Sarah Ferguson has imagined how Prince Harry’s mum might have reacted to him quitting full-time royal duties with wife Meghan.
The Duchess of York, who has said she was best friends with Princess Diana since they were teenagers, shared her thoughts on Australian radio programme The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Fergie, 61, was asked if Diana would have been ‘happy’ about the couple’s fateful decision to leave the family and uproot to the US.
She said: ‘What I think that she would have been is very proud of her boys standing tall and firm.
‘They’re very like her, and she would have been very proud.’
She added: ‘Life is tough enough. We don’t need to be judging others. We need to be open to seeing life in another way.’
Harry and Meghan announced on Instagram that they were to ‘step back as senior members’ of the royal family in January 2020.
Two months later they moved to America and last summer bought an £11 million nine-bedroom Californian mansion, where they now live.
In an interview with Oprah this March, Meghan said the pressures of living within the royal family drove her to thoughts of suicide.
Even more explosively, she said there were conversations within the family about how dark their first son’s skin might be.
Fergie, as she is known, also touched upon Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, who married in 2011.
In the jovial appearance on the radio show, she said: ‘Diana would be very proud of her sons.
‘I think they’re exceptional, exceptional boys with exceptional wives and fabulous children. I think she would be going, “Yes!”’.
She also spoke about what sort of grandma Diana – who was tragically killed aged 36 in a car crash in Paris in August 1997 – would have been.
She said: ‘Oh my goodness, can you imagine the grandmother races we would have together? The parties!
‘I would bounce her off the bouncy castle, that’s for sure. Although she would out-run me. She was just like a gazelle. And, of course, her tinkering laughter and what a beautiful woman.’
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