The organisation Sarah Ferguson founded in 2020 has quietly vanished from the public register of charities. No statement, no final campaign, no goodbye. Just one more name deleted from a list.

Formally, things started falling apart back in February, when the charity announced a temporary closure and did not explain why. Since then its social media profile has been unavailable, the website is down, and the company register shows the status "closed". Now the closure is officially permanent too.

When it was founded, the organisation presented itself with a mission that sounds good at any conference: supporting field work against humanitarian and environmental crises, against hunger and against cycles of extreme poverty. Five years on, all that remains of it is an empty web address. Who answers to the people who were promised that support?

The reason nobody says out loud

Ferguson has not appeared in public for months. In 2025 a string of charities dropped her after it emerged she had written to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, addressing him as a "supreme friend" - and that after she had publicly disowned him in front of the media. A name appearing in documents does not mean that person committed a crime, but in the world of philanthropy reputation is the currency, and hers is already spent.

What followed looks like a free fall. After moving out of Royal Lodge, according to the British press, she stayed with her former partner Paddy McNally at his chalet in Verbier, valued at 15 million pounds. Before that, in March, she was seen at a clinic costing up to 14,000 pounds a week. This week it emerged that McNally had died at the age of 88 after a long illness - he was in a relationship with her for three years, from 1982 to 1985.

The happiest divorced couple in the world

Sarah married the then Prince Andrew on 23 July 1986 at Westminster Abbey, with millions watching the wedding on television. Their daughters Beatrice and Eugenie were born in 1988 and 1990. The couple separated in 1992 and divorced four years later, but then lived together at Royal Lodge for nearly two decades. "We are the happiest divorced couple in the world. We're divorced to each other, not divorced from each other," she said in 2018.

Today Andrew lives at Wood Farm Cottage on the Sandringham estate, waiting for the renovation of Marsh Farm to finish so he can move in permanently. He has a roof over his head and a surname that still opens doors. She has a closed foundation and somebody else's chalet.

The Balkans know this scene by heart: the charity as a garment worn while it is fashionable and discarded once its owner is no longer welcome. The only difference is the number of zeros in the budget.