would like one’ on the first episode of her new podcast (pictured, with her ex husband Prince Andrew)
And after her co-host asked: ‘Do you want one?’ Fergie replied: ‘Yes’.
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Her comments come after years of rumours that she would one day marry Prince Andrew.
Their unconventional relationship has now developed into what Sarah describes as ‘the happiest divorced couple we know’, with the pair appearing to spend more time together than during the ten years they were actually married (when Andrew was often away on naval service).
They still share a home, living at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, the ten-bedroom former residence of the Queen Mother, although this cosy arrangement may soon come to an end as part of King Charles’s projected reshuffle of royal residences.
And the pair regularly holiday together with their daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, leading to sporadic speculation that given neither Sarah nor Andrew has found subsequent great romance, there is always the possibility they may one day remarry.
These rumours gained more impetus after the death of Andrew’s irascible father Prince Philip, who in his later years refused to countenance even being in the same room as Sarah.
Asked directly on the ITV show Loose Women if a rekindling of romance was likely, Sarah brushed the subject aside. ‘Oh, goodness me,’ she responded to the show’s presenters, ‘you’re all fairytale, you’ve all got your wands out. Andrew and I remain steadfast, in the past we’ve been co-parenting and now we’re co-grandparenting.’
A former courtier who has known Andrew for three decades observes: ‘Theirs is not a great passionate romance – they have separate bedrooms at Royal Lodge – but it’s more about the deepest form of friendship. It’s a very unusual relationship for a divorced couple, especially to the outside world, but they’re utterly devoted and would defend each other to the death.’
On the first episode of her pocast, Fergie insisted she is ‘very shy’ and said she ‘trusts too much’ and ‘too many people’ (pictured with her co-host Sarah Jane Thomson)
In another recent interview, Sarah described her relationship with Andrew as an achievement of which she was proud. ‘We’re divorced to each other, not from each other. We are co-parents who support each other and believe that family is everything. I’m proud of the job we have done together in bringing up our children and sustaining a strong family unit. Our bywords are communication, compromise and compassion.’
It is an unorthodox arrangement, of which the royal author Penny Junor observes: ‘It seems utterly bizarre, and who knows what their relationship really is. Sarah has not just stood silently by his side, she actually speaks out in favour of him.’
Elsewhere on her first podcast, Fergie insisted she is ‘actually very shy’, saying: ‘I play down to make myself very tiny to keep myself out of everyone’s way.
‘I’m frightened if I put my head above the parapet that I’ll be shot down in flames.
‘I’m coming from a very bruised place.’
The Duchess said that while she can appear to be ‘a very courageous public figure… really, I’m deeply sensitive and I mind terribly, and I’m very shy, which people don’t know’.
She said she was coming from ‘an incredibly brave’ place, adding: ‘I’ve been on the treadmill since I was 12.’
Later she said: ‘I need to have a bit more of left brain to make me a bit more business-savvy.
Fergie is far from the first royal to launch a podcast, joining the likes of Mike Tindall , Princess Eugenie and the Duchess of Sussex to have her own audio platform
‘Maybe I trust far too much and too many people.’
Meanwhile she also revealed how she confronts people trying to take photographs of her without her noticing.
She described an encounter in the security line at Heathrow’s Terminal Four during a recent trip to Croatia, when she said fellow passengers ‘surreptitiously’ took their cameras out.
She said: ‘So then I go up and say, ‘would you like a selfie?’ and they say, ‘no, no, I don’t know what you’re thinking’.
‘And then you feel like ‘oh, so sorry, how dare I presume that you would want a photograph’, when full well they wanted a photograph.’
In a post shared on Instagram announcing the her podcast news on 15 May, Fergie wrote: ‘Long-time friends and tea fans, author Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and Sarah Jane Thomson, entrepreneur and founder of First News, will be getting to the bottom of week’s talking points while enjoying a soothing cup of tea.
‘They learn about themselves, each other and give their take on some of the biggest and strangest stories from around the world.
‘No topic is off the table. No biscuit will remain undunked.’
She went on to share the hashtag #SpillTheTea on the post.
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