Sarah Ferguson has revealed that she and Princess Diana were nearly arrested for impersonating policewomen on her hen night. The Duchess of York , now 64, made the revelations on podcast where she said she “loved” the late princess. “I called her Dutch,” she said on Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast.
“We had a great time together.” She then shared a hilarious story about her hen night ahead of her 1986 wedding to Prince Andrew . “On my hen night we did dress up as policewomen and we were arrested by Parks Police,” she laughed.
“We were put in the back of a Parks Police van and Diana then leant and ate his smoky bacon crisps.” She clarified that the crisps belonged to the man who was driving the police van, having previously told Kelly Clarkson that the pair were arrested after visiting a nightclub in full policewomen uniforms. In the UK, it is illegal to impersonate a police officer, with the Crown Prosecution Service reporting that it carries a maximum penalty of six months’ imprisonment “and/or a fine to the statutory maximum.
” The Duchess added: “We got off eventually, but I was hauled in front of the boss [the Queen] the next day with her. But luckily HM [her Majesty] did laugh.” Fergie added that the pair’s outfits were mistaken for being police officers by the staff in the club they visited.
“Princess Diana’s costume was very good,” she admitted. “We sat down and the waiter came up to us and said, ‘Excuse me, this is.
