Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew have a 'secret son' according to an outrageous and bizarre report.
The former couple had daughters Princess Eugenie and Beatrice but split before they had chance to try for a much-longed for boy, claims Australian magazine, New Idea .
Instead, they considered their nephew Peter Phillips their surrogate son, according to the report, which says they grew even closer after Peter's parents Princess Anne and Mark Phillips separated in 1989.
“Fergie and Andrew have often called Peter their little boy. They were incredibly close and he was like the secret son they never had,” a source sensationally claims.
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“They love their daughters so much, but they always loved the idea of having a baby boy in their lives – it was their one regret, that they didn’t try for another baby in the hope he would be a boy.
“And when they split 23 years ago they were sad when they realised it would never happen for them.”
Andrew and Fergie remain incredibly close.
So much so that they share a £13million ski lodge in the swish Swiss resort of Verbier and apparently still live together at Windsor's Royal Lodge.
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In 2000 she even claimed she and Andrew had thought of remarrying, but said Prince Philip wouldn't allow it.
And in 2010 she admitted that if they had their time again, they would stand up to those who pushed them apart.
“Both Andrew and I… both of us say now if we could go back we would definitely play it differently and we should have learnt how to play the chess game differently.
“And maybe we have still been together because we would have said ‘no ‘to being separated just after our wedding.”
In 2017 she set tongues wagging when she told an Australia radio show that they 'never really left each other.'
And Fergie once went as far as to confirm she is still very much in love with Andrew.
“I think the love I had for him then, is the love I still have for him now. I still married the best and the greatest gentleman that I know,” she told Ernie Manouse in 2010.
"We are the happy ever after, it’s just not about marriage. It’s more about this extraordinary friendship we have.
“Andrew and I, we have a love which is unfathomable, it’s so great and the two girls love it.
“Should we be married? I don’t think we’re meant to be married.
“I think I am free and wild and going around, but nothing will take his place in my heart.”
Mirror Online has contacted reps for Prince Andrew for comment.
