Page 8 A minor royal wedding - but no showboating romance; Princess Eugenie, youngest daughter of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, has coped with her share of scandal and strife. Her wedding to long-term boyfriend Jack will bring her a 'pillar of support,' writes Julia Molony Sunday Independent August 26, 2018 She grovelled unreservedly in the press. She had been drunk, she said, and was in a state of "financial desperation", telling Oprah Winfrey in an interview later that year that she had been "so out of control with desperation where I'd reached the point of no return". "I think I've been living trying to be the Duchess of York," she said. "It's so difficult to explain. Living beyond my means? Yes. Trying to keep it up, keep me up, keep Sarah going." In 2011, when Prince William married Kate Middleton in an event that marked a new era for the royal family, Sarah Ferguson was not invited. 'I always used to make Beatrice go into parties first. I'd hide behind her' But if Andrew was ashamed of the behaviour of his ex-wife, his own record was not to remain unblemished for long. In 2011, he ran into trouble when his friend ffrey Epstein was exposed as a convicted paedophile. a mother of three living in Australia came forward with claims that she a een solicited into prostitution at the age of 15 by Epstein, also claiming she was forced into life as a "sex-slave" and had been coerced into sexual relations with the prince himself on three separate occasions when she was just 17. Soon after, a photo dating from 2001, emerged. In it Prince Andrew had his arm wrapped around Roberts's teenaged waist. The case was settled out of court, but Andrew's reputation was damaged, and he was forced to release a statement denying any involvement in the affair, saying "any suggestion of impropriety with under-age minors is categorically untrue". Fergie launched a fierce defence of her ex. "I won't stand by, because I know what it feels like to have salaciou