Sarah Ferguson’s childhood school report has been revealed – with the disgraced ex-Duchess described by her teachers as ‘erratic’ at the age of 12.

As a youngster, the former Duchess of York, who was a weekly boarder in the 1970s at the prestigious Hurst Lodge School in Ascot, was said to have developed a reputation as an outgoing child who immersed herself in sport.

However, a rare school report from 1972 has revealed that there were also rather striking aspects to young Fergie’s personality, according to The Times.

‘Although enthusiastic and anxious to please… Sarah has not yet learned to channel her energies in the right direction. Both work and behaviour are erratic and she needs to exercise greater control over both,’ the school report read.

It comes as Fergie is said to have fled the UK as she and her ex-husband, former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, became embroiled in the growing Epstein scandal which culminated in his arrest on February 19.

In 2024, a leaked document revealed that Fergie left the exclusive Hurst Lodge School, where fees were around £3,000 per year, with just two O-Level qualifications, despite previous reports suggesting she had gained six.

While the former Duchess, now 66, obtained an A in spoken English and a C in art, she received Ds in English language, English literature and biology and failed French and geography. 

At the time, a source close to the then-Duchess told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Academic qualifications are not the be-all and end-all and the Duchess is a firm believer in the importance of emotional intelligence and kindness. 

‘The Duchess has always been very open about her lack of a formal education and never made any claims to the contrary. Indeed, she is proud of the fact she started out scrubbing toilets for a living and has ended up as a Sunday Times bestselling author in her 60s.’

Sarah Ferguson (pictured right in 1976) childhood school report has been revealed – with the disgraced ex-Duchess described by her teachers as ‘erratic’ at the age of 12

As a youngster, the former Duchess of York , who was a weekly boarder in the 1970s at the prestigious Hurst Lodge School in Ascot , was said to have developed a reputation as an outgoing child who immersed herself in sport

Likewise, the former Duchess has also spoken candidly about how she experienced profound personal struggles during her school days.

In her 1996 book My Story, Fergie confessed: ‘My mind was anywhere but on studies in the summer of 1974. Mathematics eluded me, and I laboured on my English but couldn’t concentrate.’

Indeed, behind the scenes, then 13-year-old Sarah’s personal life was slowly unravelling. Her late mother Susan had walked out on her husband, Major Ronald Ferguson, in 1972 when she ‘fell in love’ with Argentine polo player Héctor Barrantes.

In his book Entitled, Andrew Lownie revealed that the separation had a ‘profound effect on Sarah, who blamed herself for the divorce, took to comfort eating and put on weight’.

He added: ‘She would later claim, she suffered from insecurity, a feeling of worthlessness, a need to please others, and found it hard to establish stable relationships. 

‘She also had mixed feelings about her mother abandoning the family to move to London and then Argentina ostensibly because she did not want to disrupt the children’s education.’

In September 1998, Susan died in horrific circumstances when she was killed by a truck.

The Daily Mail reported at the time that the tragedy was the ‘Darkest day for Fergie’. 

Meanwhile, in a further insight into Fergie’s school days, the former Duchess has also previously revealed that she suffered from learning difficulties. 

‘I had myself evaluated by experts who confirmed I am ADHD and moderately impaired by dyscalculia [difficulty in understanding numbers],’ she wrote in her book Finding Sarah: A Duchess’s Journey to Find Herself.

Yet despite facing academic obstacles, Fergie has self-confessed to being ‘very successful’ at school, and even served as the school’s head girl in 1976, which she herself equated as synonymous with the role of ‘class president’.

She added: ‘I was winning netball captain. I was our class ringleader too, gregarious and dramatic with a flair for stirring up mischief.’

In 2024, a leaked document revealed that Fergie left the exclusive Hurst Lodge School, where fees were around £3,000 per year, with just two O-Level qualifications, despite previous reports suggesting she had gained six

Despite facing academic obstacles, Fergie has self-confessed to being ‘very successful’ at school, and even served as head girl in 1976, which she equated to being synonymous with the role of ‘class president’

At the age of 16, Fergie left her life at Hurst Lodge behind and began a course in shorthand, typing and bookkeeping at Queen’s Secretarial College in London.

Classmate Charlotte Eden, the daughter of former Conservative MP Lord Eden of Winton, previously recalled: ‘We were both dunces at shorthand and typing. We used to sit at the back of the class and giggle.’

She later went on to gain temp jobs and later a position at a PR firm. 

Meanwhile, her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was sent to Heatherdown Preparatory School in Ascot at the age of eight and gained a reputation as a bit of a bully – or ‘a natural boss’, according to his father, Prince Philip.

It was during this period that the Royal Family’s 1969 documentary aired on British television, showcasing that while Andrew was a ‘lively, cheerful boy’, he possessed a ‘touch of the daredevil’ and was already beginning to ‘display the contrary behaviour that would bedevil his life’, according to Mr Lownie. 

During his time at Heatherdown, one of his contemporaries, Frank Egerton, recalled how fellow pupils were ‘always aware he was a member of the Royal Family’.

He was said to be insistent that his peers call him ‘Prince’, with Mr Jackson, who would frequently play alongside Andrew, then aged six, recalling to Lownie how Andrew ‘once informed me when playing that he was a “Prince”.’

Yet Mr Jackson refused to back down to the young royal, recalling: ‘I immediately informed him that I was actually a “King”, which seemed to shut him up.’

 In her 1996 book My Story, Fergie confessed: ‘My mind was anywhere but on studies in the summer of 1974’.  Indeed, behind the scenes, then 13-year-old Sarah’s mother Susan (pictured right) had walked out on her husband, Major Ronald Ferguson, in 1972 

Aged eight, Andrew was sent to Heatherdown Preparatory School in Ascot, Berkshire, where he gained a reputation as a bit of a bully – or ‘a natural boss’, according to his father, Prince Philip. A fellow pupil remembered him as a ‘cocky’ child who ‘had a high opinion of himself’ 

Meanwhile, another fellow pupil remembered Andrew as being ‘someone who threw his weight around’, describing him as a ‘cocky’ child who ‘had a high opinion of himself’.

It comes as friends of Fergie have revealed the former Duchess is in a bad way’ and feels that ‘everyone is out to get her’, her friends have admitted following ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest at Sandringham.

The former Duchess of York, 66, who has not been seen in public for five months, may now look to the UAE for cash and abandon her dream of a new home in Windsor to be near Beatrice and Eugenie.

But she is said to have told friends that there will be no tell-all book detailing the family’s ties to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, though she ‘might end up having to tell that story to the police’.

The Daily Mail has also revealed that Fergie checked herself into the most expensive wellness clinic in the world as details about her close friendship with the convicted paedophile unravelled. 

Fergie secretly took refuge in the world-renowned £13,000-a-day Paracelsus Recovery Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, over a month ago.

A Swiss source told the Daily Mail: ‘Sarah left for Zurich just after Christmas, and stayed until the end of January.

​‘She always feels at home at Paracelsus, and knows she’ll get love and attention there, as well as expert health treatment when she’s feeling at her most vulnerable.’