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Sarah Ferguson has showered her daughter Princess Beatrice with praise for wearing her tiara to Crown Prince Al Hussein and Princess Rajwa Al Saif’s royal wedding in Jordan earlier this month.
The Duchess of York, 63, shared her thoughts in a recent episode of her lifestyle podcast Tea Talks With Sarah.
The author shared a snippet of the pod on her Instagram page, where she and co-host Sarah Thomson discussed Beatrice’s attendance at the royal wedding on June 1.
The duchess was first seen in the exact same tiara on her wedding day in 1986, and the stunning jewel hasn’t been seen in public since then.
Fergie remarked how ‘proud’ she was of her daughter for making the choice and added that she looked ‘incredible’ in the tiara.
Sarah Ferguson, 63, has showered praises on her daughter Princess Beatrice (pictured), 34, for wearing her tiara to Crown Prince Al Hussein and Princess Rajwa Al Saif’s royal wedding on June 1
The Duchess of York (pictured) shared her thoughts on the sweet nod while discussing the famous Jordanian wedding on her Tea Talks with Sarah podcast
She said to her co-host: ‘I think you saw that Beatrice and Edo went to Jordan for the wedding.
‘I did and I was going to ask you about that because there was so much about the tiara’ replied Sarah.
The Duchess responded: I know you like those sparkly things to which her co-host marvelled at how ‘incredible’ and ‘beautiful’ the princess looked.
The duchess continued: ‘I think the first hairdresser she went to, I think the hairdresser put the tiara on thinking she’d watched too much Disney.
‘It was right at the front. It was a lovely hairdresser in Jordan. Very nice I’m sure but I think they had been studying Disney princesses.
The duchess then added that a resilient Beatrice opted to place the tiara herself, and the results were ‘incredible’.
‘I was very, very proud of her’ added the royal.
Princess Beatrice, 34, attended the Jordanian prince and his wife Rajwa’s wedding in Amman with her husband Edo Mapelli Mozzi and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Princess Beatrice attended the Jordanian prince and his wife Rajwa’s wedding in Amman with her husband Edo Mapelli Mozzi
The tiara was purchased from London-based jewellery Garrard for Sarah Ferguson to mark her wedding to Prince Andrew in July 1986
The duchess co-hosts her lifestyle podcast with Sarah Thomson, and in a recent snippet posted to Instagram, she remarked how ‘proud’ she was of her daughter for wearing her tiara
For the evening state banquet hosted by Jordan’s royal family, the mother-of one opted for a pale pink embellished satin piqué gown with ruffled sleeves and wore her strawberry blonde locks down, with the York tiara.
The choice of tiara was particularly significant, as it was gifted to her mother Sarah Ferguson for her wedding day to Prince Andrew on 23 July 1986, and has not been worn in public for 20 years.
The accessory was made even more special by the fact that Princess Beatrice rarely wears tiaras, having only donned one before, for her wedding in July 2020.
Beatrice wore a baby blue sparkling dress and a hair bow for the earlier wedding ceremony, but switched up her look for the evening reception at Al Husseiniya Palace.
She donned the resplendent pink gown from designer Reem Acra and added a touch of glamour with a diamond scroll tiara.
Up until Beatrice’s surprise appearance in Jordan yesterday, the tiara had only been worn by her mother.
The York tiara, which is made of platinum and diamonds with a leaf detail, is a rare breed, as it was brand new when Fergie debuted it on her wedding day at Westminster Abbey.
It was purchased for her from London-based jeweller Garrard by her in-laws, the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
The beautiful head piece remained the Duchess of York’s property even after her split from Prince Andrew in 1992, and she wore it on several occasions following her divorce.
However she eventually stopped wearing to public engagements, with one of its last appearances being the White Ball, where Fergie wore it with a flattering black gown in 2001.
Tiaras are only worn by members of the royal family at official engagements such as state banquets, the annual Diplomatic Corps reception, and the State Opening of Parliament, which would not ever be attended by Beatrice, as she is not a working royal.
