Diana Cut Off Fergie for This One Humiliating Reason – The Truth Just Dropped After 30 Years
Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson’s once-close friendship fell apart after Ferguson published a hurtful claim in her 1996 autobiography, My Story, that she had caught “a verruca [wart] from borrowing some shoes from Lady Diana.”
“In fact, the reality was that Diana was very concerned that Sarah Ferguson might well be selling stories about her, and that relationship was never repaired, though Sarah Ferguson pretended it had,” royal author Andrew Lownie told the Daily Mail in a video published on Thursday.
The late princess and Ferguson — who were fourth cousins and childhood friends — were very close before their falling out. After Diana introduced Ferguson to Prince Andrew, the two became sisters-in-law when they married into the royal family.
Diana married the then-Prince Charles in 1981, and Ferguson, now 66, followed a few years later, marrying Andrew, also 66, in 1986.
The two women grew especially close as they bonded over their shared struggles within the royal family, Lownie claims.
“Diana would come to Sarah Ferguson every Sunday, and they would moan about the royal family. They both felt very restricted within the confines of the royal family,” he said.
Lownie continued: “But at the same time, there were some concerns Diana had that Fergie was perhaps too boisterous, and she was kind of undermining Diana’s own reputation, so she began to distance herself.”
Their friendship even allegedly survived a “tough trick” played by Diana. The two had agreed to divorce their husbands at the same time, but Diana ultimately let Sarah Ferguson go through it first and learned from how the royal family treated her.
Ferguson separated from Andrew in 1992 after a decade of marriage. They finalized their divorce in 1996, but continued to live together at Royal Lodge — until King Charles III evicted them from the royal property this past February, following his decision to strip Andrew of his royal titles the previous year.
Diana, meanwhile, separated from Charles (now 77) in 1992 and divorced him four years later.
She tragically died at the age of 36 in a car accident in Paris in 1997.
