Sarah Ferguson has compared herself to Cinderella, claiming she “took the nation by storm” with her romance with Prince Andrew.
The Duchess of York, 63, who was married to the Queen’s second son from 1986 to 1996, said the nation “stopped” for their wedding because they were so enthralled by the story of a “farmer’s daughter who married a handsome prince”. ‘.
She added that she recently watched A Cinderella Story and Ella Enchanted with her daughters and shared that “that happened to me.”
Fergie explained that she “just carries on and doesn’t ‘talk'” explaining that she “completely believes in herself” and that’s how she “became a princess.”
It’s the latest hint that she’s being welcomed back into the royal fold after revealing that her ex-husband is nursing her back to health following her recovery from a single mastectomy.
The Duchess revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had a successful single mastectomy earlier this year at King Edward VII’s Hospital in London.
She has since been recuperating at home in Royal Lodge, Windsor, where she lives with her ex-husband, despite separating nearly thirty years ago.
“In 1986, the country shut down and took a vacation on July 23,” she said in her podcast: Tea talks with the Duchess and Sarah.
The Duchess of York, 63, who was married to the Queen’s second son from 1986 to 1996, said the nation “stopped” for their wedding because they were so enthralled by the story of a “farmer’s daughter who married a handsome prince”. ‘. Pictured on her wedding day in 1986
“They stopped when the farmer’s daughter walked down the aisle with an extra tiara given by Her Majesty.”
“It had gardenias in it, it’s a special story about Cinderella.”
While admitting she was “not exactly milking cows on the farm,” Fergie insisted that her late father Ronald Ferguson — who was Prince Philip’s polo manager and lived in aristocratic circles — “had a farm.”
‘Up I went, up Westminster Abbey.
And at the end there was a handsome prince in his full naval uniform.
‘And then the nation stopped, Westminster Abbey was a buzz of faith, when I went through and signed the clerk’.
Sarah Ferguson has compared herself to Cinderella and claimed she ‘took the nation’ with her romance with Prince Andrew
She also explained that her barber climbed a ladder to do her hair, leaving the ‘poor’ Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen baffled.
“I came down the aisle and came out looking like a princess.
My heart is full of the conviction that anything is possible. Before that I worked in an art gallery and it took me 45 minutes to get to work.
‘And there I walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey.
“I spent the night at Clarence House and everyone in the street was singing ‘Fergie, Fergie!’
“I watched Cinderella with the girls the other day and said to the girls, ‘I did that!’
Elsewhere in the episode, she hinted at seeing her late mother-in-law from beyond the grave, saying she recently saw a feather and thought it was her.
“I got in my glass carriage and my dad said, ‘what do we do now’ and I said, ‘I don’t know, I’ve never done this before’, but I just kept going.
“I was completely in love with my handsome prince.”
Elsewhere in the episode, she hinted at seeing her late mother-in-law from beyond the grave, saying she recently saw a feather and thought it was her.
Although Fergie and her scandal-ridden ex-husband remain close, the couple divorced in 1996.
Fergie stunned the crowd in a silk ivory dress as she was walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey to meet her smiling prince in his naval uniform.
Despite divorcing a decade later, Fergie said her wedding day was the “best day of her life.”
On the Italian talk show Porta a Porta, she said: ‘I was the happiest girl in the world. It was really a fairy tale, because I was going to marry a prince.’