Prince Edward and Sarah Ferguson used to have a close relationship with each other. However, things changed after Ferguson and Prince Andrew divorced.

Prior to this, it was also revealed that Prince Edward unjustly accused the Duchess of York of doing something that she might not have done. In the book “Prince Edward,” royal author Ingrid Seward said that it all started after Prince Edward became convinced that Ferguson made a fool out of Prince Andrew.

“Increasingly suspicious of his sister-in-law, he became convinced that she had leaked the information about Sophie to her press contacts. The source was, in fact, an employee and not a member of the royal family, but the criticism to which the royal family has been subjected in recent years has produced a siege mentality breeding theory of conspiracy and betrayal,” she said.

Seward went on to say that Ferguson has been accused of several other things simply because she wasn’t popular with the senior courtiers and Prince Edward was no exception.

The youngest child of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II became convinced that Ferguson was the one that leaked his relationship with Sophie, Countess of Wessex because it became public after the Duchess met with her.

When Ferguson found out that she has been accused of Prince Edward and the other senior courtiers, she reportedly became incensed.

“It was unjust and untrue, and she took her complaint to the Queen,” Seward said.

Meanwhile, this wasn’t the only time that Ferguson was accused of exposing a royal family secret. According to royal author Tina Brown, the mom of two was also accused of leaking her separation from Prince Andrew in 1992 to the press.

Brown said that the Queen was personally infuriated by the leak. The palace was also convinced that Ferguson handed out the information to the press and even went as far as accusing her of hiring a PR company to hand the news to the media.

Prince Edward, Prince Charles, Sarah Ferguson and Princess Diana
Pictured: Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson, Lord Linley, Prince Edward, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mother outside Clarence House in London on Aug. 4, 1989. Getty Images/Johnny Eggitt