Before they were royals,Sarah Ferguson and Princess Diana shared a close relationship.
“There was nobody like her and there never will be.”
Behind Fergie and Diana’s fast friendship was a lot of common ground.
Besides being 4th cousins, their mothers were best friends at school.
As they entered adulthood, the two women shared a weekly lunch date.
Diana married into the royal family first, and Fergie was a loyal friend.
“And she said, ‘Duh, Fergs!'”
To begin the night, Fergie and Princess Diana dressed up as police officers, complete with dark wigs.
Diana also donned a large pair of glasses.
When they went to a nightclub, the friends were mistaken for actual members of law enforcement.
Outside the club, the costumes weren’t as convincing.
Fergie and Diana were arrested for impersonating police officers and hauled away in a van.
To further conceal their identity, they had turned their engagement rings to hide the stunning stones.
While they were driving to the station, Diana spotted some of the officers’ snacks.
“And the policeman in the front goes, ‘you’re free to’t do that.'”
Eventually, the officers recognized Diana and Fergie and let them go.
“[The palace gate policemen] shut the gates in Andrew’s face as his car approached.
Fearing an ambush, he screeched into reverse,” Bradford told theDaily Mail.
Both women shared a sense of fun.
“She and I, we laughed a lot.
We got into trouble a lot,” Fergie said onThe Kelly Clarkson Show.
The Duchess of York was sometimes portrayed as being a bad influence on Diana.
“We were positioned as saint and sinner,” Fergie toldPeoplein 2021.
Royal biographer Sarah Bradford agrees with this assessment.
However, Diana wasn’t as innocent as some people believed.
Perhaps this motto led to Diana’s reputation for being “the saint.”
