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image captionSarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.
Her Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess s great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.
She has previously written children s books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.
She said: I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world. It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names, she added.