{"id":282754,"date":"2026-02-13T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:45:12","slug":"sarah-fergusons-exclusion-from-royal-event-left-her-pondering-mistakes-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282754\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson&#8217;s exclusion from royal event left her pondering &#8216;mistakes&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Oprah Winfrey a short time after the royal wedding, Sarah said: &#8220;I was not invited, and I chose to go and be in Thailand in a place called Camelia and&#8230;the jungle embraced me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also left her feeling &#8220;worthless&#8221; and pondering her past mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;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?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;I really love the feeling that sort of Diana and I both weren&#8217;t there,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I&#8217;m here to say how proud she would have been and Kate looked utterly beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fergie&#8217;s close ties with the Royal Family have unravelled in recent months as a result of her connection to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/jeffrey-epstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped of her Duchess title, Sarah has also been told to leave Royal Lodge, the home she has shared with her disgraced ex-husband Andrew since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The former couple were previously known to be on exceptionally good terms and lived together at <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Royal Lodge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/royal-lodge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Lodge<\/a> in Windsor, even three decades after their split. Sarah even once described them as the &#8220;happiest divorced couple in the world&#8221; and repeatedly came to Andrew&#8217;s defence in public.<\/p>\n<p>Recent revelations, which saw Sarah ask Epstein to &#8220;just marry me&#8221; even after he&#8217;d been convicted, have clearly taken their toll.<\/p>\n<p>*** Ensure our latest royal headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here to activate<\/a> or just add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings. ***<\/p>\n<p>A source told <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/883247\/sarah-ferguson-comeback-whereabouts-finally-revealed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HELLO<\/a>! magazine last month that Sarah will not be joining ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor when he moves to Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>They said: &#8220;She has stood by him all these years but is now ready to spread her wings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They added: &#8220;She won&#8217;t be moving in with him to the new house on the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Sandringham House\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/sandringham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sandringham Estate<\/a>. She won&#8217;t be moving into Beatrice&#8217;s Cotswolds home though. Eugenie&#8217;s home in Portugal is a contender while she finds somewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with Oprah Winfrey a short time after the royal wedding, Sarah said: &#8220;I was not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,124611,15860,111,139,69,33246,4289,48173,61442,3164,11067,157934,18315,10744],"class_list":{"0":"post-282754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-epstein-files","10":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-prince-of-wales","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-prince-william-latest-news","17":"tag-prince-william-news","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royal-family-latest-news","20":"tag-royal-wedding","21":"tag-sarah-ferguson","22":"tag-william"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}