
Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s wedding was missing one Duchess.
Sarah Ferguson, former wife of Prince Andrew and mother of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie was not invited to the April 29th Westminster Abbey nuptials.
The Duchess of York, 51, recognizes that because she was caught up in a scandal last year (she was caught on tape offering access to Prince Andrew for $724,000) she didn’t get the invite, but it didn’t lessen the sting.
She told Oprah and the audience of The Oprah Winfrey Show “I was not invited.”
“I went through the phase of feeling so totally worthless and that it was quite right they didn’t invite me. Why would they – why would they invite me?”
Ferguson says she left the UK to watch the wedding on TV like everyone else.
‘I felt that I ostracised myself by my behaviour, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
‘I chose to go and be in Thailand in a place called Camelia… the jungle embraced me,’ she said.
Ultimately, she spent time on the phone with Andrew, before the ceremony, who tried cheering her up.
“When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, “It’s okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect,” she recalled. “Because we’re such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th.”
Ferguson, 51, fondly remembered her good friend, the late Princess Diana, and felt she would have been immensely proud of William and Kate.
“I really love the feeling that sort of Diana and I both weren’t there,” the Duchess said. “But I’m here to say how proud she would have been and Kate looked utterly beautiful.”
“I think Diana would be so proud of her son. Both of them, you know? They did a great job.”
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