


“When I was little I used to leave notes in her dressing room saying, ‘Mummy, please don’t die in a car crash.“Finally, the biography that Rev. “I never truly understood why my mother left me and it has taken me a long time to deal with my low self-esteem.

“Then my sister left to start her new married life in Australia and I lost them both on the same day. She added about her family breaking up: “When I was 14 my mother eloped to Argentina with a very good-looking polo player. At difficult times I’ve always turned to childhood foods like boiled egg and soldiers, baked potatoes and sausage rolls.” If I refused to eat my semolina mum would hit me and say she needed to beat the devil out of me. We would never dream now of using the language my parents used on us as children. She told the Sunday Times when asked if she was close to her parents: “My mother was a beautiful woman but she was a child herself.

The Duchess of York, 63, added her mother was a “child” who didn’t know “how to be a mummy” as she opened up about her traumatic upbringing, which saw her abandoned aged 13 when her mum Susan Barrantes, went to live in Argentina with her boyfriend, and her dad Ronald became obsessed with polo, while her sister Jane moved to Australia. Sarah Ferguson was branded a “sheep’s a***” by her dad and had “the devil” beaten out of her by her mum. Sarah Ferguson was branded a ‘sheep’s a***’ by her dad and had ‘the devil’ beaten out of her by her mum
