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SARAH FERGUSON AND PRINCE ANDREW ARE 'VERY CLOSE' SAYS EXPERT Sarah Ferguson – affectionately known as Fergie – and Prince Andrew married in their spectacular royal wedding in

1986. However, by 1992, the Duke and Duchess of York had a very public break-up amid a series of scandalous gaffes. That year, with the Palace harshly freezing Fergie out of royal life, the

Duchess was under intense scrutiny from the public.  RELATED ARTICLES However, well-known historian David Starkey gave his opinion that Fergie had run into trouble by bringing her

middle-class values into a royal marriage.  Speaking to Newsweek’s Russell Watson in 1992 Mr Starkey said: "The problem with the current crop of royals is that they have started

modelling their patterns of love, marriage and sex on a different class of people. “They have democratised their attitudes about marriage and have displayed the expectations of ordinary

people." Mr Watson explained: “In a successful royal marriage, the participants lead separate lives.  Sarah Ferguson; David Starkey (Image: Getty) Sarah Ferguson pictured in 1992

(Image: Getty) “They have different duties, friends and interests.  “Their children are raised for them by nannies and are viewed by appointment.  “Often they sleep not only in separate beds

but in separate apartments.  “Love sometimes develops, but it is certainly no requirement." READ MORE: Beatrice and Eugenie's heartbreaking Sarah Ferguson comment revealed Sarah

Ferguson and Prince Andrew with Beatrice and Eugenie in 1992 (Image: Getty) RELATED ARTICLES The author continued: “The very public break-up between the Duke and Duchess of York shows, once

again, what can happen when dynasts succumb to their subjects' soap-opera values.” However, in a sign of how times have changed, Mr Starkey was full of praise for the middle-class Kate

Middleton in the weeks following her royal wedding to Prince William in 2011.  In that year, he spoke to the late Sir David Tang about how Kate had helped the monarchy become “ever more

genuinely democratic”. He said: “I think what the wedding in the last few weeks has demonstrated is that its becoming ever more genuinely democratic. DON'T MISS Royal heartbreak: How

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not on the balcony for Trooping the Colour 1992 (Image: Getty) Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew together at Royal Ascot this summer (Image: Getty) “At first , of course, it was a kind of

oxymoron, it was a contradiction in terms, it was a clever selling line.  “I think the selling line is becoming real.” However, he adds: “Kate Middleton, of course, is not as common as all

that. “She is a woman of serious education – in fact the first seriously educated royal spouse of the twentieth century. Andrew and Fergie timeline (Image: Getty) “But she, of course,

represents a world outside the Palace, a world outside that privilege. “She is a supermarket trolley princess. She can confidently walk down the aisle at Waitrose and pick things off in

front of the television cameras, and still somehow contrive to be both 'common' and 'princess'."  However, in other ways, the historian argued, Prince William and

Kate Middleton are not special at all.  He told The Telegraph in 2011 that the narrative that the wedding was “revolutionary” was “absolute nonsense". MEGHAN MARKLE: EXPERT SAYS DUCHESS

NOT FIRST TO BE CRITICISED He said: “This isn’t a new beginning for the monarchy – it’s scarcely even a new chapter.” Mr Starkey reflected that many royal unions, before the accession of

the German Hanoverian monarchs in the eighteenth century, actually did not follow class-bound tradition at all. The historian also gave his opinion that Kate and William are equals in many

ways, and their romance showed how fluid the social hierarchy of Britain actually is.  He continued: “They’ve lived together, separated, got together again – they’ve done what any sensible

middle-class couple does.”