Prince Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, has been remarkably open about the pair’s decade-long marriage (of which they spent the last four years separated). In a 2007 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she revealed that Andrew was deployed on military service only two weeks after their wedding and that she spent nearly the entirety of her pregnancy with the pair’s first daughter by herself.
Things didn’t improve after Princess Beatrice was born. In fact, Fergie added that her husband only received 10 days of leave following the birth and then he was right back out at sea. In response, she claimed that the team at Buckingham Palace essentially told her to deal with it. She shared, “When he left and I cried, they all said: ‘Grow up and get a grip.'”
Beatrice was born only two years after her parents got married in 1986, which likely made her mother’s isolation feel even more intense. Though Andrew wasn’t able to be part of Beatrice’s development during Fergie’s pregnancy, by all indications, he’s very close to his daughter now.
