A royal bond that stole hearts came to an end after a surprising move.
A royal author shared his opinion on what went wrong between the two royal wives, who were once best friends.
Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson’s friendship ended after Andrew’s ex-wife published her autobiography, according to Andrew Lownie.
Diana, the late mother of Prince William and Harry, reportedly distanced herself over concerns that the mother of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie was undermining her reputation and peddling stories.
In a new video released by daily mail On May 28, the historian and author recapped the arc of the relationship between the two women.
Diana and Ferguson, 66, were fourth cousins and childhood friends who married into the royal family just a few years apart.
The late princess was reportedly the one who introduced Ferguson to former Prince Andrew.
Lownie claimed the sisters-in-law quarreled over Ferguson’s 1996 autobiography, My Story, “in which she referred to getting a wart.” [wart] to borrow some shoes from Lady Diana.”
“In fact, the reality was that Diana was very concerned that Sarah Ferguson might be selling stories about her, and that relationship was never repaired, although Sarah Ferguson pretended it was,” he said.
Lownie, author of the best-selling investigative biography of 2025 Titled: The Rise and Fall of the House of YorkHe alleged that Ferguson was someone Diana turned to to express her frustrations about life in the royal fold.
“There were some concerns that Diana had that Fergie was perhaps being too boisterous, and was somehow undermining Diana’s own reputation, and she started to distance herself,” he said.
The author claimed that Diana also pulled a “hard trick” on Ferguson by telling him that they would both be divorcing their husbands, the future King Charles and then-Prince Andrew, at the same time.
However, Diana “let Sarah Ferguson do it alone and basically learned from how the royal family treated Sarah Ferguson about how she herself would handle the divorce.”
Ferguson and Andrew divorced in 1992 after a decade of marriage, but remained close in the years that followed. However, they continued to live together at Royal Lodge, the house from which they were evicted in October 2025, in light of renewed scrutiny surrounding their links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Diana and Charles, for their part, married in the “wedding of the century” in 1981, separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996. William and Harry’s mother lost her life in a car accident in Paris the following year, at the age of 36.
Ferguson, popularly known as Fergei, previously claimed that she and Diana uniquely supported each other during the heyday when they dominated the cover as the “Wives of Windsor”.
