Sarah Ferguson has compared herself to Cinderella and claimed she ‘captured the nation’ with her romance to 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 with the story of a ‘farmer’s daughter marrying a handsome prince’.
She added that she recently watched A Cinderella Story and Ella Enchanted with her daughters and told them ‘that happened to me’.
Explaining how she just ‘gets on with it and doesn’t ‘faff around’, Fergie explained that she ‘completely believes in herself’ and that’s how she ‘became a Princess’.
It’s the latest hint she is being welcomed back into the royal fold after revealing her ex-husband is nursing her back to health following her recovery from a single mastectomy.
The Duchess revealed she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone a successful single mastectomy at King Edward VII’s Hospital in London, earlier this year.
She has since been recovering at home at Royal Lodge, Windsor, where she lives with her ex-husband, despite splitting nearly 30 years ago.
‘In 1986, the nation stopped and took a holiday on July 23,’ she said on 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 with the story of a ‘farmer’s daughter marrying a handsome prince’. Pictured on her wedding day in 1986
‘They stopped for the farmer’s daughter going up the aisle with an extra tiara on given by Her Majesty’.
‘It had gardenias all the way through it, it’s an extraordinary story of Cinderella.’
While admitting she ‘wasn’t exactly milking cows on the farm,’ Fergie emphasised that her late father Ronald Ferguson – who was Prince Philip’s polo manager and ran in aristocratic circles – ‘had a farm’.
‘Up I went, up Westminster Abbey,.
‘And at the end was a handsome prince with his full naval uniform on.
‘And then the nation stopped, Westminster Abbey was a buzz with belief, when I went through and signed the registrar’.
Sarah Ferguson has compared herself to Cinderella and claimed she ‘captured the nation’ with her romance to Prince Andrew
She also explained that her hairdresser climbed a ladder to do her hair, leaving the ‘poor’ Duke of Edinburgh and Queen baffled.
‘I came down the aisle and came out a princess.
‘My heart is full with belief that anything is possible, before that I was working in an art gallery and it took me 45 minutes to get to work.
‘And there I was walking up the aisle at Westminster Abbey.
‘I spent the night at Clarence House and everyone on the streets was chanting “Fergie, Fergie!”
‘I was watching Cinderella with the girls the other day and I 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 that she saw a feather the other day and thought it was her
‘I got in my glass coach and my father said to “what do we do now” and I said ” I don’t know, I’ve never done this before” but I just got on with it.
‘I was totally in love with my handsome prince’.
Elsewhere in the episode, she hinted at seeing her late mother-in-law from beyond the grave, saying that she saw a feather the other day and thought it was her.
Although Fergie and her scandal-ridden ex-husband remain close, the pair divorce in 1996.
Fergie stunned crowds in a silk ivory dress as she was walked down the Westminster Abbey aisle to meet her smiling prince in his naval uniform.
Despite getting divorced ten years later, Fergie said that her wedding day was the ‘best day of her life’.
Speaking on Italian talk show Porta a Porta, she said: ‘I was the luckiest girl in the world. It was truly a fairytale because I was marrying a prince.’
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