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 she was more capable of business than any man. Although she never came to like Blenheim Palace – describing it as "that great heap of stones" – she became more enthusiastic about its construction and wrote to the Duke of Somerset about the new waterworks: "I believe it will be beautiful. The Canal and Bason (which is already don[e]) look very fine. There is to be a lake & a cascade ... which I think will bee a great addition to the place". The Duchess of Marlborough fought against anything she thought was undue extravagance. She wrote to the Duke