Sarah Ferguson reunites with Prince Andrew at Royal Ascot – and shares royal secret
<p>Sarah Ferguson has added a colourful flair to royal life – from her outfit choices to her relationship rollercoaster with Prince Andrew, 59.</p>
<p>It would be easy to assume the royal could tell a few juicy stories about her life as a member of one of the world’s most well-known and documented families.</p>
<p>However, one secret the Duchess of York is ready to tell has little to do with her and instead is an in-depth look into one of the royal family’s most heart-wrenching tragedies.</p>
<p>Almost two centuries since the death of the Queen’s great-great-great grandmother Princess Louise – mother to Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert – a history of the royal’s sad and troubled life has been documented by Fergie.</p>
<p>The Princess was separated from her two young sons and banished to a German hamlet where she would never be allowed to see her children again.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Princess Louise</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In an exclusive interview with <em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2019062374448/sarah-ferguson-exclusive-interview-hello-documentary/" target="_blank">Hello</a>!</em>, Sarah revealed she has made a documentary in Germany with the aim of uncovering Princess Louise’s footsteps through historical archives, and a visit to her tomb.</p>
<p>"She was discarded by her husband – Ernst I, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – and sent to St Wendel," Sarah said.</p>
<p>"Whatever she had done to upset Ernst – who it seems was tired and bored of her and wanted to divorce – to have to leave her two boys and never see them again was, for me, beyond words.</p>
<p>"I wanted to know what Louise had done so terribly wrong that she should be taken from her children on that dank, rainy 26 August day – Albert's fifth birthday – put in a carriage, discarded and written out of history."</p>
<p>During filming, the 59-year-old was hit with emotions, as her own mother, Susan Barrantes, left her family when she was just a young girl.</p>
<p>"I just don't know what it would be like for me to not be with my girls. I really couldn't fathom it," the Duchess said, who is mother to Princess Beatrice, 30, and Princess Eugenie, 29.</p>
<p>"One of the best things I've done with my life is that my daughters and I are like a tripod. The girls are very supportive of me and I am very supportive of what they do.</p>
<p>"The key is to always be there, but never to wrap them in cotton wool. We work in unity and [ex-husband Prince] Andrew and I are focused on being good parents together.</p>
<p>“We are bigger than friends. We learn from each other, support each other and understand it's about communication, compromise and compassion."</p>
