Daily Mail - 27.08.2019

Page 34 Daily Mail, Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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S HER ex-husband

Prince Andrew tries

to downplay his ten-

year association with

the late sex offender

Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah, Duchess

of York is concentrating on a

more wholesome royal drama.

I can disclose that Fergie has set up a

television production company — and

her debut project will be a historical

series about Prince Albert’s Saxe-

Coburg-Gotha dynasty.

‘The first drama will be about the

incredible true story of the most

powerful forgotten family in history,’

one of the Duchess’s friends tells me.

The series will be called The Greater

Good, and will ‘shed light on the impor-

tance of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family

and its impact on uniting Europe over a

100-year time span’.

The show will focus on a

single family, with little but good looks

to its name, that climbed from

nowhere to sit on nearly all the thrones

of Europe.

Sarah has established the

company, Coat Productions,

with a friend from the fashion

world, Cavan Mahony, who was

a guest at Princess Eugenie’s

wedding at St George’s Chapel,

Windsor Castle, last year.

Fergie has some previous,

achieving critical and commer-

cial success with the 2009 film

The Young Victoria, of which

she was a producer. It was

Sarah who conceived the idea

for the film based on the early

years of Queen Victoria. She

had been interested in the

monarch since her marriage to

Andrew, a great-great-great-

grandson of Victoria and Prince

Albert. Legendary director

Martin Scorsese was brought

in as a fellow producer.

The German name Saxe-

Coburg-Gotha came into the

British Royal Family in 1840

when Victoria wed her cousin

Albert, son of Ernst, Duke of

Saxe-Coburg & Gotha.

As a British dynasty, it was

short-lived, surviving the nine-

year reign of Edward VII, and

the first seven years of his son,

George V.

Then, following the outbreak

of World War I, George replaced

the title with the more

English-sounding House of

Windsor in 1917.

A spokesman for the Duchess

declined to comment.

WHOEVER thought that an MP would give Taylor

Swift a run for her money? Pete Wishart, the SNP

politician who played keyboards with Scottish folk rock

band Runrig, boasts that he is a chart topper. ‘Runrig is

No.1 in the German album charts,’ he says of the band’s

final release before their retirement. ‘What a way to end

an incredible musical legacy.’ Which has better odds —

a Runrig reunion or Scotland leaving the UK?

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GAME Of Thrones

star Nathalie

Emmanuel (who

came to a sticky end

as Missandei) cele-

brated her West

Indian roots as she

partied at Notting

Hill Carnival in leg-

gings featuring the

flag of Dominica.

One of the 30-year-

old actress’s grand-

parents came from

the island. Nathalie

danced with her

boyfriend, the

Riviera star Alex

Lanipekun, 38, whom

she has been court-

ing for over a year.

‘It’s tough to find

people who are

super-secure and

encourage you to

fly,’ she said.

Another Royal

Family drama!

Fergie’s turning

TV producer

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