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Sarah Ferguson is set for a big life change over the coming weeks and months as she adjusts to life without a royal title. While she is no longer the Duchess of York, she will also no longer live with her ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten Windsor at Royal Lodge, with the pair having been evicted as a result of Andrew's scandals surrounding his previous association with Jeffrey Epstein.

Buckingham Palace confirmed that Andrew - who has also been formally stripped of his royal titles by the King - will instead move to a property on King Charles' Sandringham Estate, while Sarah will sort her own housing arrangements. This is just the latest blow she has faced, weeks after being entangled in her own scandal surrounding an email she sent to Epstein in 2011.

Although she is currently keeping a low profile, Sarah, 66, is believed to be aware of the mistakes she has made and has just two priorities going forward.

Speaking on Channel 5's Vanessa show, Sarah's friend Lizzie Cundy said: "Her priorities are her children and her grandchildren."

While it is not known what Sarah plans to do next, Lizzie also said that the former duchess should "have her truth".

Lizzie said: "I think she (Sarah) needs time to reflect and then maybe come and do an interview and have her truth, give some clarity."

Although Sarah is believed to be prioritising her family in this saga, it was reported over the weekend that the latest scandal surrounding her apologetic 2011 email to Epstein for criticising him - which reportedly was only sent out of fear he was going to sue her for defamation - has disrupted the relationship she has with her daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.

The Daily Mail's royal editor Rebecca English said that she was told the "tripod" - a nickname once used to describe the princesses close relationship with their mum - had "collapsed".

The friend of the family revealed: "'I would actually go so far as to say that they are even more disappointed in their mother than their father now.

"They also love their mother dearly, of course they do.

"She's a wonderful grandmother, too, and they are deeply concerned about how this is all affecting her mentally as much as their father. But I think it's fair to say the scales have also somewhat fallen from their eyes."