The Crown set to return with debauched spin-off including Fergie’s toe-sucking scandal
THE creators of The Crown are planning a sequel featuring raunchy royal stories — including Fergie’s toe-sucking scandal.
Prince Andrew’s romance with US former actress Koo Stark could also be included, executive producer Andy Harries revealed.
He said “many examples” of “fairly tawdry events” had been left out of the Netflix hit’s six series, adding: “We have often taken the high road here.”
It follows last night’s premiere of the final six episodes of The Crown which has long been a thorn in the royals’ side.
Mr Harries said it would be relatively easy to research events from information already available, and would-be contributors.
One would be Fergie’s relationship with John Bryan while she was separated from Prince Andrew but still married to him.
Sarah, Duchess of York was pictured by a pool in St Tropez in 1992 with the Texan tycoon, her financial adviser, sucking her toes.
Mr Harries said: “Fergie doesn’t feature heavily in the series. We didn’t do the toe sucking story. It wasn’t because it wasn’t a good or interesting story, but it was not central to the theme of the show.”
Speaking to the Have You Seen? podcast, he revealed that members of “the circle around the royal family” had been in touch with him.
He said: “Koo Stark rang me up, she got straight through to me and offered her services. She was briefly a girlfriend of Prince Andrew.”
We exclusively revealed in June that any sequel to The Crown could take the form of a film, in the same way Downton Abbey morphed into two movies after its successful run as an ITV series.
Either way, Netflix were keen for another instalment for fans when the current series ends.