{"id":94376,"date":"2025-11-02T21:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94376"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:54:28","slug":"andrew-and-fergie-and-koo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/andrew-and-fergie-and-koo\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew and Fergie and Koo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201c<strong>Pete Buttigieg <\/strong>is leading the 2028 race.&nbsp; Tops <strong>Newsom <\/strong>in new poll.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">&nbsp;A recent headline says it all.&nbsp; I bet this is news to the Governor \u2013 to say nothing of <strong>Mayor Pete<\/strong>!<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months, I have really tried to live in gratitude \u2013 to be grateful for everything that comes my way.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure most of my readers feel likewise.&nbsp; After all, there are children in Bangladesh who don\u2019t get to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 even with <em>Google Translate<\/em>!&nbsp; We\u2019re particularly grateful not to be the artist formerly known as <strong>Prince Andrew<\/strong>.&nbsp; I must confess, I came late to the <strong>Andrew Mountbatten Windsor <\/strong>party, but I\u2019m totally caught up now and have eagerly digested every twist and turn of this drama \u2013 even though I don\u2019t really care about him.&nbsp; I was taken aback when I heard numerous journalists blame this entire <em>contretemps <\/em>on&#8230;<strong>Koo Stark<\/strong>!&nbsp; Do you remember Koo?&nbsp; She was an \u201cactress\u201d of dubious distinction, who sued (and won) an apology (and cash) from publications who referred to her as a \u201cporn star\u201d.&nbsp; No such mistake will be made in this column \u2013 my standard for \u201cstar\u201d is quite high.&nbsp; <em>Randy Andy <\/em>(as he was known back in the day) was in love with Koo as much as his brother was in love with <strong>Camilla<\/strong>.&nbsp; Neither son got to marry the love of their life \u2013 and we all know how that turned out!<\/p>\n<p>The other surprising part of this drama is the loads of rubbish being heaped upon poor <strong>Fergie <\/strong>\u2013 who I once partied with in Houston back when she was still a Duchess (but prior to <em>Toe-Gate<\/em>).&nbsp; A biographer seems to believe that the biggest problem is that Fergie always lives beyond her means and hasn\u2019t got a job \u2013 like you\u2019re gonna see Fergie working the <em>Clinique <\/em>counter at <strong><em>Harrods<\/em><\/strong>, or pumping gas at the local <strong><em>Tesco<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; An example of her extravagance is the tale of <strong>Eugenie<\/strong>\u2019s birthday party.&nbsp; Apparently it had a <em>Disney <\/em>theme and Eugenie went as Snow White and actually hired seven actual dwarfs to play&#8230;well, the seven dwarfs.&nbsp; Look, what do you expect her parents to do?&nbsp; Have a bouncy castle delivered to <em>Windsor<\/em> <em>Castle<\/em>??&nbsp; Sure, Eugenie was 25&#8230;but still!&nbsp; As part of the deal Andrew brokered with <strong>King Charles<\/strong>, <strong>Beatrice <\/strong>and Eugenie will remain princesses.&nbsp; And, at least for now, Andrew remains ninth in line to the throne.&nbsp; One bad outbreak of bubonic plague and he could be sitting pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPete Buttigieg is leading the 2028 race.&nbsp; Tops Newsom in new poll.\u201d \u2013 &nbsp;A recent headline says it all.&nbsp; I bet this is news to the Governor \u2013 to say nothing of Mayor Pete! Over the last few months, I have really tried to live in gratitude \u2013 to be grateful for everything that comes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94385,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94376\/revisions\/94385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}