Paddy McNally, the motorsport mogul linked to Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, died aged 88 after a long illness. His death came two months after the sudden death of his son Sean in Scotland.
McNally and Sarah Ferguson were together for three years, from 1982 to 1985, and she later married Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor roughly a year after they split. He remained in touch with her after the relationship ended, and the reported use of his Verbier chalet by Sarah Ferguson and Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie kept his name attached to the family for years.
Sean and Rollo
Sarah Ferguson first encountered McNally when she was employed to care for his sons Sean and Rollo after the death of his wife. That detail explains why their connection was personal long before it became public, and why his death now closes a line that ran from family life into royal circles.
Sean died in Scotland two months before his father, a sequence that leaves the family with two losses in short order. McNally’s long illness adds no medical detail, and his cause of death has not been stated separately from that broad description.
Verbier and Sarah Ferguson
McNally was said to have possessed several chalets in Verbier from 1980, and he was said to have supported Sarah Ferguson during the Epstein controversies by providing accommodation there. A separate inquiry into Prince Andrew and the Woking claim has kept attention on the wider circle around him, but this death changes the story in a more immediate way: one of the last direct links between that period and McNally’s private life is now gone.
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were photographed with McNally at the Cartier International Day at Guards Polo Club in 2004, another marker of how long his association with the family lasted. With no further step announced, the remaining question is the straightforward one his death leaves behind: what was McNally’s confirmed cause of death?
