Princess Diana had six words to describe Princess Beatrice as a baby in a letter to her former housekeeper. What the late royal said about her now-35-year-old niece, ahead. Plus, how Diana once banned her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry , from seeing their cousins.
Beatrice is the oldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson First up, who is Beatrice? She’s the oldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the Duke and Duchess of York. Beatrice was born on Aug. 8, 1988.
Her parents, who divorced in 1996 after 10 years of marriage but have remained close, announced her arrival through a Buckingham Palace decree. Today, she’s no. 9 in the royal family’s line of succession.
Similar to Diana before her, Ferguson gave birth in a hospital before introducing newborn Beatrice to the public and making their way home. Beatrice was born at Portland Hospital, the same place where her younger sister, Princess Eugenie , 34, was born in 1990, and where Meghan Markle gave birth to her and the Duke of Sussex’s son, 5-year-old Prince Archie, in 2019. Diana’s comments about baby Beatrice to former housekeeper Diana wrote about baby Beatrice in a letter to former Spencer family housekeeper Maud Pendrey, auctioned off as a part of a collection by Julien’s Auctions .
So, what did Diana say about her niece? “The family seems to be constantly expanding, and Sarah’s baby is very sweet with extremely long fingers.” Indeed, the royal family did expand quite a lot i.