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 independence. Sarah continued to appeal against court decisions which ruled that funding for Blenheim should come from the Marlboroughs' personal estate, and not the government. This made her unpopular; as a trustee of her family's estate, she could easily have afforded the payments herself. She was surprised by the grief she felt following the death of her eldest living daughter in 1733. Sarah lived to see her enemy Robert Walpole fall in 1742, and in the same year attempted to improve her reputation by approving a biographical publication titled "An Account of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough from her first