
“I wouldn't do anything unless the boss gave me her blessing though, and still to this day, I think about that.” The Duchess went on to call herself “the luckiest person alive.no question” that she had the opportunity to know the late queen and have her in her life.


“It's been all my life that I've known the boss and there's no one like her,” Ferguson told the festival crowd. The former wife of Prince Andrew explained that she had given Queen Elizabeth copies of her 2021 novel, Her Heart for a Compass, in both English and French. Ferguson told the audience that her late mother-in-law was a “wonderful friend” and “the finest ever icon,” calling her “legendary” and “incredible” before adding that the two corgis she inherited from her after her death last month are well-trained “national treasures.” During that conversation, she revealed that she embarked on this journey to become an author with the queen's full blessing, per The Telegraph.

The Duchess of York attended the Henley Literary Festival in Henley-on-Thames in the United Kingdom this week, during which she was interviewed about her newfound passion for the written word. Sarah Ferguson says that not only did Queen Elizabeth approve of her career as a historical romance author, but the late monarch even provided some of the inspiration behind her fictional characters.
