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Long before Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spoke to Oprah Winfrey about the trials of royal life, Sarah Ferguson spilled her own tea in a 1996 interview.
In the hours leading up to the Sussexes’ bombshell tell-all Sunday on CBS, a clip from Ferguson’s previous chat with Winfrey, 67, resurfaced, in which the Duchess of York, 61, opened up about marrying into the royal family.
“You didn’t marry the fairy tale, you married a man,” Ferguson said of her marriage to Prince Andrew, which ended in 1996.
“You fell in love and you married the man, and then you have to come to terms with the fairytale. Now it’s not a fairy tale, it’s real life,” Ferguson continued at the time.
Ferguson, who shares daughters Beatrice, 32, and Eugenie, 32, with Andrew, 61, also spoke about life inside Buckingham Palace, as well as the “invasive” British press.
“I must explain that the British press at the moment is completely and utterly cruel and abusive and so invasive,” Ferguson said.