Who Was Princess Diana Friends With?
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Although the two royal women were initially pitted against each other in the media, much as their contemporary counterparts Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle have been, they actually became quite good friends. Diana even was on hand to help Sarah adjust to royal life. In her autobiography, My Story: Sarah the Duchess of York, Sarah recalled how Diana took her under her wing, returning the favour from years earlier when Sarah had advised her as young women.
"I looked over at my friend in befuddlement. 'Just keep smiling,' Diana whispered. And I did, as I would for long years to come. I always felt safe in mimicking Diana."
Especially after they both divorced their royal husbands, they had a lot in common that only the other could understand. Sarah also wrote about this era in her memoir:
"It was the year we first put words to the unspeakable idea that had been nudging us in the ribs for some time: that one or both of us might leave the royal family . . . We burned the phone wires into the night, trading secrets and jokes that no-one else would understand."
Although her autobiography included many of these fond memories of Diana, it also included some less flattering recollections, which caused the two women to stop speaking for a year; they never reconciled.