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Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, reportedly attempted to date Grand Slam and 15-time major champion Tiger Woods following her divorce from Prince Andrew, according to a bombshell new book.
An excerpt from royal biographer Andrew Lownie's Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York obtained by the Daily Mail, claims that Ferguson, who was married to Prince Andrew from 1986 to 1996, confided in Piers Morgan that she found Woods to be "gorgeous" and made a 1,500-mile trip to meet the legendary golfer. Fergie was photographed hugging Woods after his 1997 win at the Byron Nelson Tournament in Texas, and once again at the 2019 Masters Tournament, Woods' last career major victory.
Lownie claims that Ferguson tried to turn her relationship with Woods into a romantic one, telling Morgan that she would “follow him around the [golf] course for a bit and see how I get on.” Morgan, however, claimed that Woods' busy schedule at the time would've likely prevented him from "dating royals."
“Poor old Tiger isn’t going to know what’s hit him,” Morgan allegedly told Ferguson, according to Lownie.
Ferguson was also reported to have planned to get drinks with John F. Kennedy Jr. during her 1997 trip to the United States, "plagued" actor Kevin Costner with "raunchy phone calls" and was interested in a romance with actor George Clooney, according to the book. The Duchess of York and Prince Andrew, who share two daughters, still reside together on the grounds of Windsor Castle despite their divorce.
Prince Andrew, who reached a settlement in 2022 with the late Virginia Giuffre, a woman who accused him of raping her when she was a teenage victim of Andrew's friend, late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was described as being "unbelievably cruel" to staffers privately, which included calling one employee a "f**king imbecile," according to the book.