Sarah Ferguson has been described as “full of vigour,” following the news that she will vacate Royal Lodge. The former duchess is understood to be moving ahead with plans to live separately from  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and could even be set to start dating, according to an insider.

One person with knowledge of the situation, told Closer: “It’s like having the golden handcuffs taken off, or at least that’s how she’s trying to spin it. Now that she’s no longer hitching her wagon to Andrew it’s opened up a lot of choices to her, or at least she’s convinced it has. She’s still full of vigour and even after this huge fall from grace she’s got this unshakable will to keep going.”