Wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson stress and the couple's estrangement. Andrew and Sarah announced their separation on 19 March 1992, and divorced on 30 May 1996. After the couple's divorce, Sarah lost the style "Her Royal Highness", becoming "Sarah, Duchess of York", and she was no longer a British princess. Wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson The wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson was held on 23 July 1986, at Westminster Abbey in London, England. Prince Andrew, the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sarah Ferguson, the daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough of Whig ministers. King George also had a personal friendship with the Marlboroughs; the Duke of Marlborough had fought with him in the War of the Spanish Succession, and John and Sarah made frequent visits to the Hanoverian court during their effective exile from England. George's first words to Marlborough as king of Great Britain were, "My lord Duke, I hope your troubles are now over;" Marlborough was restored to his old office of Captain-General of the Army. Sarah was relieved to move back to England. The Duke of Marlborough became one of the king's close advisers, and Sarah moved