Has Fergie been dropped by another charity? Plaque commemorating Sarah Ferguson's association with Great Ormond Street hospital vanishes

Published: 22:20 BST, 10 October 2026 | Updated: 00:15 BST, 11 October 2026

A plaque commemorating Sarah Ferguson's association with Great Ormond Street Hospital and its young patients has mysteriously vanished, prompting speculation that the disgraced former Duchess has been dropped by yet another charity.

For decades, a grey slate plaque with gold lettering was fixed to the wall of a special hostel for the parents of sick children at Great Ormond Street, marking the fact that Ferguson, as Duchess of York, had opened the 'Home from Home' in 1990.

Yet today there is no sign of the plaque, only a tell-tale outline on the Georgian brickwork and two holes in the wall where, until recently, it was displayed.

Neither the former Duchess nor the charity behind the hostel - which sits near the main hospital entrance - would comment on Saturday.

But the apparent snub will come as a blow to Ferguson, 66, who was once a keen supporter of Great Ormond Street and had been a patron of the Sick Children's Trust, which runs the 'Home from Home'.

Founded in 1982 by doctors at Great Ormond Street and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, the Trust now funds ten hostels in towns and cities around the country, promising to keep families together while their children undergo treatment nearby.

Despite many years of involvement - including visits to young patients, fundraising and opening a number of the 'Homes from Home' - there is no mention of Ferguson on the charity's website.

The former Duchess had a spectacular fall from grace last year when The Mail on Sunday published emails revealing the true depth of her relationship with the late US financier and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

For decades, a grey slate plaque with gold lettering was fixed to the wall of a special hostel for the parents of sick children at Great Ormond Street, marking the fact that Ferguson, as Duchess of York, had opened the 'Home from Home' in 1990

There is now no sign of the plaque, only a tell-tale outline on the Georgian brickwork and two holes in the wall where, until recently, it was displayed

Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor at Ascot in 2019. The former Duke and Duchess of York were stripped of their titles in October last year  

Although Ferguson publicly disowned Mr Epstein when he was jailed for abusing a teenage girl in 2008, in private she had called the financier a 'supreme friend' and made a grovelling apology for criticising him.

In response to this and other shocking emails uncovered by the MoS, the King stripped Ferguson and former husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of their titles and ejected them from Royal Lodge, the grace-and-favour mansion in Windsor Great Park that they shared.

Soon afterwards, Ferguson was dropped as a patron by charities including Julia's House, a children's hospice, The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, The Children's Literacy Charity, Prevent Breast Cancer, The British Heart Foundation, The Teenage Cancer Trust and the National Foundation for Retired Service Animals.

Author and commentator Norman Baker, whose latest book is Royal Mint, National Debt: The shocking truth about the royals' finances, said: 'The former Duchess is now so toxic that it seems no one is willing to work with her.'