Sarah Ferguson was a great friend of Lady Di since she was a teenager and this is how the Duchess of York remembered Princess Diana on what would have been her 63rd birthday.
This July 1, the day that would have been the 63rd birthday of Princess Diana (who died in a car accident in Paris on July 31, 1997), Sarah Ferguson revived the qualities that distinguished Lady Di in life and which, as the Duchess of York's message dedicated to her on this date makes clear, left a deep mark on her, a sign of the great friendship that united them in life and long before they became part of the British Royal Family.
“Happy birthday to my dear friend Diana. "You were a pillar of light and love," Sarah Ferguson wrote on her Instagram account, along with a photograph in which she appears with Lady Di, an image in which both look towards the sky and which was taken in the years eighties, in a military event that they witnessed alongside members of the Royal Family, from the emblematic balcony of Buckingham Palace in London.
The words that the Duchess of York dedicated to Diana, to honor her memory on her birthday, reflect the affection, great admiration and example that the relationship she had with Lady Di means, to this day, for her and for many; since – as is well known – the first wife of King Charles III shone with her own light and was brought to the fore not only by society and the media in the United Kingdom, but also by international public opinion and important figures such as Mother Teresa. of Calcutta, Nelson Mandela, Gianni Versace, Elton John and Mario Testino, who recognized in the then Princess of Wales a renewing energy within the British monarchy.
“What a legacy you left,” Sarah Ferguson highlighted in the emotional message that she dedicated this July 1 to the memory of Princess Diana on what would have been her 63rd birthday. A clear reference to the generous spirit, the resilient woman who she knew how to recognize her power and give herself her place, when circumstances seemed like they were going to eat her alive; Although she finally met a tragic end when her story seemed to have a change of direction.
“I will always remember our laughter and the kind and kindred spirit that I found in you,” continued the Duchess of York, alluding to the complicity that united them at the times when as members of the Royal Family they were the object of scrutiny by millions. of eyes around the world, moments in which the cameras captured the union that existed between them and that came from a bond that emerged outside the strict palace protocol.
“I'm sure you're always watching over us. Rest in peace, my friend,” concluded the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, who after Diana's death has experienced several personal dramas, with her ex's scandals and the skin cancer she was diagnosed with being some of the most recent, although fortunately has received good news about the latter.
According to People, the friendship between Sarah Ferguson and Lady Di came from their adolescence and it was Diana who introduced Fergie (as they call her in the United Kingdom) to who would be her future husband and father of her daughters, the Prince Andrew.
“We were best friends since she was 14 and I was 15,” the Duchess of York revealed to the publication in 2021. “Diana and I had our own mental health issues and she and I used to talk. She told me: 'Fergie, remember one thing: when you're on top of the pedestal, it's very easy to fall. And if you're down, you just go up,'” she recalled.
On that occasion, Sarah Ferguson also recalled the harsh judgment that British society made of both when different and intimate episodes of both of their private lives were revealed. “We were positioned as saints and sinners. And the most important thing was to stand firm together and we did, no matter what they wrote.”
