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Beatrice of York turns 32: the bond with the Queen and the rivalry with Kate Middleton
Sarah Ferguson, a life in the spotlight, an existence dedicated to daughters Beatrice and Eugenia – beloved – but above all a woman who, from the tabloids, has suffered from it, and since the first day she joined the most powerful Royal Family in the world. It was back in 1985 when Sarah was first mentioned in the press: she was only 26 years old, a pleased smile, red hair like fire, eyes that looked to the future in a dreamy way. And how could it not be otherwise? She would marry Prince Andrew, the third child of the Queen Elizabeth and of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
But Sarah’s happy days were undermined by the press. In a long interview with People, Ferguson found the courage to open up, to hold her heart in her hand, as they say: to lay bare the soul. The Duchess of York had to deal with – and well before Meghan Markle – merciless titles, inappropriate nicknames and above all the eternal comparison with Lady Diana, which the press praised. We could define it as a real media bullying, which in part has bent his sanity.
In the novel Her Heart for a Compass, the Duchess of York – courtesy title given when she married Prince Andrew – has finally chosen to speak, not to hide anymore. And even before doing it publicly, she asked for the help of her beautiful daughters, Beatrice and Eugenia. “It took a long time before I realized they were just newspapers. I believed every word on the front pages: it was a shame “. He admitted that he had to deal with his sensitivity – as if being sensitive were a problem, in a world that, by now, no longer has problems overdoing it.
Sarah is fine today. He had to fight the tabloids, but above all against herself and even against Diana’s shadow, although they were great friends. Defined as “the most charming wife of the Windsors“, For Sarah there were only words that did not honor or do justice to the great personality who instead was at the time of her wedding with Andrea (and who is still today, thanks to her support for charity, which she has never drawn back).
Among the most beautiful aspects of his interview, the memory of Diana: the recognition that both were ill in that environment, held in that grip of lights and spotlights, of pedestals and stairs to climb. “We offered each other our support“. And we don’t struggle to imagine a Lady Diana holding out her hand to Sarah, united in memory today, but even more so in their fight against tabloids around the world. Against the fury of the paparazzi, for that unhappiness that too often we have glimpsed on their face.
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