Having your mum on social media can be embarrassing no matter who you are. So imagine how Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie feel about Fergie using Instagram. She was at her finest this week when Eugenie announced her engagement to Jack Brooksbank. ‘A total embrace of goodness and joy. We love Jack and I’m so excited to have a son, a brother and a best friend. Eugenie is one of the finest people I know and so together it will be pure harmony,’ Fergie posted with this snap, below, of the happy couple. But that’s not all she likes to share…
Picture research: Claire Cisotti
‘A total embrace of goodness and joy. We love Jack and I’m so excited to have a son, a brother and a best friend. Eugenie is one of the finest people I know and so together it will be pure harmony,’ Fergie posted with this snap of the happy couple
The announcement of an impending marriage is a time for reflection, Fergie-style. ‘I always say that the river flows well to its destiny because of the guidance of solid rock,’ she mused alongside a photo of them hugging. Mum approves of the £7,000 ring, then
Fergie’s so excited that her capital letters, punctuation and grammar have gone haywire. ‘They make laughter, and we feel the joy… thank you for the magic, Jack and Eugie. So proud of you,’ she writes over a picture of the couple giggling
Thrilled with the reaction to her pics, the Duchess thanks her fans for their ‘message and for sharing all our happiness with them and you’ on a picture of Eugenie sitting on Jack’s back as he emerges from behind a blossoming bush
Always keen to point out her closeness with ‘bestest friend’ and ex-husband Prince Andrew, she praised his venture that helps young entrepreneurs get off the ground, saying: ‘Well done for launching Pitch Global Australia.’
As a former member of the Royal Family, Fergie has been consistently excluded from ‘The Firm’ and that included the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations. But while HM may have given her former daughter-in-law the cold shoulder, Fergie offered her ‘a rose for a rose’
While the rest of the royals went walkabout on the Mall on the Queen’s 90th, Fergie watched on television and — bizarrely — took pictures when her daughters appeared on the screen (that’s her head blocking the image) before posting them online. ‘Spot the proud mother,’ she wrote
‘Beatrice, mum is sooo happy what an achievement’ she wrote on this snap of Princess Beatrice at the top of Mont Blanc during a charity climb. Beatrice, sensibly, does not have a public Instagram account
If anybody could benefit from a bit of business advice it’s Fergie, who has twice come close to bankruptcy. Here she lends support to Andrew Wallas at the launch of his book Business Alchemy , which focuses on ‘inner dynamics’ and ‘energy flows’. Sooo Fergie!
Fergie plugs her range of Duchess teas, lining them up on the top of a book cabinet. Inside are two copies of her ex-husband’s book of photography, alongside various other volumes about the Royal Family, a book called Horse Whisperer and one entitled The Quest For Love. Lawks…
Sarah endorses a Canadian wifi system for children that filters online material. ‘At last we can buy protection for our children,’ she says, tagging Justin Bieber. Having his 96.3 million followers looking at the product can’t hurt…
Modelled on herself, soft toy Little Red is the character Fergie created for her children’s book of the same name. As the Duchess told her Instagram followers: ‘Little Red, a leader for children to herald more kindness and goodness.’ Not to mention a way to plug Duchess Blends tea. Cheers!
Proving she’s kind enough to plug for the Royals too, Fergie here shows off a ‘magic’ cup from the Royal Collection shop, artfully styled with a pink rose
‘Thank you so much for the beautiful dress,’ she wrote to Simin Couture for kitting her out in this emerald gown at the Cannes Film Festival. Fergie never knowingly lets a freebie go unremarked upon…
Fergie is not afraid to share lessons from therapy and it shows in her posts where rivers, rebirth and coming into the light are a theme. With this picture, she wrote: ‘Sometimes the darkness can show us the light. If only we embraced the darkness and not be so scared of it.’
What better way to start your day than with a life-affirming statement. Fergie urged followers to ‘Light that fire within and colour your brilliance’ alongside a picture of sun rays bursting through trees
‘Wrinkled maybe . . . but not in the soul,’ was another profound statement from the Duchess. She wasn’t talking about herself after yet another holiday, rather this old and gnarled tree trunk encountered somewhere on her travels
A tree in its autumn finery was all that was needed for Sarah to start waxing lyrical about inner fires once more. ‘Hope is the flame within and when you connect to your own flame, you will know the answers. Hold the flame,’ she said
‘Little gifts of goodness from nature, thank you,’ Fergie wrote gratefully on a picture of really rather wilted snowdrops in what appears to be an egg cup
If you thought Fergie’s jaunts always started with a limo to the airport and a first-class plane ticket, think again. ‘The journey always begins with a decision to wish to know more. Keep being curious,’ she told fans. Shame she didn’t reveal who the men on donkeys were…
A quick visit to the £13 million chalet she shares with Prince Andrew in Verbier gives Fergie pause for reflection. ‘The horizon is just the limit of our sight. Keep exploring inwardly and the journey will show more avenues,’ she urged, before heading back to the slopes
Nothing says ‘spring’ like a toy hedgehog and a vase of wilting flowers. ‘Nature’s genius,’ said Fergie, who must have had her reasons for posting the bizarre image. Perhaps it’s where the river of destiny led her?
‘Angels are around us,’ writes Fergie on a picture of a crystal statue, which appears to have been dropped on the floor judging by the crack on its wing