“ was the year we first put words to the unspeakable idea that had been nudging us in the ribs for some time: that one or both of us might leave the royal family,” Ferguson wrote in My Story. “And the policeman in the front goes, ‘You can’t do that.’ And then eventually they realized that it was Diana and me.”Īfter supporting each other on their respective wedding days, the friends would later lean on each other as both of their marriages fell apart. “She just looked around and saw smoky bacon-flavored crisps and started taking them and eating them,” the royal told host Kelly Clarkson. ”įerguson recalled that the late princess was unperturbed by their run-in with the law. “We go in the back of the van, and had put her engagement ring the other way, and I had put my engagement ring the other way. “We were arrested by parks police,” she explained during a March 2023 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

She later admitted that she and the partygoers, including Diana, got arrested for impersonating police officers at the shindig. Prior to her wedding to Andrew, Ferguson became the first female member of the royal family to have a hen party. Although the royal couple had known each other as children, they reconnected in 1985 when Queen Elizabeth II invited Ferguson to an event at Windsor Castle at Diana’s recommendation. The author and Diana went from friends to family members when Ferguson married Prince Andrewin 1986. “She was two years younger than I, and I strove to support and protect her as I would a younger sister,” the duchess later wrote in her 1997 book, My Story. She became a confidant to the Princess of Wales as she navigated her transition into royal life. When Diana married King Charles III in 1981, Ferguson was in attendance. Nobody made me laugh like she did,” the Duchess of York told Harper’s Bazaar in February 2007. “Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew. At the time, Diana was 19 and Ferguson was 21. The twosome were fourth cousins and knew each other as adolescents, although their friendship truly started to blossom when they reconnected in 1980. Sadly, at the end, we hadn’t spoken for a year, although I never knew the reason, except that once Diana got something in her head it stuck there for a while,” she wrote.

“It is true that our friendship was periodically strained. In her 2011 memoir, Finding Sarah, Ferguson recalled the pair’s falling out before Diana died at 36 in a 1997 car crash in Paris. Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson were both sisters-in-law and close friends, but their relationship was not without conflict.

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