Sarah Ferguson: A Contemporary Woman | The Fergie Story | Timeline 

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An interesting documentary. I didn't know any of this about Fergie, it's nice to see positive portrayal of her. There's always two sides to every story.

It was very unfair for the media to compare Sarah 's figure to Diana's especially when at the time Diana had her problem with bulemia.

I don't know why the media keeps insisting on referring to Princess Diana as a commoner like she was some grocery clerk at a supermarket. She was a daughter of an Earl and thus a Lady in title.

The press decided that there could only be one "Princess" - and they plumped for Diana and started to attack Sarah. There is some evidence that Diana became jealous of her - it is clear Diana told the press where to find Sarah when she had her weekend away that got her blown apart. Always liked her open, honest manner.

That gossip woman in green totally copped Diana's style and mannerisms!

Carolyn Cotterell was the blonde haired lady-in waiting that Sarah had early on in her marriage. Carolyn died aged 43 and was an enormous loss to Sarah - who lost so many friends and family at that time. Diana, her mother , father also a dear friend with motor neurone. She must have felt so lost during these years.

I loved Sarah when I was growing up; she was a refreshing and alternative example to the simpering character expected of women, she struck an appropriate balance of femininity and independent strength, Today, of course we can be both! I never knew a lot about her, as highlighted in this film... I now admire her more. She certainly does have a kind heart and I hope that she has survived the awful experiences of the press and is living well.

Isn’t it crazy how 3/4 of the queen’s children’s marriages failed? They get paraded in front of our faces 24/7 as being perfect yet they have regular people problems just like us?

More reasons why I can't stand the media! What a bunch of snobs!

Very sad because public comparison between Diana n Sarah especially fashion is concerned which is very unfair. She also done her part very well.

I always loved Fergie. She is so genuine and down to earth, kind, fun, intelligent and compassionate!

The press are so horrid. They are never happier than when tearing someone down. Do they even know what 'supporting someone' is like

I loved how she wanted to pick up that ladybird🤣 like something I would do, I always liked her, she was herself🤗

Poor girl. She needed someone in her life to advise and confide in - like Diana had Paul Burrell.

Imagine spending your life being under the microscope of the most shallow, vapid people in the world. There’s no way I’d have that life.

Fergie was so unfairly treated. And, so was Diana.

She has never been a "Girly Girl".

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Thanks for all you do Fergie. You do lots of good work. 🤗

Shame on the press. Sarah was/is a good person! I hope she has found happiness and peace now.

I love her no matter of what goofy peoples are saying or writing. Go girl, go 👏👏👏🌹

I miss seeing her in the news and really liked her! I'm sorry, Fergie dressed beautifully, and fun....People are always so mean to "Natural Red Heads!" they're just jealous!

Princess Sarah is a very wonderful, kind, generous and giving lady.

I would watch this for the fashion alone. What were they thinking ?

The spouses of British royalty just can't win.

Andrew was away at sea.really.was "away at sea" a codename for something else ..you know with what we all know now.

I must be crazy but I remember the press praised her for sticking up for her dad.

Excellant....I have always beeen sorry for her. They can't have a normal relationship. They are thinking only of themselves.

do know what they see and say about you know your own mind don't look to the left don't look to the right don't look behind you look straight ahead at the light in front of you do all through GOD love yourself - like yourself because GOD does do good - be good - do good for the sake of doing good

If only the past can see the future !!

They have to “keep the show going”, the pomp and circumstance while the tax payers pay and pay and pay! The Queen has over 300 houses/castles!

What a gorgeous head of natural red hair! Meghan M has more in common with Fergie than Diana.

Shes a great person

She could not have been nicer or more charming to me when she picked me out, unsolicited, at a line-out at an event. She seemed determined to be nice to someone she rightly guessed felt side-lined.

Let's set this straight right now......29:21,"She was so different from the Princess of Wales"...well Princess Anne was different from Diana wasn't she? Did you forget that?? Simply put, the press could bully Diana but could not bully Fergie nor Anne and that's where the problem lies. Weak people don't like strong willed women who have their own character and can hand a joke or off hand comment or two back at you. They simply want women who will be quiet and take the bullying. Women who appear to show weakness or like they will cry with just the right amount of bullying is the type of woman they want! Good on Duchess Fergie, Princess Anne and Duchess Meghan!

“He appears to bark quite a lot as his father does” 😂😂😂

The fact that Andrew ordered Fergie the baby for six weeks displays how controlling and disociated he is. A well groomed sociopath.

She's admirable in that she didn't compromise her personality and identity for some marriage to a Royal.

Marrying commoners doesn't seem to be working out for them (those princes and princesses of the blood). Starts cracking up! These commentators are out of touch! Furthermore, while the UK royal family is constantly getting divorces, most of the European royal families are STILL married! It says a lot about how God awful the spouses in the Windsor family are treated! For the record, Mette-Merit was a party girl! Letizia was a reporter who like Meghan was divorced. Crown Princess Victoria married her fitness instructor. Prince Albert of Monaco married a swimmer! In the last 30 years, no royal prince or princess has really married a person on "his or her level"! Let's face it: marrying your cousin is a tabu! The reason everyone is marrying outside their "social spheres" is because the UK and Spain thought it a good idea to be related to all the royal families in Europe! It'll take another three generations and marrying outside one's rank before the royal families can again marry from the same social cast! Let's call this for what it is: the Windsors and the press are nasty lot of people who didn't support the spouses who came into the family! Only Edward's Sophie has been able to get on with little issues! That's because the press were to busy dogging family members to actually care about what Edward did!

Thank you for this .i had no idea she was so lively and interesting. Cool woman the Fergie

She did nothing with that charity ; I've never heard of that disease until now

She let herself be overexposed when she could not walk elegantly at all. She made herself an object of ridicule. She did not try to stop it at all, at any point.

Making it about magan and Fergie takes eyes off Andrew

Or not. I think leaving the royal family was the wisest and best decision of Sarah Ferguson's life, and after a rough period, she's done well.

Everyone in this documentary should be put against the wall -

I loved this documentary well composed and structured

I liked Sarah! She's my age and she earned her way to be a royal. But, I don't ever see the royals living like anyone else. Is it fair? I'm glad I don't put money in their pockets. I'd hate them for it.

I don’t like how Judy spoke of princess diana in princess dianas documentary it was so filled with jealousy

Princess Beatrice was born Aug. 8, 1988 and christened on Dec. 20, 1988. Beatrice was 4½ months at her christening - not six weeks.

The Queen is above it all. And rightly so. She has been a great Queen. Fergie is not the problem and never has been.

Awww both Andrew and Sarah Ferguson is beautiful wedding both happy . That happen , don't duty divorce. Beautiful family both Andrew and Sarah, Eugene, Bec. Love sweet .

"Her need for company while her husband was away"....is that how they describe adultery now?

I love Fergie!

26:40 26:52 Her walk reminds me of Kaitlyn Jenner. 🙄Look at that side to side sway!!!😂

49:40 Do you mind?!? Arms waving about to move 😂😂😂 I love it. ER long may she reign.

Imagine having every single little thing you do and say being publicised and criticised to the smallest degree, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

CORRECTION HERE: Diana was NOT a commoner. She was Lady Spencer from One of the oldest aristocratic families in England.

I have always felt sorry for Diana and Fergie. The news media was brutal to both these ladies. Neither has a happy ending. :(

The British media is absolutely ruthless and I don’t know why they tear the royal women apart.

Thank God Andrew will never be King! He’s so out of touch with humanity, lacks empathy, etc.

Fergie has always been my favourite. How sad that she had to put up with so much nonsense. I hope her life is happier now.

I feel that this documentary showed Sarah as she really is: warm, spontaneous and generous

Here in the U.S.A., we liked Fergie. The bad press she was given appeared at the time to be very unfair, the British snobs eating one of their own. I remember hearing the bad press as it occurred, and it was over the top, the way they criticized her. They picked her apart.

Princess Sarah is a free spirit trying her best at her obligations. What a shame the Royal Family did not see how beautiful and loved she really is! Their soul crushing demands and catering to the press harmed both her and Princess Diana. With all their wealth and background they should snub the press and carry on like real people; but of course these admonishments went to the Queens daughter in laws and not to her wayward sons!

Fergie was too old for Andy. She wasn't 14.

I think it was vicious to attack the Duchess for her weight, really vicious.

What kind of monster asks you to leave your weeks old baby for WEEKS. That's insanity.

Poor Fergie..the press needed a villian to bash.

She’s so beautiful physically and seems very sincere! How can the press be so cruel!

I always liked Fergie..she was real and very honest. I suppose that doesn't serve the royals as well as regal and distant.

I'm proud to be a 'commoner' 😍😂

She was lucky to have gotten out of that weird family.

Such a dear person with a heart of gold...regardless of what the press said about her.. I always loved her... she's a real person not a fake.

How rude. She looked beautiful pregnant!

People should have been welcoming of the fact that a normal and genuine woman had married into the family.

The problem seemed to be that she was normal, average and relaxed

I think it was cruel for the RF to keep the young couple apart for months on end while PA served in the royal navy. Fergie should have been allowed to accompany her husband. What relationship would work when you see your partner for less than 4 months a year?

Could we put like 27 more freaking ads in this video? I mean I’m not quite annoyed enough!

Fergie was always ridiculed by the British press.She was right all along about her husband messing about with young girls.What goes round comes round.Good on you Fergie.

not really a huge movie star or royal follower, but i loved Sarah Ferguson. Such a breathe of fresh air. I wish her well.

She never stood a chance - the press can only have one favourite, and that was Diana

Sarah did her best, unfortunately she did not have a chance to be herself, to be respected but she was bullied not respected for her by the media. Each woman in the Royal Family needs to have respect and treated respectfully.

I think Sarah Ferguson is a normal, down to earth lady who found it difficult to adjust to the world of the Royal Family

I love how people always blame a woman for a divorce, while it's always a woman who desperately tries to save the marriage.

Showing his true colours, Andrew

The green lady says Andrew has guts. Yeah with a teenage girl

Oh come on!! Her downfall was eNTIRELY her fault. Especially her sexual antics..in FRONT of her children. Her money hungry self also ruined her..so did her dishonesty. Pathetic

I will always love Fergie no matter what others say or think. She is a very talented smart lady with a heart of gold.💖🌻🌸

This should be a crime, ridiculing a pregnant lady. She seems nice for all I know. Genuine.

I think Fergie is very pretty. I've said that elsewhere, but it's a different beauty to Diana's and this is ok. I personally don't think it was good or fair to compare them. But the press was merciless and this commentator is a bit harsh sometimes. For instance, comments on her dress sense - Well for goodness sake, the 80s and 90s style wasn't always flattering to people's shapes. She s a bit more 'real' and down to earth and I prefer people like that.

10.19 'he (Paddy McNally) would always tease her ' mainly about her appearance, 'she loved him very much actually'...... 10.39 'he was a sort of rock for her although he undermined her confidence tremendously'...... What sort of a rock undermines confidence? he was no rock. 'he knocked her confidence but he was there for her' .that's a contradiction in terms..................BALDERDASH. If you knock somebody's confidence you are out to get them, no question. Oh Yeah, he was there (where is there?) if someone knocks your confidence they are anything but 'there' for you. Who is this woman speaking out of both sides of her mouth at the same time????

Wonderful Lady who has helped to raise 10s of millions of pounds for many charities, that alone is life commendable and she is still doing it raising more and more money and raising awareness in many important fields.

neither Sarah nor Diana had anyone take them under their wing and bring them along in educating them for life in the royal family. And when they got into trouble, they were thrown to the wolves. I'm glad that Sarah lives under the same roof as Andrew -and I think it is possible someday for it to be more.

26:08 Weren't you the journalist who gave her the name "Duchess of Pork???

It failed bc Andrew wasn't there and men targeted her vulnerability to wanting to be loved, physically.....

It is a very "primitive" establishment ---the idea of "royalty ! When will enough be enough ?

"Both outdoor, horsey...doggy type people" spot on observation about the Queeg and Ferg.

Whatever mistakes the Duchess of York has made, are minor compared to those of the Duke of York. In the light of the scandal involving his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Ferguson’s behavior seems impeccable by comparison, even including the toe sucking incident.

The press picked her apart viciously over things that didn't amount to much, until the toe sucking incident! And I won't be surprised when they do the same to Prince Harry's wife!