Sarah Ferguson will be overseas for the next few weeks as she continues to look for a new home, with the deadline to vacate Royal Lodge approaching. It is reported she will be mulling over where to live next, and the move comes after Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was ordered to surrender the lease on the Windsor property.

Sources emphasise that Fergie plans to move forward independently and has not requested a royal property or special provision for herself. Although the former Duke and Duchess of York divorced in 1996, they remained amicable, and they continued to live together at the 30-room mansion in Windsor.