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In interview Duchess suggested that there was no one to blame but herself for her lack of an invite
The Duchess of York said that although she found it difficult to cope with not being invited to the royal wedding she isn't bitter about being snubbed and takes solace in the fact that Prince William's mother was also absent.
"I really love the feeling that sort of Diana and I both weren't there," said Sarah Ferguson in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey, during which Prince Andrew's former wife suggested that there was no one to blame but herself for her lack of an invite.
"I felt that I ostracised myself by my behaviour, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking why did I make such a mistake," said the duchess, who was filmed offering an undercover reporter access to her former husband for £500,000 last year.
In the interview, to be broadcast in the US today, she said that it was "so difficult" for her to cope with not being invited that she spent 29 April in Thailand.
She said the Duke of York, who accompanied their daughters, Beatrice, 22, and Eugenie, 21, to Westminster Abbey, made her feel part of the occasion by talking "all morning" to her on the telephone.
Asked how hurt she felt by the snub, the 51-year-old former royal replied: "It was so difficult. Because I wanted to be there with my girls … and to be getting them dressed and to go as a family. And it was also hard because the last bride up that aisle was me."
Of her former husband, she said: "He was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect'. Because we're such a unit together.He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th."
"I think what I felt was that I went through the phase of feeling so totally worthless and that [it] was quite right they didn't invite me," added the duchess, who is to have a show on Winfrey's new cable station, when asked if she felt rejected.
The duchess said she believed Prince William's mother would have been "so proud of her son", and added: "But I'm here to say how proud she would have been and Kate looked utterly beautiful."
Promotional clips on the Oprah Winfrey website claim that in the interview, filmed in Chicago, the duchess's daughters will "break their silence". Winfrey also asks about her close relationship with her former husband, saying: "Why don't you get married again?"
