You gotta love Fergie. No, not the “Dutchess” who performs as Fergie on a solo basis and in the band Black Eyed Peas, though she’s really great too, but Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York who was married to Britain’s Prince Andrew, the sea-faring chap.

In a new TV interview airing tonight in the U.K., Fergie blames the royal family for her split with Andrew. She says that Andrew shipped out with the Royal Navy just days after their wedding in 1986—and stayed there for five years. She assumed she’d go live with him at the naval port but that didn’t happen. Fergie says she lost the only source of support she had with Andrew being absent.

She tells the interviewer: "I fulfilled every girl's dream, getting married in a glass coach with six white horses. …But two weeks after we got married, they said, 'No you can go to Buckingham Palace and Andrew you go to sea for the next five years.'”

The couple, who have two daughters, split in 1992 and divorced four years later.

Fergie also said she suffered from being compared to Diana, Princess of Wales. “Instead of being myself I tried too hard to compare myself with Diana. "The more I tried, the worse it got.”

Sarah sure seems to have recovered her dignity and strength of character. She’s been a TV interviewer/host, aggressive fundraiser for various charities and causes, is a single mother to two young adult daughters, an author and a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.

Go Fergie go!

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