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If recent reports are true, Sarah Ferguson has gone too far - again. The former Duchess of York reportedly wanted to "clone" Queen Elizabeth II's beloved corgis all for the sake of a potential reality TV show deal, which would have included a corgi breeding programme and meeting with other rich corgi owners.

Sarah had been taking care of the late Queen's dogs since her death in 2022 alongside her ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, at their former home Royal Lodge. According to sources who spoke to the Daily Mail, the supposed TV show would have seen Sarah selling genetically replicated pooches to dog lovers internationally.

TV insiders claimed: "She came up with the idea of featuring the Queen's corgis in a show. And that included the idea of breeding them. Bizarre as it sounds, the idea of cloning them was discussed."

Animal cloning is illegal in the UK, but it is legal to send skin samples from animals to the US so it could take place abroad.

The source added: "Sarah seemed to be up for anything provided she was paid - and particularly if she could do some travelling in the process and meet rich aristos who might like to own a corgi."

Discussions took place with Halcyon Studios, which was confirmed by Sarah's spokesperson.

It's been clear since her WeightWatch ad campaign that there is little Fergie won't do for some quick cash. The show pitch is clearly another desperate ploy to make a buck on the side, profiting off the very dogs the late Queen loved so much. She's been cut off by her ex-husband and booted out of Royal Lodge - it's hardly surprising that she'd stoop to such depths to fund her extravagant lifestyle.

The potential programme is yet another example, if we needed one, of how out of touch Sarah is. Believing the general British public would watch a show engineered to show off an extravagant lifestyle during a cost of living crisis that has been raging on for years is an insult.

Not only is the concept rather insulting to the late Queen Elizabeth, but it's an insult to the intelligence of taxpayers who help to fund the Royal Family.

Nobody wants to see Fergie swanning around the world on private jets, selling pedigree pooches to millionaires and billionaires, while they're struggling to heat their own homes or put food on the table.

The very concept of the pitch seems to me in some way cruel. The late Queen adored her pups, which included Muick, Sandy and Candy. As anyone knows when they lose a pet, there's no replacing them - even cloning wouldn't replicate their personality quirks.

To reduce what were essentially close family members of the late Queen to yet another consumable - akin to Meghan Markle's expensive jams - shows how much Fergie has lost touch with the institution she was once a part of.

In response to the fury around the show, a spokesperson for Sarah said she "never progressed any discussions with Halcyon Studios, which were engineered by others, and withdrew from them of her own accord".

They added: "She listens to TV proposals all the time but that doesn't mean she is going to go through with them. If she had briefly seemed enthusiastic, that is just who Sarah is. Sarah never had any intention of monetising the corgis.

"She had been looking at doing a TV show about dogs for many years, long before she had the corgis and long before she was introduced to Halcyon Studios. She owns other types of dogs also. Any resulting show would never have been about the corgis alone."