How Kate and Meghan’s fractured relationship eerily echoes Princess Diana and Fergie’s troubled friendship – from biography betrayals to ‘terribly jealous’ moments
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Long before Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton married their Princes, fans around the world were fascinated by another set of royal wives.
Over the course of their 30-year friendship, Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson had their fair share of ups and downs – just like the daughters-in-law the late Princess of Wales sadly never got to meet.
After first getting to know each other as children, Fergie and Di found themselves navigating life in the spotlight as members of the most famous Royal Family in the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
But just as Meghan Markle struggled to adapt to life in the Firm between 2018 and 2020, Princess Diana once said that Fergie’s ability to fit into the family dynamic left her ‘feeling like dirt’.
What’s more, Princess Diana famously hadn’t spoken to her beloved friend for a year when she tragically passed away in 1997 – after reportedly being upset by comments Fergie made in her biography.
Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson (pictured in Windsor in June 1983) first met as children and were best friends when they were teenagers
Pictured: The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Westminster Abbey in November 2018
Similarly, the Princess of Wales has never publicly acknowledged her falling out with Meghan – even though Prince Harry published her personal texts to the Duchess in his bombshell memoir Spare.
Here FEMAIL takes a look back over Sarah and Diana’s friendship – and how their hardships compare with Meghan and Kate.
Early Days: Diana and Fergie
Unlike Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton, Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson came from very similar backgrounds.
The royal women were fourth cousins and reportedly descended from the fourth Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish.
What’s more, their mothers attended Downham School in Essex and so Diana and Sarah were aware of one another as children.
Speaking to People magazine in July 2021, the Duchess of York reflected on her early friendship with Diana.
She said: ‘We were best friends from when she was 14 and I was 15.’
Pictured: Princess Diana and Earl Spencer together as children. The late royal’s mother went to the same school as Sarah Ferguson’s mother
Pictured: Sarah Ferguson as a child with her first pony. The Duchess of York met Princess Diana when she was a child
Looking back on their friendship, Sarah added: ‘Every time you mention her name I smile because she had the most wonderful infectious giggle.
‘The tinkling laughter is something that always melts my heart.’
Early Days: Meghan and Kate
In contrast, the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Sussex had wildly different upbringings and crossed paths for the first time in their 30s.
However, Kate Middleton was on Meghan’s radar years before she met her husband Prince Harry.
In August 2019, a resurfaced photo of Meghan Markle holding an issue of the Irish magazine U with her sister-in-law on the front cover emerged online.
Meghan is seen beaming as she stands next to deputy editor Denise Cash in the 2014 snap, with the magazine emblazoned with a headline which incorrectly states that Kate Middleton was having twins.
The picture appears to have been taken two years before Meghan was introduced to Prince Harry and the rest of the royal family.
This photograph, taken in 2014, saw Meghan Markle holding a magazine which featured now sister-in-law Kate Middleton on the cover
The Duchess of Sussex was working as an actress on Suits at the time, and had contributed to the magazine she was holding, reportedly writing about sunglasses.
That same year, Meghan also referenced her sister-in-law on her lifestyle blog The Tig – which she shut down before her engagement to Prince Harry was announced.
The entry from 2014, which was written by Meghan during her time on Suits, revealed that she dreamt of being a ‘royal rebel’ rather than ‘a Cinderella’ as a child – as she reflected on the ‘pomp and circumstance’ and ‘endless conversation’ about the wedding of ‘Princess Kate’.
‘Little girls dream of being princesses,’ Meghan wrote in the post, before insisting: ‘I, for one, was all about She-Ra, Princess of Power.
‘For those of you unfamiliar with the ’80s cartoon reference, She-Ra is the twin sister of He-Man and a sword-wielding royal rebel known for her strength.
A blog post from Meghan Markle’s now defunct website The Tig reveals her scathing view of the ‘endless conversation’ about Prince William and Kate Middleton’s 2011 wedding
41-year-old Meghan (seen in January 2014) wrote the post two years before she started dating Prince Harry – despite claiming she didn’t know anything about the royals before they met
‘We’re definitely not talking about Cinderella here.’
She continued by noting that many adult women seem to carry on their ‘childhood fantasy’ of becoming a princess – before making a rather scathing nod to the public fascination and intrigue surrounding William and Kate’s 2011 nuptials.
‘Grown women seem to retain this childhood fantasy,’ she wrote. ‘Just look at the pomp and circumstance surrounding the royal wedding and endless conversation about Princess Kate.’
According to Prince Harry, his older brother and sister-in-law were also fans of Meghan’s before he ever began dating her.
In his bombshell biography Spare, the Duke of Sussex said that the Prince and Princess of Wales were ‘religious’ fans of the US legal drama Suits – which Meghan starred in from 2011-2018.
Pictured: Meghan Markle and Sarah Rafferty in Suits. Prince Harry claimed William and Kate were shocked when he told them he was dating an actress
Harry said his brother and Kate’s mouths ‘fell open’ in shock when he told them he was dating a Suits actress.
The Duke recounted how his brother and Kate invited him over to their home after they became suspicious that something was on his mind.
Harry recalled he told them that he had a ‘new woman’ in his life, which made the couple ‘surge forward’ in eagerness to find out who it was.
But when he revealed the woman was an American actress who starred in Suits, William and Kate’s mouths allegedly ‘fell open.’
Harry wrote: ‘They turned to each other. Then Willy turned to me and said “F*** off”.’
He said the couple then explained they were ‘religious’ viewers of the TV show.
But he added Prince William also ‘cautioned’ him about the romance, saying: ‘She’s an American actress, after all, Harold. Anything might happen.’
Beginning of royal life: Diana and Fergie
In 1980, Princess Diana reconnected Sarah Ferguson. Around this time, the Princess of Wales – who was only 19 at the time – had just started dating King Charles.
Pictured: Princess Diana when she was working as a nursery school assistant in Pimlico, London in 1980
The royal told her biographer Andrew Morton: ‘I met Fergie when Charles was getting near me and she kept rearing her head for some reason and she seemed to know all about the royal set-up, things like that. She just sort of encouraged it.’
Appearing in the 2020 Channel 5 documentary Fergie Vs Diana: Royal Wives At War, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond said: ‘Diana felt that Fergie was a safe pair of hands and that her secrets were going to be secure with her.’
Royal expert Katie Nicholl added: ‘They would frequently meet for lunch. Often once a week.
‘If they weren’t lunching together they were at the Palace catching up over cups of tea.’
Beginning of royal life: Kate and Meghan
Prince Harry reportedly introduced Kate to his girlfriend of six months, Meghan, in January 2017.
Prince Harry reportedly introduced Kate to his girlfriend of six months, Meghan, in January 2017 – and the two made their first joint appearance that December
The then-Suits actress had already met Prince William two months prior, while the Princess of Wales was in Norfolk with her family.
The new couple had just returned from their first romantic holiday together in Norway, where they reportedly watched the Northern Lights.
A source told The Sun that Kate was ‘really looking forward’ to meeting Meghan.
The insider said: ‘They are very close and he really values her opinion on girlfriends.
‘Obviously Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, died when he was very young so Kate really fulfils that older sister/maternal role.’
At the time it was reported the meeting had gone ‘really well’ and it had been ‘important’ to the duke that the princess liked his new partner.
Pictured: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the Invictus Games in Toronto in September 2017. The Duchess of Sussex revealed she wore ripped jeans to meet Kate and William for the first time in her Netflix documentary
However despite the reports, Meghan recounted in the couple’s Netflix series Harry & Meghan that the introduction had been awkward.
The Duchess of Sussex revealed she was ‘barefoot’ and wearing ripped jeans when she first met Kate.
Discussing the meeting , she said she did not know the ‘formality’ continues behind closed doors and that she is a ‘hugger’ – which she did not realise was ‘jarring for some Brits’.
She admitted she was ‘surprised’ there is a ‘forward-facing way of being and then you close the door’.
She said: ‘Even when Will and Kate came over and I was meeting her for the first time I remember I was in ripped jeans, I was barefoot. Like I was a hugger, I have always been a hugger I didn’t realise that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.’
‘I started to understand that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside, that there is a forward facing way of being and then you close the door and think “OK we can relax now”.
In his new book, Prince Harry writes how there were signs of conflict early on in the relationship. He details how Meghan asked to borrow a lip-gloss from Kate ahead of their appearance at the first Royal Foundation forum summit in 2018
‘But that formality carries over on both sides and that was surprising to me.’
When the engagement was announced, Meghan had also paid tribute to Kate for welcoming her into the family.
‘Catherine has been absolutely amazing, as has William as well, you know, fantastic support,’ Meghan said in an interview to mark her engagement to Harry.
After Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement was announced in November 2017, the happy couple took part in a Royal Foundation forum with the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Following this, the two couples were dubbed the ‘Fab Four’ as royal fans celebrated the beginning of a new chapter in the Royal Family’s history.
Elsewhere in this book, he detailed how Meghan asked to borrow a lip-gloss from Kate ahead of their appearance at the first Royal Foundation forum summit.
He writes that Kate was surprised, but rummaged around in her bag before offering it to Meghan.
Harry goes on to claim that Meg applied a little gloss to her finger, and rubbed it across her lips, before Kate made a ‘disgusted’ face.
In his 2022 book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors, royal expert Tom Bower claimed the Duchess of Sussex was disappointed in Kate’s reaction to marrying into the Royal Family.
The author claimed: ‘Within a short time she complained that Kate had not adequately welcomed her.
‘The difference of background and experience made them unlikely soulmates. There could be little intimacy.’
First fall-out: Diana and Fergie
When Princess Diana married King Charles in 1981, Sarah Ferguson was among the guests at St Paul’s Cathedral.
She wrote in her biography: ‘Diana invited me to her wedding, a very big deal, and thoughtfully gave me some material to make up into a dress – needless to say, I had nothing suitable in Clapham.’
Pictured: Princess Diana and King Charles seen leaving St Paul’s Cathedral following their wedding in July 1981
Sarah Ferguson said she was ‘hurt’ not to be invited to Princess Diana’s reception at Buckingham Palace after the ceremony. Pictured: the pair together days before the wedding
However, the Duchess of York later revealed how upset she was not to bag an invite to the Buckingham Palace reception later that day.
She added: ‘Diana’s flatmates were all included for wedding “breakfast” at the Palace but I had not been invited.
‘My feelings were hurt – there was nothing like a grand occasion to make me feel fat and unworthy.’
In the Channel 5 documentary Fergie Vs Diana: Royal Wives at War, Sarah Ferguson’s friend Lizzy Cundy said Sarah was disappointed that she wasn’t allowed to be Diana’s lady-in-waiting.
She added: ‘Sarah was told that she was unsuitable to be Diana’s lady-in-waiting, which was a huge blow to Sarah.
‘I think the Royal Family felt Sarah wasn’t posh enough. Diana was actually quite upset about this, but maybe she didn’t fight for Sarah enough.’
First fall-out: Kate and Meghan
Although Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle appeared to be getting on tremendously well at first, it seems as though things behind-the-scenes were growing tense.
Harry and Meghan celebrate their wedding day in May 2018 despite tensions within the family and drama with Meghan’s father
Kate and Meghan exchanged a series of texts (re-created, above) about the bridesmaid dress, according to Harry
In Spare, Prince Harry released text messages between Kate and Meghan which shed light on their dispute over Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress ahead of the Royal Wedding.
The Duke writes that Meghan received a text from Kate four days before their wedding saying there was a problem with the dresses for the bridesmaids and they needed altering.
They were ‘French couture’ and had been hand-sewn from measurements only – without a fitting – so ‘it wasn’t a big shock’ that they might not fit perfectly, he says.
Harry writes: ‘Meg didn’t reply to Kate straight away. Yes, she had endless wedding-related texts, but mostly she was dealing with the chaos surrounding her father. So the next morning she texted Kate that our tailor was standing by.’
She told her that his name was Ajay and he was ‘at the palace’. ‘This wasn’t sufficient,’ Harry goes on to write darkly.
After setting up a time to speak later that afternoon, Harry writes that Kate complained: ‘Charlotte’s dress is too big, too long, too baggy. She cried when she tried it on a home.’
Pictured: Princess Charlotte in her bridesmaid dress for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in 2018
Meghan snapped back: ‘Right, and I told you the tailor has been standing by since 8am. Here. At KP. Can you take Charlotte to have it altered, as the other mums are doing?’
According to Harry’s version of events, Kate replied: ‘No, all the dresses need to be remade.’ And said she had discussed the issue with her ‘own wedding designer’ who agreed.
Harry writes: ‘Meg asked if Kate was aware of what was going on right now. With her father. Kate said she was well aware, but the dresses. And the wedding is in four days!’
‘Yes, Kate, I know….’ his fiancée replied sharply.
He also claims that his sister-in-law had ‘problems with the way Meg was planning her wedding. Something about a party for the page boys? It went back and forth’.
The prince reports his wife as saying: ‘I’m not sure what else to say. If the dress doesn’t fit then please take Charlotte to see Ajay. He’s been waiting all day.’
‘Fine’, Kate is said to have replied.
Meghan, Harry, William and Kate watching a fly-past to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force in 2018
Harry states that he arrived home a short time later, which suggests that he and his ghost writer were given an account of the actual conversation by Meghan, to find his fiancée ‘on the floor sobbing’.
While he says he was ‘horrified’ to see her so upset, he didn’t think it a catastrophe as emotions were understandably high. He told Meghan that ‘Kate hadn’t meant any harm’.
In June 2018, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were invited to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Kensington Palace apartment in a bid to ‘relax the atmosphere’ between the couples.
However, the Duke of Sussex alleged the chat over tea and biscuits in June 2018 – weeks after the Sussexes’ Windsor wedding – descended into another conflict because the Duchess of Sussex told Kate that she must have ‘baby brain because of her hormones’.
William then called Meghan ‘rude’ to her face and ‘pointed a finger at her’ and explained: ‘These things are not done here’. Meghan then told William: ‘If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face’.
Defending his wife, Harry writes in his new book: ‘Meg said that she had never intentionally done anything to offend Kate and that if she had, she begged her to let her know so she could avoid a reoccurrence’.
Reconnecting: Diana and Fergie
Pictured: Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson pictured at the start of their honeymoon in August 1986
Although Sarah Ferguson was hurt not to attend Diana’s wedding reception, she says she grew even closer to the late royal following her nuptials.
She added: ‘[Diana] was two years younger than I, and I strove to support and protect her as I would a younger sister—as I still do today, as a best friend.’
In 1985, Princess Diana bagged Sarah an invite one of the Queen’s parties at Windsor Castle for the Royal Ascot.
During a formal lunch, the Duchess of York was sat next to her future husband Prince Andrew – who she had known since she was a child.
After they hit it off at the event, Princess Diana encouraged Sarah to visit Andrew when his ship docked in London six months later.
She recalled: ‘To make me feel stronger in my first public appearance with the Royal Family. Diana lent me a smart black-and-white checked coatdress […] I always felt safe in mimicking DIana – she was so far ahead of me on the learning curve, such a deft ambassadress for Britain and the Royal Family. No situation fazed her.’
Reconnecting: Kate and Meghan
In the summer of 2018, the Princess of Wales is said to have sent her new sister-in-law some flowers to try and smooth things over.
Pictured: Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle attending the second week of Wimbledon in 2018
In their biography Finding Freedom, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durant claimed Meghan was ‘disappointed’ Kate never reached out to her or visited.
According to insiders, the sisters-in-law ‘struggled to move past distance politeness’ and had ‘nothing in common other than the fact that they lived at Kensington Palace’.
However, Vanity Fair’s royal columnist Katie Nicholl claimed Kate sent flowers ‘at one point’ to ‘rectify the situation’, but the Duchess of Sussex was nonplussed.
The royal author wrote: ‘Meghan told Kate in no uncertain terms that flowers were not enough.’
However, the two royal women put on a united front that summer when they attended Wimbledon together.
Growing closer: Diana and Fergie
Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson only grew closer following Prince Andrew’s proposal in 1986.
Earlier this year, the Duchess of York claimed they were arrested at her hen do before the wedding.
The Duchess of York , 63, recalled how she dressed up as a police officer with Princess Diana (left) for her last night of freedom before marrying Prince Andrew
Sarah divulged the antics on The Kelly Clarkson Show, explaining that her entourage had dressed up as police officers for a night out in London.
They headed to a club where they were refused service because the venue was meant to be a place for ‘fun’ before they had a run in with the police for impersonating officers.
Speaking on the show, Fergie said: ‘We sat down, and the waiter came up to us and said, “Excuse me, this is a members club. It’s for fun, and we don’t serve police officers here.”‘
An astounded Kelly Clarkson replied: ‘They thought you were real police officers?’ to which the Duchess said: ‘Yes!’
After leaving the club, the gang ended up getting caught by the real police and were driven away in a van, hiding their engagement rings once they were inside.
According to the duchess, Diana, then the Princess of Wales, spotted some ‘smoky bacon-flavoured crisps’ in the van and ‘started taking them and eating them’.
The shocked police officer shouted at the princess saying: ‘You can’t do that!’ before they eventually realised they had royalty in the back of their vehicle and released them.
It has been reported that the excitement did not stop there and the group then headed to the exclusive Mayfair club Annabel’s where Prince Andrew was also reportedly partying.
Failing to bump into Prince Andrew at the club, the gang later played a trick on him by shutting the Buckingham Palace gates as he approached in his car, making him fear an ambush.
Speaking of the riotous occasion, royal biographer Sarah Bradford previously told The Daily Mail: ‘There was always trouble afoot when the two women got together, like on Fergie’s hen night when she and Diana wore grey wigs, dressed up as policewomen and pretended to arrest a “prostitute” outside Buckingham Palace.
Growing further apart: Kate and Meghan
In May 2019, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their son Archie into the world – which is said to have further frostiness between the two couples.
Ahead of his arrival, it was reported that the Duchess of Sussex ‘felt sorry’ for Kate during Prince George’s baby reveal.
A source told Page Six Kate’s perfectly polished look had put Meghan off the much sought after photo shoot following the birth, especially after the Princess of Wales had emerged looking immaculate following Prince Louis’ arrival.
Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle seen watching Prince William and Prince Harry play polo in July 2019 (pictured)
During the appearance, which took place months before Megxit, Kate and Meghan were barely seen interacting – though Prince Louis made the women laugh at one point
However, the couple’s decision to have a private, family christening is said to have bothered the Prince and Princess of Wales.
A source told Us Weekly that the Waleses ‘weren’t happy’ about the Sussexes’ decision to keep the celebration private.
Speculation of a falling out between the then-Cambridges and the Sussexes began to grow after the announcement that Harry and Meghan would be moving away from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage.
Around this time, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex split from Kate and William’s Royal Foundation.
A source told Vanity Fair that ‘Kate and Meghan are very different people and they don’t have a lot in common but they have made an effort to get along.’
Reports also began to emerge Meghan was ‘very sensitive’ about being ‘number two’ to Kate.
Royal author Tom Quinn claimed that during her time in the Firm, Meghan rowed with Kensington Palace staff over ‘getting the sort of attention she deserved’.
And according to the authors of Finding Freedom, the stand-offish episode at a charity polo match in July 2019 was a snapshot of Meghan and Kate’s ‘cordial but distant rapport.’
‘While the doting mothers were photographed next to each other with their children, the two appeared to barely exchange a word,’ the authors penned.
Fractions in relationship to partners in crime: Diana and Fergie
Despite being the best of friends ahead of Sarah and Andrew’s wedding, Diana and the Duchess of York struggled both being in the spotlight.
In the biography Diana: Her True Story, the late Princess of Wales detailed how Sarah left her ‘looking like dirt’ when she first joined the Royal Family
For the 1992 biography Diana: Her True Story, the late royal told Andrew Morton: ‘I got terribly jealous of Fergie and she got terribly jealous of me.’
On one occasion, the Princess claimed King Charles told her: ‘I wish you would like Fergie – all jolly.’
After her wedding to Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson took up carriage-driving – which was famously Prince Philip’s favourite sport.
The late Queen was also said to have been impressed by her new daughter-in-law getting her pilot’s license.
Discussing how Sarah threw herself into life in the Royal Family, Diana added: ‘I thought she would be like me and put her head down and be shy.
‘No, a different kettle of fish altogether and she wooed everybody in this family and did so well. She left me looking like dirt.’
Earlier this year, Sarah admitted on her podcast that she looked to Diana for guidance when she first joined the Royal Family.
She recalled: ‘I remember when I first became a princess with Dutch, and I watched her work a room, and I just copied her.
‘I mirrored her, how she did it, because she was just incredible. She just immediately went in with her heart, full heart, full energy, and she left everything outside the door.’
Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson pictured on the Buckingham Palace balcony for Trooping the Colour in 1987
However, the two women bonded over their marriage difficulties in the early 1990s.
In her biography, Sarah Ferguson wrote: ‘[1991] 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.
‘We burned the phone wires into the night, trading secrets and jokes that no-one else would understand.’
By 1992, the two women had both separated from their partners and continued meeting up with their children.
When their divorces were finalised four years later, Diana and Sarah took William, Harry, Beatrice and Eugenie on holiday to the South of France.
Working separately in institution: Kate and Meghan
After splitting from the Royal Foundation, Meghan Markle launched her first clothing collection in collaboration with her patronage Smart Works.
At an event at John Lewis in Oxford Circus in 2019, Meghan said: ‘As women, it is 100 per cent our responsibility, I think, to support and up-lift each other.
Pictured: Kate and Pippa Middleton watch the Women’s Singles Wimbledon Final with Meghan Markle in July 2019
Meghan is pictured chatting to Kate at Wimbledon in 2019, when the relationship between the pair was said to be tense
‘To champion each other so we aim to succeed, to not set each other up for failure, but instead to really be there rallying round each other and say “I want to help you”.
‘So I thought that it would probably be helpful for you to understand how we ended up here today and why this collection was so important to conceive based on the visits and what I was seeing when I was on site at Smart Works. And let’s maybe go back a little bit.’
Later that summer, Meghan Markle joined Kate and Pippa Middleton to the Wimbledon.
Wimbledon was a rare joint appearance for Meghan and Kate, who were typically only seen together at official engagements attended by the entire royal family, such as Trooping the Colour.
However, under all the smiles and laughs between the pair and Kate’s sister, Pippa Middleton, it seems that tension was bubbling below the surface.
Meghan shed some light on how she was really feeling during that Wimbledon final in her Oprah interview.
Meghan told Oprah in 2021 that ‘it’s nothing like what it looks like,’ when commenting on royal appearances
In 2021, Oprah asked the Duchess: ‘Did you feel welcomed by everyone? It seemed like you and Kate… at the Wimbledon game where you were going to watch a friend play tennis…
‘Was it what it looked like? You are two sisters-in-law out there in the world, getting to know each other.
‘Was she helping you, embracing you into the family, helping you adjust?’
Meghan started off by saying: ‘I think everyone welcomed me.’
But then she said: ‘When you say, “Was it what it looked like?”, my understanding and my experience of the past four years is, it’s nothing like what it looks like.
‘It’s nothing like what it looks like. ‘
The Duchess then went on to say that the royal family would advise her on what she should and shouldn’t do and how it may look to those outside of The Firm.
Final falling out: Diana and Fergie
Sadly, Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson hadn’t spoken for a year when the royal tragically passed away in August 1997.
According to royal expert Robert Jobson, the late Princess of Wales asked her friend not to make any mention of her in her biography – which was published in 1996.
Pictured: The Duchess of York seen attending Princess Diana’s funeral at Westminster Abbey in September 1997
Speaking in the 2019 documentary The Royal Family at War, the author said: ‘Sarah made clear that she was going to write a book, and Diana was supportive of that.
‘But she said, I don’t want you to mention me at all.’
As such, the Princess of Wales was left furious when Sarah accused her of giving her verrucas when she borrowed some shoes in the early days of her relationship with Andrew.
She wrote in the book: ‘Diana helped me by giving me all her shoes (and less happily, her plantar warts).’
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar in 2018, Fergie recalled how she begged Diana to forgive her.
She said: ‘I tried, wrote letters, thinking whatever happened didn’t matter, let’s sort it out. 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.”‘
Paying tribute to the woman she said was like a ‘sister’, Fergie added: ‘Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.’
Current relationship: Kate and Meghan
In her bombshell Oprah interview in March 2021, Meghan Markle weighed in on the state of her relationship with her sister-in-law.
The Duchess was discussing how reports emerged in 2018 that Meghan had made Kate cry over her bridesmaids dresses – when she claimed the opposite was true.
During her March 2021 interview with Oprah, Meghan Markle described her sister-in-law as a ‘good person’
Meghan said ‘everyone in the institution knew that wasn’t true’ and she hoped Kate ‘would have wanted that to be corrected’.
The former Suits star said: ‘She is a good person’.
In June 2021, Kate revealed that she had yet to meet Harry and Meghan’s daughter Lilibet.
Appearing alongside US First Lady Jill Biden at the G7 Summit in Cornwall, Kate was asked about her new niece, and told reporters: ‘I wish her all the very best.
‘I can’t wait to meet her because we haven’t yet met her yet, so hopefully that will be soon.’
Asked by DailyMail.com if she had spoken to Lilibet on FaceTime, the temperature in the room appeared to drop a few degrees as the Duchess replied: ‘No I haven’t.’
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