Fergie into a box, or Sarah or the Duchess into a box, saying ‘look at her, why she is doing this, why is she doing that?’ The 61-year-old said the Covid-19 pandemic gave her the opportunity to write the book, which she claims to have been thinking about for more than 15 years.
She commented that “The pandemic also tapped me on the shoulder and said are you going to waste your life and never do what you want to do? Are you going to be in the front line helping people, nurses, and NHS workers? I believe Lady Margaret would have done that, she would have risen to the challenge. I wondered whether it’s time to give me my own voice, and I wonder if Lady Margaret is helping me do that. I think she is.”
The Duchess spoke about the parallels between her red-headed heroine and her own life, including how they both find freedom in America.
“I believe that any good storyteller includes journeys that parallel their own life,” she said. “It’s really a total work of fiction. On the other hand, it’s rather like Who Do You Think You Are? the TV show. Telling my ancestry of my grandmothers, my maternal and paternal grandparents.”
Sarah has dedicated her debut novel, which was released earlier on in the week, to “my beautiful girls, who have all the strength and courage of Lady Margaret, and so much more, and who have not waited until they are 61 years old to follow their hearts and to live life on their own terms”.
The Duchess is the mother of Princess Beatrice, who is expecting her first child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, and Princess Eugenie, who welcomed her son August with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, in February.
