Sarah Ferguson: How Duchess of York was BLACKLISTED from royal weddings for years

SARAH FERGUSON, Duchess of York, has constitute her way back into the Royal Family in recent years - but that wasn't ever the case.

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The Duchess of York was blacklisted from attending imperial weddings for a while, being left off the guestlist for some of the most important unions of recent years. The Duchess even spoke out well-nigh one painful event for her – not being able to attend Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge's hymeneals in 2011. While Sarah is the mother of royal blood princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, she is also Prince Andrew's ex-wife, which means technically she's no longer a fellow member of the family unit.

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    Therefore, there is no protocol dictating she needs to be invited to such events.

    Only the Duchess of York still took it every bit a snub and opened up to Oprah Winfrey about how difficult it was to exist left out of the world-famous matter.

    Sarah said: "I wanted to be in that location with my girls… to be getting them dressed and to go every bit a family.

    "Too, information technology was so difficult, because the last bride upward that aisle [at Westminster Abbey] was me."

    The Duchess added it was actually her ex who tried to cheer her up, reportedly telling her: "It's OK. Just retrieve nosotros had such a proficient day. Our wedding was so perfect."

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    Sarah Ferguson: How Duchess of York was BLACKLISTED from royal weddings for years

    Sarah Ferguson: How Duchess of York was BLACKLISTED from royal weddings for years (Paradigm: Getty)

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    Sarah Ferguson: Sarah and Andrew are divorced, and then she's no longer a member of the family (Image: Getty)

    The Duchess said Prince Andrew "made me feel function of the mean solar day on April 29."

    If y'all thought the Knuckles and Duchess of Cambridge is the only wedding Sarah wasn't immune at, think once more.

    The Duchess was blacklisted from the weddings of Princess Anne'due south children as well.

    The Princess Royal'southward son, Peter Philips, married Autumn Kelly on May 17, 2008, and the Duchess wasn't on the invitee list.

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    Sarah Ferguson: Sarah was banned from attention Kate and William's big day in 2011 (Image: Getty)

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    Sarah Ferguson: Sarah has long been a controversial member of the purple family (Image: Getty)

    The same was truthful for when Princess Anne's daughter, Zara, married rugby star Mike Tindall on July xxx, 2011.

    The reason for the Duchess's not-invite is understood to be because Prince Philip isn't her biggest fan, and neither is Princess Anne.

    According to regal biographer Allan Starkie, when Sarah joined the family in 1986, the Duke of Edinburgh reportedly told her: "Now you're a member of the firm y'all can do anything you want, but you lot'll e'er exist constitute out."

    And indeed, she was found out when details and photographs of her private life made front-folio news in 1992, leading to her divorce from the Duke of York.

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    Sarah Ferguson: Prince Philip is reportedly not a fan of the Duchess of York (Paradigm: Getty)

    Sarah was in attendance at Princess Beatrice'due south nuptials this summer, of course, as she's her mother, where 97-yr-quondam Prince Philip consented to exist photographed aslope the Duchess.

    A source at the time said: "Prince Philip has agreed to pose in the wedding snaps alongside Eugenie'due south mother, Sarah, Duchess of York.

    "It will be the first fourth dimension that the pair take been pictured together in 26 years."

    In 2018, things changed for the Duchess when she was invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle'due south wedding.

    Sarah said she was "honoured" and "grateful" to score an event to the wedding of the yr and run across the happy couple say 'I practise'.

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    But while the Duchess was asked to the wedding ceremony, the invitation merely stretched to the ceremony, not the private reception later in the evening thrown by Prince Charles.

    The Prince of Wales did, nonetheless, invite his brother as well as their daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.

    While speculation inevitably arose that Prince Philip was behind the decision, a source told the Daily Mail the choice to go out out the Duchess was purely Prince Charles' choice.

    The source said: "She is not a member of the Majestic Family unit any more and Prince Charles simply does not have time for her.

    "He simply tin't run into why she is even so such a big function of his brother's life."