Release and Recent Royal Controversies

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There was a pop culture reference, I'm afraid Look who you're talking to While her marriage to the disgraced Nce, formerly known as Prince Andrew, ended over thirty years ago, we Brits know her best as a professional hanger on who the firm never quite shook off. and one who Absolutely one hundred million percent knows where the bodies are buried And that's why they can't. M, yes Since the nineteen eighties, the tabloids have slated old Vergs for everything from her fashion sense to her spiraling debts and embarrassingly salacious love life, who thought she could have been upstaged Just this year, twenty twenty six. She found herself in hot water again all over her alleged links. to Megapedo himself Jeffrey Epstein. We're winding back to a time when Fergie's most controversial associate was a totally different criminal herer former dresser slash Bie Jane Andrews An ordinary Northern lass plucked from obscurity into a job at Buckingham Palace in the roaring eighties This one's plain Jane. latched onto high society and refused to let go. Big shoulder pads, big hair and an even bigger budget She wielded Her Highness's maxed out credit cards on Harrard shopping sprees and rub shoulders with aristocrats and bankers when she was off the clock So how did Jane Andrews, this modern day cinderella, go from Holiday on Yachts viciously stabbing wealthy boyfriend. to death after he refused. to put a ring on it The fatal attraction killer at her old Bailey trial in two thousand one Press painted Jane Andrews as a gold digging bunny booiler who let ambition turn deadly Mhm If you believe her supporters, was she a battered woman who finally snapped Whever you believe This is one story the royals probably wished had stayed in the Duchess's rather cavernous closet I'm Suruti I'm Hannah And this is red handed Sorry, I'm smirking because I was trying to make a joke about my drag name being Duchess Cavvernous's Closet I need to workshop it, but there's something in there I'm bending Born in nineteen seventy six in the Lincolnshire toown of Cleetorp, Jane Andrew's early years were a world away from the palace she'd one day be sacheting around with her sewing kit She came from an average working class family. Her dad, David was a joiner by trade whilst her mum June as a social worker and later as a primary school assistant As the youngest of three kids and the only girl Jane was her family's little princess A gifted and clever child, she got into grammar school And she had big dreams to go with it. That is Until financial troubles forced the Andrews clan to move into a smaller house in the nearby seaside town of Grimsby. with only an outdoor toilet L your old house not I miserable Dodgy plumbing would be the least of the Andrew' family troubles Jane's mental health took a turbulent turn in her teenage years. when she suffered from anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and an eating disorder and age just fifteen. After her mum learned she'd been repeatedly bunking off from school, Jane attempted suicide for the first time by overdosing on painkillers Emotionally fragile and desperate for male approval, Jane got pregnant and had an abortion at seventeen, which her worried family tried their best to sweep under the rug Because what the Andrews lacked in money and status they made up for pride Rather than seeking professional help for their intense daughter, Jane's parents gave her the well intentioned yet misguided advice followed by working class brits for time and memorial just to keep hatchching up and never let others know that she was struggling Ironically, this stiff upper liip approach wasn't all that different to the unofficial motto of her future bosses Never complain. N explain. Not that Jay knew that yet, of course For Jane, Grimsby had lived up to its name and she was desperate to escape after scraping together three O levels Jane did a foundation level fashion course at Grimsby College of Ar be her ticket out of that What she got was decidedly less glamorous Depending on who you ask, Jane either worked as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer's or for their head office as a lowly children's wear designer. Either way, it wasn't exactly the high powered fashion career that Jane had dreamed of Grimsby in the eighties and now probably, to be honest was better known for dock yards than runways And if you want to make it in fashion, the real opportunities were down in London. So in nineteen eighty eight twenty one year old Jane responded to a mysterious ad The lady. which is a magazine, apparently at the time. And o my go, you don not know about the lady? I've never heard of the lady. Okay, so the lady was where you would advertise if you were a housekeeper or a nanny, like anything like that. So if you wanted a domestic help of any description, you would post an ad in The Lady and I'm sure it was still going uill the nineties or something like that. I remember my mum talking about the lady, yeah. Okay, interesting. All right. so yeah, she responds to a job that was advertised in the Lady magazine personal dresser job in the Capitol Six months later, an envelope from Buckingham Alice. landed on the door mat of Jane's house It was an invitation of you with Sarah The Duchess of York Well, I've just checked myself, The lady has never ended. It has been a continuous publication since eighteen eighty five. It's actually England's longest running Magazine for Women Oh, there you go. F f there you have it funun fact Jane rocked up in London with just a tenor in her pocket and a dream She took a taxi to the palace, aced her interview, and was offered the job on the spot And just like that the very first die was rolled. in the reinvention of Jane Andrews She swiftly shook off her old, troubled teen self and rebranded herself in the image of the Duchess dressing just like her And even dyeing her mousy hair red Jane's friend, Basia Brigs said that they look like twweedled dum and tweedled D Calling Jane's devotion to Fergie, downright loopy palace biographer Ingrid Sewward calls Jane herero worshihiping, her new boss I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it? It's not hard to understand why. No. Of course, it's like for Jane coming from this what would have felt to her like a dire situation that she wasn't able to get out of Suddenly you get calledght up by fucking Sarah Ferguson. thinkink what you want of her and I certainly do. She was the fucking Duchess of York and she's pulled you out of nowhere And she's given you this golden ticket to like what you think is going to be this unbelievable new life. Of course you would worship her It would be bizarre if she did anything else. It's like, she has risen you up to this new status surprised and maybe we'll come onto it This is how Sarah Ferguson hired her personal dresser through the Lady magazine I think it was quite common I think if you're running a stately home or whatever you'd be looking in the lady, I would say Yeah, I guess it's like such a personal job like attached to her you would think she would only do it through like, I don't know, royal recommendations or like, you know, severe nepotism of like you would only hire the daughter of like some whatever random aristocrat or something Like it is interesting that they're like, yeah, sure, Jane, you waste it. We'll hire you. now. Great, I guess Yeah, Fergie's not known for doing what she's told though, is she? And also at this stage in history, nobody's admitted that Andrew's a nce yet. So this is all glamour. this is all straight to the top And Jane wasn't content with just being the Duchess's latest servant Jane wanted to become part of her world The only trouble It's the moment Jane opened her mouth It became embarrassingly obvious that she was an outsider The other royal staff mocked her for her common humberside accent, taking the piss out of the way she said words like bath and grass, bath, grass, glass path, etcetera Never one to give up without a fight Jane made extreme efforts. to fit in She elongated her vows and put on affectedly posh manners to the point where the Duchess herself affectionately nicknamed her Lady Jane It was, quite frankly a master class in overc comppensating What are you supposed to do? Like They can smell it on you a mile off anyway. Like there is no Do you remember when they tryed telling us though that Kate was a commoner It was ridiculous, yes. Oh he's married a commoner. He's married a commoner. I was like, Well, that's what they said about Diana too. She's a Spencer Anyway, no matter how much Jane played the part She was still, however, just the help Her official job title was Sarah Ferguson's personal dresser a role which, quite aptly required her to wear an impressive number of different hats Her duties included maintaining the Duchess's wardrobe. curating her distinctive and flamboyant style ironing, sewing, fetching accessories, and so on and so on The best bit is that she used to go on Pink sprees. with Fergie's infamous credit card Now there's a juicy titbit of controversy here that's worth mentioning Royal sources describe the period of John's employment as quote unquote The dark days, the mad days, where the Duchess's overdraft was in the millions And there was, quote, no accounting. Yeah not just financial, lack of accounting. a lack of accounting for behaviors of princes. I seem to remember So young Jane allegedly had Cart Blanche to spend that money as she pleased. And if you believe Palace rumours, she took full advantage of the situation like helping herself to design a gear on work shopping trips for the royal wardrobe. with a One for her, two for me attitude that Fergie allegedly turned a blind eye to Anden there's the mystery of how on a relatively modest salary of eighteen thousand pounds a year the equivalent to about fifty one thousand pounds in today's money Jhane somehow managed to buy a brand new flat in Battersey Park reportedly keep fifty thousand pounds in her bank account at the same time Nothing was ever officially proven But eyebrows were certainly raised Even if she wasn't dipping into the royal cookie jar Jane's job gave her access to something even more valuable. sort of social capital that she'd never had before As the newest member of London's Hoy tooity Sloan Ranger scene Jane Hobnobb with old money tos like she'd been born with a silver spoon in her mouth just like the rest of them Off duty, she could be found partying in Chelsea bars and champagne tents at the races with a string of wealthy eligible bachelors And soon enough, one of them made an honest ish woman out her Christopher Dun Butler was an IBM banking exec twenty years Jane senror The sort of settled older man Jane hoped could look after her and provide the stability that she so desperately graved But after their whirlwind romance and wedding in nineteen ninety Jane realized Christopher was more of a pipe and slippers kind of guy and Jane Need. isten Their relationship fizzled out Jane indulging in multiple flings with other men Around this time, Jane's boss found her own love life very publicly hitting the rocks After Fergie split from former Prince Andrew in march nineteen ninety two Five months later in the infamous suucking scandal on holiday with her so called Fancial addvisor Viewer discretion is advised if you do decide to Google this particularly notorious picture It's not that bad sust a bit of tow action. No Is it Sarah Pergerson sucking someone's toes? Be that is absolutely not something I ever need to see. I just mean in the context of the things we usually give warnings for of what you should Google. I think it's really low down on the scale So having Well and truly put her foot in it with this later patrovversy The Duchess became an even bigger laughing stock than ever before, in the eyes of the public. bearing in mind this is a woman about whom the tabloid once genuinely ran a poll asking, Would you rather shag Fergie or a goat I'm not Fergie's biggest fan, but that's so fucking horrible. You fuck up man Naturally during this tough period The Duch has leaned on her closest employee for more than just orial advice. She and Jane bonded over their mutual love woes, with Fergie even dedicating one of her travel books to her faithful assistant saying,Qote, whoose loyalty and kindness knows no bounds Jane was buzzing to have become the Duchess's bosom buddy at long last likeike all good things It wouldn't last forever The first professional hiccup cameame in nineteen ninety five When Jane accidentally allowed baggage containing a diamond necklace and bracelet wedding gifts from Fergie's mum in law, the actual quQeen. to be checked in with all the other regular Joe's luggage on a flight Surprisingly The jewels were knicked While Fergie reportedly stuck up for Jane amid calls for her to be sacked Their professional relationship never quite recovered The cock upp coincided with Jane's marriage crumbling Her long suffering hubby, Christopher filed for divorce that year, fed up with her cheating and social climbing Still, Jane swiftly set her sights on even bigger and better things and even richer men She briefly dated a guy called Dimitri Horn, the stepson of a Greek shipping magnate But he called things off when it became clear that Jane was much more invested than he was Jane was not having any of that After the breakup, Jane dug her heels in and started stalking Dmitri, hounding him with threatening phone calls and leaving notes on his car Oh She even broke into his Kightsbridge flat and trashed the place in a fit of rage Dimitri alleged that she scratched his car, stole his Bulgari watch and fraudulently cashed a check for eight thousand pounds from his brother's account Tick up to the chase, Little Jane Andrews had gone a bit Bunny Boiler By the time she finally accepted that it was really over Jane fell into a depressive episode making another suicide attempt that she survived without treatment Still, Jane was determined to find her fairy tale prince and staggered back onto that horse No matter how many frogs, Jane kissed Thanks stop with several short lived flings. with various royal journalists and hangers on over the next few years. All of her boyfriends ended up finding her clingy and possessive Jane would go into scorned lover mode, refusing to accept that it was over and displaying vindictive and volatile behaviour One man claimed that she screamed and hurled ornaments at him Wh several reported her lying about being pregnant and having miscarriages or abortions. It was all part of a pattern that Jane would resort to repeatedly whenever she felt rejected. Wild mood swings, intense ups and downs. Threats of sel har The one constant thread in Jane's unstable life was her relationship with her boss But by the late nineties, even that was starting to fray. Fergie's latest love interest was a Tuscan aristocrat, Count, Gado deella gur fucking what Garasca Count Gaddo Della. Gariska Now Did she I don't know, but thank you for your unwavering support According to Palace Gossip, Count Gaddo also had a soft spot for Jane, an awkward detail that allegedly drove a wedge between the once close women Jane was hurt when a freshly divorced Vergie snubbed her thirtieth birthday party instead sending a gift of a small crucifix necklace, that certified Poschu pal Basia Briggs described as A little nothing the sort of thing you find in a cracker No dear. notot for the big three O are in their crackers 'causeuse I've always got like little screwdriver, maybe a kazoo Pen last year was great. What It's like Ggle. When it'es at home I think it just Bable, I think, but let me double I did look at aimer a showy, small trinket or decorative item that typically has no real value or practical purpose Whether or not the rumors were true, The tear was clearly forming between Jane and the now Duchess of York She just couldn't sew back together In november nineteen ninety seven, Jane's world fell apart when she was unexpectedly made redundant. Losing her job as Fergie's dresser A almost a decade Now while the official line from Buckingham Palace was that it was all about cost cutting Some reckon it had more to do with the alleged behind the scenes drama The news came as a huge blow to Jane who sank into her deepest funk yet. She received an official diagnosis of depression for where she startsed taking medication Jane also shut a lot of weight and started losing her hair And she was diagnosed with PCOS, which is now known as PMOS. Basically means that lotots of hormonal issues which just adddd to this already incredibly shit sandwich she's munching down The most laughable thing about So it's polycysticovarian syndrome as well PCOS stands for Do you know what? it's absolutely nothing to do with Sists Hm Nothing So that's how little we know Mm. Yeah Make sense Now, a journalist that Jane dated briefly around this time said that it was to exaggerate the devastating effect that the redundancy had on Jane who became a fragile mess of anxieties and insecurities and struggled to adjust to life outside the firm Not only did Jane feel personally betrayed claiming for he had promised her just weeks ago that she would quote, be with her for life but it rocked our entire sense of identity She'd reinvented herself purely based on her proximity to high society. So without the job that had put her there Who was Jane Andrews Unable to face returning to Grimsby with her tail between her legs, Jay needed a way to anchor herself into the world she desperately latched ono And in nineteen ninety eight, she found one. Mutual friendriends introduced her to Thomas Tommy Cresman the rich boy of her dreams A former stock broker who ran a successful car accessories business Tommy came from an upper class family who ran the largest chain of Ford car dealerships in Europe privately educated trust fund kid he liked to work hard and play hard Tommy's friends described him as a confirmed bachelor who loved fast cars and boats and while he was Charming and warm No woman had ever been able to tie him down at least. Not yet. Because after a failed two month stint as a PR consultant at the Swanky Claragees Hotel And a dull sales job at the Night Bridge jewelry Shop Annabelle Jones Jane now seemed to have set her sights on her next full time position The future Mrs. Creresman. Jane moved into Tommy's Fullham Bachelor pad after just a few months of dating with pals suspecting that she used a wrist injury as an excuse to get her feet under the table Now in public, the pair seemed very happy. They were high flying, they would post dinner parties. If you looked just a bit more closely The cracks were there from the start. Jane apparently made no secret of her wish for Tommy to commit to her and several friends felt that their relationship wouldn't last since Jane was just too intense for Tommy As time went on, those cracks widened into ruptures that threatened to explode Just six months in Tommy confided in his mum about Jane's obsessive behavior saying he was thinking of ending it but was worried about how she'd react Because Celta Prez Jane was up to her old tricks threatening to throw herself in the river or take an overdose every time they argued Their relationship grew increasingly toxic with frequent rs On one occasion Jane left a drunken sobbing voicemail, referring to herself Loy Bin Janie sccreaming that Tommy didn't care about her walking home alone Friends describe how he would walk on eggshells around Jane terrified of threats that she would hurt herself whenever she felt wronged by him. Tommy was sick of the constant drama But he was too afraid to push Jane's limits by ending it Still, the couple stayed together for over two years According to Jane's later claims, Tommy had very specific tastes in the bedroom particularly liked her to dress up. skkimpy costumes for role playay. He had a thing for leather and a particular predileiction for anal sex Jane later insisted that she never liked these kinks, but she went along with them because she desperately wanted their relationship to work Even so, during their explosive rows, she'd often threatened to humiliate Tommy by spilling the beans about his dirty habits to his family members and business associates they're all fucking out too. that's vanilla for them I was gonna to say it's the wrong group of people to be thinking they're going to be put off by a bit of anal. And then there was the other constant threat of tension beneath everything Jane's desperation for a ring. And Tommy's reluctance to give up his bachelor lifestyle Jane described herself as Ultimate insecurity And Tommy as the ultimate in commitment phobia A volatile mix that was a sure fire recipe The disaster Also things that come into play quite early on, I would argue is I don't think those are partarticularly hidden secrets by either of them No. And I guess like there is ego at play here for Jane as well as just like, cold hard pragatism of wanting a rich man because I If you just want a ring on your finger and a man who is like wealthy and going to take care of you and you do like you know engage in those circles that you're able to come across a man like that Why going after the one man that everybody notoriously says? No one has ever been able to get him to commit to anybody? Well that's my man. Just pick the fucking guy that's like, I don't know, twice divorced and like needs basically hasn't got a subscription to the Lady magazine but essentially just needs like a nurse and a maid and a You know, someone who do a bit of anal with him Like why have you said are the hardest person that's in this circle? Maybe the lady does have a section for Ainal these days. Maybe, maybe. But yeah, I think it's obviously a bit of ego there for Jane, like getting the getting the man that nobody else could tame nobody else could get Pama, you've made it very difficult for yourself, lady. But anyway, in march two thousand, the first rogue spark started to ignite When Jane went through Tommy's inbox and found racy emails to a woman in Las Vegas In these X rated messages where he and this mystery woman discuss potentially meeting up in the future Tommy referred to Jane as quote Being like a pair of old slippers I can't get rid of That's a weird mixture of analogies of a pair of old slipper I don' get on. You can very easily get rid of an old pair of slippers. What do you want about that It's like an old pair of ippers, like comfortable, worn in. like yet, no woman wants to be described like that by her husband Oh her partner But I feel like he means like a rash I can't get rid of. But sure to me, whatever But yeah, I mean, I definitely have held onto shoes. I've never been a slipper person I think it's weird I've definitely hun onto shoes for way longer than I should have because I don't want to have to break new ones in Oh okay, so are we saying it's actually not a rash? Yeah actually's just like, she's very comfortable, but I don't. But she's not. she's fucking argu with you and say she's going to throw herself out the building all the time. Yeah, well, the devil you know I am a slipperers person and that's horrific After the inevitable breakdown that followed After Jane discovered these racey emails, Tommy managed to calm Jane down by taking her on a romantic break to the Cotswlds to look at houses together. Also like, Tommy, this was your perfect opportunity to fucking chuckolate slippers in the bin. Why are you taking her on a romantic mini break to the Cotswolds? This is not how you break up with somebody Anyway, they go there They even go and speak to estate agent. and allow these estate agents to call them Mr. and Mrs. Cressman, even though they are not yet married. because of course, that is a big point of contention for J Now for Jane, the fact that Tommy allows this mistake to be made and doesn't correct the estate agents It was a signed to her that Tommy was finally willing to give up, you know All his sewing of his wild oats down roots with her and that she was one step closer to getting that fairy tale endings she had been longing for I know people who've read into a lot less than that. Yeah, for sure. I think, you know, that's like, yeah, all right, he's letting people think you're married. That's a pretty good that's a pretty good indicator. You know I, H guys But I also can see from what is he going to say? Oh my Godd, no. else is he just looking at houses together at the Cotswalls. We're not married God Heaven foren In september two thousand, it looked like Jane's prayers may have at last been answered after a swanky boating holiday to Italy's Lake Isio Tommy took Jane to visit his family at their sprawling villa in the south of France So I can I can why she's picking up what he's putting down, you know? Yeah. Why are you doing this? What what are you trying to achieve here? Stop it. Enchanted by the romantic views of the French Riviera, Jane confided in friends that she was hoping but actually expecting. Tomm me to finally pop the question on this trip didnt The story goes that under pressure from Jane Tommy actually ended up blurting out that he had no intention of ever putting a ring on her freshly manicured finger As you might expect, Jane lost her shit In one of her by now familiar tantrums, Tommy's family claimed she stole his brother's car and threatened to drive it off a cliff into the Mediterranean I mean, look, I think maybe Maybe this explains a lot about why their relationship sort of drags on and then he is like, no, no, no, because he knows deep down, I can't marry this woman. She's absolutely fucking nuts But at the same time, it's that like thing that some people are addicted to, right? That drama of like the arguments and the volatility and the passion and the like screaming at each other and like She is not fully A oK. like all these threats of like, I'm going to kill myself, I'm going to hurt myself, like this intense fear of abandonment that she had. kind of screams towards some sort of like personersality disorder, a category B personality disorder, like something histonic borderline, something like that. But that can also be very alluring because those people can also be very, very fun and enchanting and engaging when you're on the right side of them So Tommy, maybe his analogy of a slipper does make sense, but it's a slipper that also kind of bites you every now and then But I don'n know what do you do with this person? Like what do you do? She' like stolen in the car and threatening to drive herself off a fucking cliff. I mean I mean, I think you don't take her to meet your family in France in the fucking first place is what I think Don't do it, don't do it. Just run away. Just don't don't do this. donon't do it. But I also appreciate that If you are in a relationship with somebody who is like that, it's also very hard to get out of that situation. Like they can be very dangerous and there's no point denying it. Of course there is. like they're either going to hurt themselves or they're going to hurt you which spoiless is what happens. After calming Jane down, Tommy drove her to the airport with his mum and his nephew in what must have been the most awkward car journey known to man Jane reportedly screeched down the phone to her friends back home that it was over and that Tommy had said he would never propose and he had wasted two years of her life According to Tommy's family, Jane didn't seem to care that they were in the car too In fact, she wanted to make the biggest scene possible and humiliate him in front of all of them Jane would later deny that Tommy told her he didn't want to marry her, claiming this was J just her go to line when she was trying to goad him. But no matter what actually went down in France The one thing clear to absolutely everybody who knew them or even had been in the same room as them The relationship had grown seriously toxic, probablyably always had been, but these things only tend to get worse Back in London after their holiday, Tommy and Jane had a series of absolutely blazing rows On the morning of the Saturday, sixteenth of September Tommy even made a nine hundred ninety nine call the police asking for help. I'll play it for you now. Not yet. right here I want they doing Staring at me. Right, so may be a short day when stuffockqu. R What is say away and what do you want the me to do I would like the please to come and split us up I would like somebody to Bacing each other C dynam company a company So in the cool. You can hear the dispatcher quite dismissive tone as they asked Tommy What is it he wants the police to do And Tommy says he wants someone to, quote, come and split us up before we end up hurting each other But the dispatcher basically shrugs that if nobody's actually been injured already There's no way the police can intervene. And again, we've seen this before time and time again until someone's actually been hurt until someone's actually been injured, there has been H historical presidents of the police saying, Well, we can't actually do anything. What do you want us to do Okay, is that the best policy I guess it technically makes sense as no crime has been committed But when we look at this call in context with everything that we know and with hindsight, obviously of what happens next It actually does ring a whole lot of alarm bells Back in two thousand, of course, we didn't have the same understanding of domestic abuse as we have today People basically thought that male victims didn't exist. so for Tommy to even make this call to the police at all Even if he was framing it as a mutual fight tells us a lot He might not have had the language to call himself a victim but he was clearly afraid for his life to the point where he was asking someone to come and help and physically de escalate the situation Nobody came If Jane had been the one making the call, probably willing to bet that the emergency services would have been more likely to send an officer to at least do a welfare check But after this call, zero action was taken Tommy's friend Richard Gore distinctively remembers him saying that the police are only interested if there's a body bag. And tragically, he was right. withithin forty eight hours of making that call. Tommy Creresman would be dead The details of what exactly happened next are slightly sketchy, but here's what we do know In the hours after Tommy called the police, there was a lull in the argument where Jane left the house for a while She was on a one woman mission to destroy his life Remember those naught emails Tommy sent to a woman in Las Vegas? Well, Jane printed those off and delivered them by hand to Tommy's mum and business partner, the famous racing driver Sterling Moss with a psaky note saying, A little of what I have to contend with. She also fed copies of the emails to the woman's boss for good measure. Two days later, on the morning of Monday, the eighteenth of Seppttember, one of Tommy's colleagues went to his flat after he didn't show up for work. The scene they found waiting for them was nightmarish Thomas Gresman's pajama clad body was found wedged between his bed and the wall bllood soaking through the carpet He had a nineteen centimeter kitchen knife ched in his cut covered hands with his final act clearly having been trying to pull it out of the gaping wound in his chest There was a bruised dent in his forehead and a cricket bat lying nearby The floody dressing gown cord was tied loosely between the doorknob and the banister outside the room And there was no sign of Tommy's live in girlfriend, Jane Andrews So There were clues as to what had gone on here Plice found a torn up letter in the bin from Tommy to Jane that addressed her mood swings, her jealousy and her possessiveness insisting that he did care about her and hated seeing her upset that she needed to make him part of her life. all of her life He was clearly desperately trying to get through to Jane to appease her anger. There was also a post it note written in Jane's handwriting that had been left out for investigators to find. And this is what it read. My dearest parents, I'm so sorry No more hurt inside me anymore Jane kiss S add it almost as an afterthought, the following sentence Tom hurt me so much, he was so cruel to me. to investigators it sounded like a confession and a suicide note, all in one. So the hunt was on to track down Jane Andrews before she could take a second life All right Jane was on the run for four days. During this time, police did their best to track her movements by car across the south coast of England using license plate recognition though she never stayed put for long Meanwhile, Jane was in contact with several friends and her ex husband via calls and texts where she played dumb about what happened She asked where Tommy was and then acted surprised to learn that he died claiming he was fine when she saw him on the Saturday which police knew was total bullshit She even tried to muddy the waters by suggesting that Tommy had been blackmailed by dododgy business associates a year earlier, which turned out to be false as well all the while protesting her ignorance and innocence Jane send increasingly cryptic texts, including Please look after mum and dad. I love you all I'm innocent and I'm upset I must die and be at peace Blass. On day three, Jane walked into a shop in Pen's Ats in Cornwall and bought two bottles of painkillers So she did try to get more And also a pack of lacy thong underwear H fears were growing that she would commit suicide before the police could find her. So investigators turned to Jane's loved ones to smoke her out of hiding including a certain Red headed ex rooyal Butt the urging of police Sarah Ferguson left two voicemail messages urging Jane that she must come forward and help the police But once again, Jane pleaded innocence and said that she didn't know why they wanted to speak to her Eventually, Jane's friend Lucinda Ellery heard her slurring over the phone and knew instinctively that something wasn't right And Lucinda herself said it a bit less tactfully by saying I was totally sure she was going to top herself Lucinda managed to guide police to Jane's whereabouts and they found Jane curled up under a blanket in the back of her Volkswagen polo in a cornwall layby She had taken an overdose but was responsive After being taken for medical treatment, Chane was arrested and questioned by senior investigating officer Jim Dickkey and his team That's when Jane told her version of events and it was quite the story According to Jane, she did stab Tommy It was in self defense. She claimed that Tommy attacked her that night. accidentally falling onto a knife that she'd grabbed to simply protect herself Jane's rambling story didn't quite add up for multiple reasons Firstly, the kitchen knife didn't belong in the bedroom So rather than defending herself in the heat of the moment, police felt that Jane must have specifically gone downstairs to the kitchen with the express purpose of using the weapon on her boyfriend During that time, she had every opportunity to flee rather than stabbing him What's more, Tom was in his pajamas. didn't even have his glasses or contact lenses on when he was stabbed It looked like he was either getting ready for bed or was already asleep bat shaped wound to his forehead. suggested that Jane hit him first to incapacitate him before plunging the knife into his chest whichich is absolutely horrific. But yeah, if you are going to go after a target that is probably that much bigger than you, that much stronger than you try tocapacitate them before you stab them and make them very angry seems like a smart thing to do and seems a lot less I self defense again because for you to get a Bow squarely on the forehead. It Kind of seems like he was probably asleep finally, Jane's claims that Tommy wasn't in danger when she left also didn't quite pass Muster The man literally had a huge kitchen knife sticking out of his chest So how could she claim that she didn't realize that she was leaving him there to die Jane had also taken a shower and left a note for her parents whilst Tommy was bleeding out suuggesting more rational thought than she was letting on She also leaves and then lies about it repeatedly and so she has no idea what's going on and pretend she doesn't know even know that Tommy's dead Police also reckoned that her tying the dressing gown cord to the door was a calculated attempt to stay to the scene to look like she had been afraid of Tommy. and trying to trap him inside But the cord was tied so loosely that anyone could have yanked it free. For the police, Jane Andrew's sob storyies simply didn't ring true and they believed that they had a cold blooded killer on their hands Whether they did or not was up to a jury to decide On the twenty third of april two thousand one, Jane's trial began at the Old Bailey in London. With Jane's past association with Fergie now splashed across the headlines, it became a massive case for the tabloid hacks who sniffed out any hint of a royal scandal This was more than just a domestic homicide It was yet another embarrassing stain on the royal family who still quite restored their reputation after the death of Princess Diana in nineteen ninety seven when the quQueen knocked her off Jane was represented by prestigious defeense Barrister, John Kelsey Frery while the equally respected Bruce Holder Casey led the prosecution While it's not necessary for a British court to prove motive It always helps And in this case, the prosecution weaved a compelling narrative to convince jurors what had happened between Jane Andrews and Thomas Pressman on that fateful night This just wasn't a heat of the moment crime of passion that Jane might get off with a lighter manslaughter sentence for, although that is so much harder than you think and almost It's like it's so rare. It's so, so rare Instead, this was a case of premeditated murder Whilst the jury weren't allowed to hear about Jane's history of obsessive behavior with her ex boyfriends Several of the couple's friends and Tommy's relatives testified for the prosecution to paint a picture of Jane as a possessive Vindictive woman desperate to secure her future with a rich man Brit Holder urged jurors that after years of instability, the holiday in France It was a crisis point that had finally caused Jane to snap realizing that she couldn't have Tommy She instead resorted to killing him Jane's actions before and after Tommy's death showed what Holder called a capacity for thought, cunning action, deliberation and revenge The fact that she'd armed herself with a cricket bat and a kitchen knife when Tommy was at his most vulnerable indicated that she planned to kill him. and her movements after his death playing dumb about what had happened, staging the scene, and going on the run proof of her ability to lie through her teeth None of this suggested a woman in fear for her life or acting in self defense The prosecution had cold, hard evidence on their side as well Their chief forensic witness, pathologist, Dr. Nathaniel Carey Testify that Tommy was likely incapacitated by a severe skull fracture from being hit with the cricket bat The fatal wound itself came from the stabbing The nineteen centimeter knife skewered that's a quote, his right lung and went into the sac surrounding his heart, which damaged the structures coming in and out of the organ death would have occurred within three minutes with the cuts on Tommy's hand indicating he'd spent his last desperate moments pulling the knife from his own chest said The fatal wound came from the knife, no argument there, but could doctor Carey prove how the knife got there Jane admitted on the stand to whacking Tommy with the bat, but stuck her story that he fell ono the knife whilst attacking her According to Dr. Carey and, anyone with a brain That was implausible Carery felt that the wound was instead consistent with a third party plunging a knife into the body and pointed to signs that it had been partially withdrawn and pushed in again Jane's defense tried to argue that this could be explained by Tommy trying to remove the weapon, but Not really. Dr. Carey's testimony came as a crushing blow for the defense The show had to go on and Jane had a massive plot twist for the jury insisting that Tommy wasn't the affable bachelor that he appeared to be in public. Jane claimed that behind closed doors, he was abusive She told the court about his alleged kinks, including aggressive anal sex and forcing her into rolepl situations that made her feel uncomfortable. Jane testified that Tommy had been physically violent with her on previous occasions to the point that she had armed herself with the knife to defend herself that night The allegations came as a shock to friends and family in the gallery who had never heard anything like this about Tommy before While several acquaintances agreed that Tommy could trigger Jane's insecurities and even hurt her feelings, Nobody had ever seen any indication of physical violence impressed about why she had remained silent about the alleged abuse Jane claimed that she had been afraid that she wouldn't be believed She felt ashamed about the sex acts that she hadd been subjected to and also that she was in love with Tommy and so I was desperate to make the relationship work So despite allegedly living in fear of his temper and sexual appetites, she didn't dare tell the truth about his darker side Until that is she was facing life in prison for his mder And this was very shocking for the jury to listen to, but Jane had more up her sleeve. she didn't stop On the witness stand, she dropped a bombshell that even her own defense lawyer wasn't prepared for.ose are the best, thoseose are the best bombshells. When the defense lawyer charged. Ke you've got to keep your defense on their toes, if anything The allegation Tommy had Anally raped her the very morning of his death Jane described a terrifying scene where Tommy jumped on top of her, put a pillow on her head to shut her up, tied her up with a dressing gown cord and then violated her Jane claimed to have been so shaken up by that assault that she armed herself with the knife and bat at bedtime since she was afraid that it might happen again. Yet another revelation came as Jane claimed she'd been sexually abused by a relative as a child Soough not by her parents. Tommy's abuse triggered flashbacks When Tommy advced angrily on her in another rail that Saturday evening Claiming that he was going to fucking kill her, Jane panicked and lashed out Jane said that she'd swung the bat blindly and didn't even realize that she'd hit him at which point Tommy grabbed her by the hair and that's when she reached for the knife that was in the bedroom, apparently According to Jane, the next thing she knew he was slumped on top of her and the knife must have gone into him. Then she crawled out from under him and fled from the house in a state of shock. focused purely on escaping with her life. And there's no doubt that Jane's account is harrowing Prom was It was completely and utterly inconsistent. Jane repeatedly contradicted herself, came out with new details that she'd never mentioned before and you turned on details that made absolutely no sense As senior investigating offfficer Jim Dickkey put it, every time she opened her mouth, a different story came out Even the account we just told you is a mishmash of all of the different versions that Jane Andrews told during police questioning on the witness stand and then in later interviews Under cross examination, you'll be unsurprised to hear Jane fell absolutely to pieces She admitted that she'd left the house after the alleged rape that morning Remember those vindictive emails that she'd sent out She had to go out to do them But then she said she returned of her own volition and got into bed with Tommy despite supposedly being scared for her life She also confessed to lying about thinking Tommy was okay when she left the house, and couldn't give a straight answer about her evasive texts while she was on the run. evenven trivial details like the thong underwear that she bought Penzs came under fire. If she had been assaulted like she claimed. Why would you choose that style of knickers was asked? And also, if you just bought two bottles of painkillers to kill yourself, why are you buying Lacy Thongs? I don't understand the connection there I totally understand that. It's she wants to be found looking fit. That's what that is. That's very open and shut for me. I also, you know loveve there. If you've been assaulted, why are you wearing a thong argument? Like that's like some people only have thongs. So like sh that I don't like I don't I don't that. I don't get that question. L if you've been assaulted while you're buying a thong, I don't get that ' there been like where you're asking for it, surely, like, you know,' I get your point of She wants to be found looking for it. I can put I can that with her personality for sure. It might sound brutal to interrogate a woman's claims of sexual assault This was a woman who had a proven record of lies of manipulation. And the man she was blaming it all on can't really argue back, cany Bruce Holder argued, Jane played a strong victim card throughout the trial and relied upon smearing a dead man's name as a core part of her defense. Jim Dicky said it was as though Jane had murdered him in life and murdered him again in death by trying to ruin his reputation. Tommy's family were horrified by what they saw as Jane's stage managed attempt to drag their son's name through the mud to escape the consequences of her violent actions His grieving Mum Barbara insisted Tommy was a gentleman. And several of his former girlfriends testified that they had never suffered physical violence from him With no concrete evidence for Jane's claims, it became a delicate he said she said situation where the jury had to follow their instincts whether Jane was telling the truth and For reasons I think we all are aware of Jane's credibility was not looking good Jane's bombshell revelations on the stand inspired her defense counsel to change tack Rather than self defense, they were now gunning for diminished responsibility They argued that since Jane's memories of childhood abuse were triggered by Tommy's alleged assaults, She wasn't in her right mind when she killed him Psychiatrist, Dr. Trevor Turner testified that Jane's judgment was significantly impaired and that she was in a fugue state detach from reality at the time of his death Turner insisted Jane's complex depression and trauma gave her a flight fight response perceiviveed threats that would be irrational for an average person and also claimed that her hormonal problems linked to PCOS affected her behaviour And while this might sound laughable In court, it was huge According to Dr. William Clig Casey Turner's evidence provided a route to manslaughter that was open even if the jury rejected her account of what had happened in the bedroom Naturally, the prosecution pushed back Their own expert witness, Dr. Damian Gambeble, argued that while Jane was suffering from depression, There was no abnormality of mind that could sufficiently prove a lack of criminal responsibility There is absolutely no question that Jane Andrews was a deeply troubled woman. She's obviously really, really unwell There's just no way, certainly not in my book that her mental illness legally accounts for what she did to Thomas Cresman And it turns out, I'm correct. No, fucking good. like it's ridiculous. Obviously they're gonna to try do this. They're the defense like that makes sense There'll always be this argument of like, oh, a mental illness and like when it's When it's somebody like Jane Andrews, But if it had been the other way around and Thomas Creressman had stabbed to death, no one would be like, Ohh, Tommy just really unwell. They'd be like, Ohh he's a piece ofit abuser and that's why he killed. And I'm like, Yeahah, good. I'm glad that that didn't work. Her ploy didn't work in court. Even doctor Turner had to admit on the stand that he could not identify a mental health condition considered serious enough to class Jane's judgment as sububstantially impaired under the law And that was a watershed moment for the case Because if Dr. Carey had dug a hole for Jane's defense strategy Ironically, their own witness testimony might just have driven the final nail into Jane's coffin. after a thirteen day trial. Judge Michael Hyam directed the jury to consider three options If they believe Jane intended to kill or seriously injure Thomas Crresman They must find her guilty of murder If they believe she was acting in self defense, they must acquit her And if they believe she had diminished responsibility, they may consider a verdict of manslaughter The jury deliberated for over thirteen hours across three days before returning a verdict With a majority of eleven to one, they found Jane Andrews guilty of the murder of Thomas Cressman Bruce Holder called it an inevitable verdict in hindsight In a statement, the Crestman family said that while nothing could bring Tommy back, Their faith in British justice had been rewarded with the verdict During sentencing, the judge told Jane, quote Nothing could justify what you did. You were consumed with anger and bitterness and left him to die without remorse In killing the man you loved, you ended his life and ruined your own Jane was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of fifteen years behind bars. While three judges threw out an appeal on the basis of fresh psychiatric evidence apppparently supporting her allegations of childhood sexual abuse, Jane did successfully get her minimum tariff reduced to twelve years. But this wasn't the end of the story for Jade Andrews In two thousand one, psychiatrist Trevor Turner, yeep, the same guy who went to bat for Jane during her trial, diagnosed her in prison with borderline personality disorder which isn't the most surprising development we've ever seen on this show. We've done it before, but let's do it again We're going to run through the core symptoms of BPD and see how Jane measures up You have to meet at least five of these clinical criteria to get a diagnosis An intense fear of abandonment that often manifests through extreme over the top reactions to perceived rejection intense and unstable personal relationships, rapidly swinging between idealization and devaluation of people you love A distorted sense of self image, self esteem and identity Iulsive and risky behavior, such as reckless driving, substance abuse or overspending Self harm and suicidal ideation and behavior often triggered by moments of perceived rejection or abandonment. Extreme emotional instability with intense mood swinks And lastly, stress related disassociation or paranoia where you lose contact with reality. or feel paranoid that people are after you. And I think we can say that Jane Has a full house And while this does shed light on her behavior It doesn't excuse it in a legal sense or otherwise I think about this a lot Nobody who does something like that is well. But that doesn't Matter You're still responsible for your actions. in the sense of I'm not talking about responsibility versus diminished responsibility. I'm talking about The way you move through the world has impact and that impact needs to be dealt with. Like there needs to be weights and measures. You can't just be like, o, well, she's bonkers, so never mind. obviously this is so dumbed down and so blanket, but the only instance in which mental illness equals diminished responsibility is if your relationship to reality is so distorted, your right and wrong is upside down I know we talk about it all the time, but Andrea Yates, I think is the case that I find the most useful in explaining. what I mean by that I mean I think it's breaking down into two different R right. So When people talk about mental illness, like yees, you can talk about personality disorders because they absolutely affect a person negatively or can affect a person negatively or even different types of you know, cluster A, cluster B, cluster C But then you're talking about psychosis and that psychosis would be the only thing that for me would be like, okay, that is. and not just for me, like it matters. in the law, it makes sense and that is the only thing that can be deemed to affect your culpability criminally speaking I was listening to a forensic psychologist talk about the personality disorders and why they rightly are not included when it comes to diminished responsibility Typically they say it's not really even worth diagnosing somebody specifically with like, oh, it's borderline personality. Of course for some people that can be helpful, but it's more like clust to B because there's so much overlap between the different personality Dorders that exist within that. And it can also change So what she was saying was that cluster A personality types can be just quite odd, just quite odd. So you're looking at things like schizotypical thingsings like, you know, Brian Koberger, he was a great example for somebody who would fit into that sort of cluster A Again, his disconnection from reality and his like inability to connect with people probably did lead to him committing those crimes But just because it is an influencing factor, it doesn't make it a diminishing factor for his culpability It can be explanatory, but it does not make it exculpatory for his responsibility Then you have cluster B personality types, which are things like histronic Narcissistic, borderline personality disorder And these are ones in which people can be a danger to themselves or a danger to other people And then you've got plus to see personality disorders in which people are just more like you know, depressive and just more insular, more unlikely to go outside, unlikely to cause any sort of difficulties in the relationships where they're in or in society because they're probably not even going to engage in those sort of relationships or going outside or engaging with the wider world. So I think while you can absolutely say that it is worth understanding what led to a person doing what, and I'm sure that she did have some sort of clust to B situation It absolutely does not interfere with her culpability or interfere with her ability to have done it. So yeah, the law is correct in the way that it handles these things for sure Yeah, youve that's much more succinct than I could have managed that explanatory and exculbatory are not the same thing and I do think that does get confused. because A diagnosis of BPD does shed light on Jane's behavior. It does not excuse it In British law, personality disorders rarely qualify for criminal defenses because a person still understands, right from wrong It's a pretty murky area in terms of the intersection between psychology and the law, while around four point four percent of the British public are thought to have a diagnosable personality disorder This rocket's up to sixty to seventy percent amongst the prison population. While Ma Jane may have benefited from this insight into her psyche, it didn't stop her getting back on her bullshit behind bars. In two thousand six, Jane struck up a friendship slash romance with a male inmate from another prison cononvicted fraudster, Mark Elson Jane sent countless lovely dovey cards addressed to, My husband and seemed to think that she'd backed herself a new man Mark, however, didn't quite seem to share Jane's devotion He visited her a few times after finishing his sentence but failed to mention that he already had a girlfriend. and a child. When Mark tried to call things off and missed a planned visit at East Sutton Park, the open prison in Kent, where Jane was living as of november two thousand nine Needless to say, she did not take it well In fact, she jumped a fence and escaped after a group therapy session Mark was understandably shitting himself. with the police even providing him with a panic alarm and guarded his family for twenty four hours whilst Jane was at large As it turned out, the whole thing ended up a bit of an anticlimax To be fair, thankfully because Jane was found in a hotel room a few miles from the prison with her parents and her older brother three days later and probably shipped back behind bars Despite all this, Marark Elson bizarrely kept up communication with Jane through phone calls before he finally cut off contacted early twenty eleven With her trademark refusal to accept it, Jane bombarded him with angry answer phone messages accusing him of fucking up her life But in twenty twelve, with her releasase date looming, Jane started sending loved up cards again as if nothing had happened. Mark went to the tabloids with his story insisting that he wanted people to quote get to know the real Jane before her release and warn them about her obsessive nature there is a pretty large elephant in the room here Mark Elson is also a convicted murderer A year after selling his laorriid stories about Jane, he was jailed for bludgeoning an elderly coin dealer Zeppie Joe Miselli to death in a botched burglary As Giuseppi's brother put it Mark and Jane deserve each other So I think Just take the cap off the salt shaker and just throw it around And then over your left shoulder into the eyes of the devil, spit three times you' fine. Got it Still all this goes to show that Jane didn't seem to turn over a new leaf while she was in prison. Does doesnn't look like there was much rehabilitation going on here. That's what personality disorders mean. Like you cannot ure them, you can't even really treat them. You have to manage them And if you don't want to, No one can help you say how while she was considered for early release several times during her sentence, the probation board repeatedly charudged Jane to be a danger to the public and denied it. In june twenty fifteen, after having served two years longer than her minimum tariff, Jane Andrews was finally released on license Tommy's family was absolutely furious brother, Rick, arguing, I'm afraid our justice system seems pretty soft when you can commit the most heinous crime and walk away after just fourteen years. Like Mark Elson before him, Rick urged the public to watch out for Jane Warning that any men out there in the wider world should give her a wide birth And as it turned out, Rick's prophecy did sort of come true. Becauseuse in twenty eighteen, Jane's license was revoked and she was once again called back to prison after she was accused of harassing a married man. The subsequent police investigation ultimately found no evidence for harassment But we think it's fair to say that with Jane Andrews, there's probably no smoke without fire Once the investigation concluded, Jane was finally released for good in august twenty nineteen She found work stacking shelves at two supermarkets just in time for the COVID pandemic when evidently their HR teams had got a bit slack with their veting procedures In twenty twenty, she was outed by journalists and got sacked from both of her jobs as a result Jane moaned in an interview Is that what people want me to not even be allowed to earn my own money and pay tax? which I I don't know. Does she have a point? I guess I'd rather her work and do whatever then sit around and claim benefits. Yes, and keep her busy stack in sh. I I think so and also it was the fucking pandemic. It's not like there was loads to report. like, oh, oh yeah, oh no, we are all still inside and everyone's depressed. Yep still the same. Oh, but Jane Andrews th there, you know, I understand. We'll all go inside and we'll let the criminals outside to live their lives. How's that Anyway after this, Jane slithered back under the radar Now in her late fifties as we've heard She lives a pretty reclusive life and works at an animal hospital charity And while Jane might shun the spotlight, public interest in her story has never quite Totally died out. hereere we all are, after all Just this year, ITV released a drama adaptation titled The Lady basased on the case starring Mia McKenney Bruce as Jane and Natalie Dormer as Fergie The timing literally could not have been more fitting since the show's release coincided with the latest revelations linking Fergie to the Epstein files And I'm sure that was a lovely day in the ITV press office Amid all the hooha, actress Natalie Dormer controversially announced that she would be donating her fee for the show to a sexual abuse charity after condemning Fergie's sympathetic post arrest emails to Jeffrey Epstein as inexcusable The ITV show also drew criticism from those who still support Jane Andrews, because yes, those people do exist Solicitor Harriet Wistrich, CEO of the Feminist Legal Charity Center for Wom's Justice, Slam the show for failing to consult Jane despite it being about her Instead, presenting the public with a one sided and sensational view that fails to explore why a vulnerable woman in her circumstances may have been driven to kill Yeah Harriet, I reckon there's women out there who need your help more than fucking Jane Irees do. Yes, I think I agree Because even twenty six years later, Jane Andrew's case is still provoking debate about how the laws treat female offenders who kill They're allegedly abusive partners The overturning of Sally Challen's convictions in twenty nineteen was a landmark moment in the UK And if you don't know the case, we did cover it a long time ago when it happened Sally Challen was originally found guilty of murdering her husband by batterting him with a hammer in august twenty ten But after multiple appeals, that conviction was quashed after a judge agreed that Sally's husband, Richard, had subjected her to years of coercive control that justified a plea of manslaughter with diminished responsibility Those who support Jane Andrews argue that if her case had been tried today, with our modern understanding of domestic violence, come. may have been similar. but I think we also have to be no Wooden Like I really take issue with peopleeople using Sally Challen. to defend people like Jane Andrews I actually find it like thoroughly distasteful to the point of disgust. like It's not the same thing. What happened to Sally Challen and what happened to Jane Andrews are worlds apart It's you cannot compare them and by doing that it just cheapens everything and you like You're disgracing Sally Challen is what you're doing. Yeah. And infantilizing women all over the fucking world Like this idea that Jane Andrews is a victim purely because of her sex because she's a woman because there could be no other world in which she was the abuser in that relationship It just makes everything so hollow and it makes women's It robs women of their agency. Like she can be just a killer. She can be someone who was just fucking bats shit crazy and wanted a rich husband and was like, well, if I'm not going to have you, no one's gonna to fucking have you. Have that. Like, yeah, it's all just so embarrassing And yeah, distasteful So we do not buy Jane's story that this was a straightforward case of battered woman killing her abuser in self defense, but like those are never straightforward. trrust me We're not saying that Tommyreresman was a perfect person either because they literally don't exist. Nobody is a perfect person. Anybody could see that their relationship was deeply unhealthy, emotionally volatile, and toxic for both of them Jane was psychologically vulnerable. That's true, with large abandonment issues and Tommy's lack of commitment and infidelity. pushed a lot of buttons But even taking all of that into account, the circumstances of Tommy's death A really difficult to square with a genuine act of self defense Jane was proven to have lied repeatedly in an attempt to cover her tracks and later deliberately reshape the narrative to cast herself as the victim. Whether or not elements of abuse truly existed in her relationship with Tommy, Jane absolutely knew exactly how powerful the narrative be and She tried to use it to dodge the consequences of her own actions. and at the end of the day Whatever turmoil Jane Andrews was in However much he cheated or strung her along, Tommy Cresman did not have to die Those two things don't even exist in the same fucking universe Now we're going to leave you with a more recent fergy footnote in the sweaty Nonce Legacy Fergie is all over the Epstein files. That's old news. we all know that. We read out her emails to Jeff discussing her daughters over and under the Duvet when they first came out She claimed that she had cut off contact with Jeffrey Epstein in twenty eleven after his conviction That is resoundingly tree even going as far as to call him, quote, a steadfast generous and supreme friend to me and my family But now There is new information Connecting the former Duchess of York to none other. than Sean PDD Combs. courtesy of author, historian, and monarch enthusiast Andrew Lowey. In december twenty twenty five, Fergie was kicked out of Royal Lodge along with his sweaty nonseness. Andrew Mountbatten and Windsor Apparently, it was well known that the Fergie was keen to marry a rich American If Epstein had proposed, she would have snapped up that offer with glee despite him being a convicted sex offender. If we believe Andrew Laowey, Diddy was another one. of her romantic targets Which When I first saw that, I was like, C man. But then I sat down and thought about it. Stay Sean Colmes calls his eldest son King. He is obsessed with royalty. He is obsessed with monarchy. So when I was like That makes so much sense when you actually think about it becausecause Sarah Ferguson rooyal. And she would go to the opening of an envelope. It wouldn't have been difficult Diddy to get close to Sarah Ferguson M. and He would often, apparently Brag about slamming Fergie And he was eagerly anticipating Beatrice and Eugenie reaching the age of consent. Those are things he apparently discussed ly and we know for a fact that Fergie and Diddy absolutely knew each other, there are multiple pictures of them together after they were introduced in two thousand two by Gelaine Maxwell. course that makes so much sense Apparently, if we believe Andrew Laouey, they began a friends with benefits situation two years after they met. And in two thousand six, Diddy launched a perfume called Unforgivable which he openly stated was inspired by Fergie and how she liked men to smell. You can find those articles. He said that And Fergie had no problems with her daughters being around Diddy either She took Eugenie with her to one of Sean Combes's yacht parties And you don't have to believe me You can read those things. they're all out there Buy it, man. that would have been such an easy win for P Ddy to shag Sarah Ferguson straight awayay. Oh, absolutely, I believe it. And look, I've watched the interviews with Andrew Laowney, who's talking about his book And he is like, I haven't read his book But he's like, it's all fact check, it's all in there. I've got the receipts, I've got the sources, Like, do you think we would have been allowed to publish this without the lawyers going back and forth on every claim I made in there Not a fucking chance if I was making allegations against someone like Sarah Ferguson And he's like everything I say in there is true Seawn Diddy Comes and Sarah Ferguson were banging. She wanted to marry him and he wanted to fucking bang the kids as well. And she was like Alright, maybe let's see. gross. They're all so gross. and this again just tells you why Jane Andrews, for all the things she was. Her like very singular focus on anal being something that was gonna turn these people off is the most awful So that's it guys. that's all I've got. There go Jane Andrews Daff Nothing will ever be fur delicious again. thank God for that.