Fergie's heartbreak over 'best friend' Princess Diana
Princess Eugenie wed Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle last month, and it brought her mother Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York right back into the spotlight alongside the royal family.
But there was one person who wasn’t there, Fergie’s “best friend” the late Princess Diana.
Fergie missed Diana at Eugenie’s wedding
The Duchess has opened up about how much she missed having Diana at the royal nuptials in October.
“I thought of absent friends and family; of Diana — but she’s with me all the time,” she told the Daily Mail.
Despite having a complicated relationship in previous years, the 59-year-old referred to Diana as her “best friend and the funniest person [she] knew”.
“It was a total joy to be with her because we just laughed and enjoyed life so much, and I know she would have loved the wedding,” Fergie added.
Fergie and Diana’s complex friendship
From being distant cousins, to in-laws, to best friends and then rivals; it’s safe to say Diana and Fergie’s relationship is definitely a complex one.
Unknown to many, Diana and Sarah’s relationship began way before their royal lives started. In fact, the two women are actually distant cousins – fourth cousins to be precise. They’re both descendants of William Cavendish, the Fourth Duke of Devonshire.
After they both married into the royal family, the pair relied on each other, but it didn’t take long for a rivalry to emerge between them both.
Their friendship suffered even more after they both left the confines of the royal family.
While the pair were initially close after their separations – and eventual divorces – from royal brothers Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, by late 1996 the pair had stopped speaking.
Diana’s death
Less than one year later in August 1997, Princess Diana passed a fatal car crash in Paris.
The Duchess of York attended her funeral, and later admitted her upset about their falling out.
“Because we were like siblings… we rowed,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2011. “And the saddest thing, at the end, we hadn’t spoken for a year.”
“I tried, wrote letters, thinking whatever happened didn’t matter, let’s sort it out,” she added. “And I knew she’d come back.
“In fact, the day before she died she rang a friend of mine and said, ‘Where’s that Red? I want to talk to her.'”
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