Fergie hid in world’s priciest psychedelic spa while Royal Family teeters

More notes on High-Net-Worth spirituality and the crisis of the elite

Sarah Ferguson, former Duchess of York and ex-wife of former Prince Andrew, hid away at Paracelsus Recovery in Zurich, the world’s most expensive psychedelic spa, for a month from Christmas 2025 to the end of January 2026, while she and the British Royal Family were engulfed in the Epstein global drama.

Meanwhile, her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested last week for misconduct in public office. If found guilty, he could face anything from months to life in prison. He is the first member of the Royal Family to be arrested since Charles I, who was imprisoned and then beheaded in 1649.

Anyone who has read historian Andrew Lownie’s excellent 2025 book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, or followed his Substack, knows the former Duke of York’s criminal behaviour was an open secret in the British establishment. It has been known for many years by most of the British establishment that Andrew used his position as prince and as UK trade envoy to enrich himself illegally - there have been warnings from diplomats and civil servants, but nothing was done to stop Andrew. And that is largely the fault of the Queen.

When the photo of Andrew with 17-year-old Virginia Guiffre emerged, the Queen responded by making Andrew a Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George the next day, and threatening journalists with defamation. It was made clear that if any member of the royal staff complained about Andrew, their career would suffer. Any British media that went public about his criminal activities would lose access to the Royals. As a result, courtiers helped to facilitate his criminal activities. Lownie says: ‘A lot of people enabled him. They should be called to give an account for themselves. The whole thing stinks.’

Lownie thinks Andrew could face other charges including money-laundering. He said in one interview last week: ‘The easiest way to launder money is to have dealings with the Royal Family, because their financial dealings are completely secret.’ He also thinks Andrew could face charges for selling British military and intelligence secrets. He claims that, according to a US intelligence report he has seen, Andrew was compromised by Russian intelligence, and he thinks it’s likely multiple other intelligence agencies blackmailed the former Prince through honey-traps.

Lownie speculates there is a 50/50 chance King Charles will step down as a result of the scandal, because he was warned about Andrew’s criminal behaviour years back. Charles may feel - and the public may agree - there was little he could do while his mother was alive, protecting her favourite son from the law. He kicked his brother out of the Royal Lodge last week, a day before Andrew was arrested. ‘You can’t do this to me, I’m the Queen’s second son’, Andrew reportedly wailed as he was escorted from the lodge. Well, she dead now mate. You never watched Game of Thrones?

It’s all too clear that for decades there has been ‘one rule for the royals, another for everyone else’, in Lownie’s words. And Andrew may not be the worst of them - Lownie’s previous book exposed the paedophiliac tendencies of Lord Louis Mountbatten, King Charles’ god-father. We are on the verge of a reformation of the Royal Family, an end to centuries of deference and secrecy and, perhaps, genuine equality before the law.

After the paywall, decades of grift, the Yorks’ incredible spending, especially on New Age healers and psychics, and Fergie’s weeks in the world’s most expensive psychedelic spa.