Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie spoke honestly about their mum Sarah Ferguson when they appeared on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast earlier this year
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie spoke honestly about their mother Sarah Ferguson just months before a royal expert suggested their relationship had been impacted by recent turmoil.
Sarah’s daughters will retain their Princess titles despite their father Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being stripped of all his Royal patronages this week. Their mother Sarah was also dropped as patron by several charities following the leak of her email correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
However, before relations allegedly became tense with their mum, Beatrice and Eugenie featured on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast, where they heaped praise on Sarah. During the episode broadcast in May, Beatrice was questioned about what Sarah, 66, was like both as an individual and as a parent.
Beatrice, 37, who herself has two daughters, replied: “Do you know, my favourite thing about my mum is the more I, this is going to sound very funny, but the more I get to know her in her life, the more incredible this woman is becoming.
“As a mum, she is completely effervescent in her ability to bring joy. And as a mum she has this overwhelming sense of just turning up no matter what is happening or where she is going or what she is doing. She just turns up.”
Beatrice added: “It is such a beautiful thing. Now reflecting and preparing for this podcast, and reflecting on what she has been through, especially in the last year with some health struggles, at 64 she is sort of reaching her greatness in all levels.
“And I feel so grateful that we are actually able to share our mum with so many people because she is such a force to reckon with that it is even more exciting now than it has been for us growing up.”
Eugenie, 35, who is a mother to two boys, also shared her admiration for her mum.
She expressed: “Yeah, I would say as a woman I think she is spontaneous, I like to say mad as a box of frogs, always the joy bubble in the room.
“And then as a mum, it is the same, but also as Beatrice said, that strength…l don’t know about you guys but as you are now the mum of your family, when we are with our mum, it is like we can be little again, and we can be those little people that need their support from their mum and that just immediately comes to mind when I think about mum, that strength and that person you can always bounce off when you need to.”
Sarah found herself in hot water after it emerged she reached out to convicted sex offender Epstein weeks after promising never to speak to him again. In her apology, she wrote: “I did not use the P word about you.”
Sarah was stripped of her Duchess title when Andrew relinquished his Duke of York title before King Charles initiated a “formal process to remove” Andrew’s titles, honours and his HRH style.
As for how this has affected Beatrice and Eugenie’s perception of their mum, Rebecca English, the Royal Editor for the Daily Mail, wrote that relations had “collapsed”.
She expressed: “I would actually go so far as to say that they are even more disappointed in their mother than their father now.”
The insider went on to say: “They also love their mother dearly, of course they do. She’s a wonderful grandmother, too, and they are deeply concerned about how this is all affecting her mentally as much as their father. But I think it’s fair to say the scales have also somewhat fallen from their eyes.”
