{"id":1947005,"date":"2025-08-07T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1947005"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:35:44","slug":"sarah-ferguson-jealous-of-princess-diana-jfk-jr-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sarah-ferguson-jealous-of-princess-diana-jfk-jr-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Ferguson Jealous of Princess Diana & JFK Jr Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These days, the stories we hear about the royal family involve King Charles<\/a>\u2019 feud with his youngest son, Prince Harry, or the state of Prince William and Kate Middleton\u2019s marriage. But decades ago, Princess Diana<\/a> and Sarah Ferguson<\/a>, then the Duchess of York, were the center of conversations for their marriages to then Prince Charles and Prince Andrew<\/a>, respectively, and also because of the relationship between them.<\/p>\n

Now Andrew Lownie\u2019s new book,\u00a0Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York<\/a><\/em>, details, which serves a biography for both Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson<\/a>, details how Fergie was \u201cfurious\u201d after Princess Diana<\/a>\u2019s meeting with Jon F. Kennedy Jr<\/a>. The meeting was concocted by JFR Jr. as part of an elaborate plan to convince Diana to be part of his George magazine.<\/p>\n

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Related:\u00a0<\/strong>Here\u2019s what each royal inherited from Queen Elizabeth<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to draw all these cover ideas up, and he took the drawings over to the Carlyle Hotel [in New York City] to meet her,\u201d\u00a0George<\/em>\u00a0magazine creative director Matt Berman told\u00a0People<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Diana reportedly rejected the offer to appear in the magazine and wrote JFK Jr. a note that said, \u201cThank you so much, but not right now.\u201d Princess Diana died in 1997 after a collision in Paris. JFK Jr., meanwhile, passed away in 1999 due to a plane crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t see him as the rest of the world saw him,\u201d Diana\u2019s private secretary, Patrick Jephson, said in the book JFK JR: An Intimate Oral Biography. \u201cAs this big, famous, handsome guy. She saw him, I think, as rather vulnerable because he had grown up in public.\u201d However, Sarah Ferguson, who was then Diana\u2019s sister on law, \u201chad the hots for him and Diana wanted to, I think, do one up on her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was never made public, so that made it quite fun, actually. Diana wanted it to be discreet because it had all the makings of a great gossip story, didn\u2019t it? The world\u2019s most eligible bachelor wasn\u2019t he at the time? And she had just gotten unmarried or was in the process of getting unmarried. It would\u2019ve been a rather intriguing thing to dream about. She didn\u2019t want that, but she was curious to meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lownie\u2019s book goes deeper into Sarah Ferguson\u2019s \u201ccrush.\u201d Reportedly, she once arranged a meeting with JFK Jr., and though he at first accepted, he later cancelled because his girlfriend at the time, Daryl Hannah, wasn\u2019t pleased.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018That\u2019s not going to bother me!\u2019 \u201d Lownie quotes Fergie saying, \u201cBut it bothered Hannah, and Kennedy cancelled, claiming a prior engagement. Staff were then ordered to spy on his apartment all night to check that he had told the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the book, that wasn\u2019t the end of it. \u201cThe duchess was not to be discouraged, especially after learning that Princess Diana had met Kennedy for 30 minutes at Christmas 1995 at a New York hotel. She was furious: \u2018He\u2019s mine! Why can\u2019t she just leave him alone?’\u201d the author writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Duchess of York reportedly nicknamed JFK. Jr. \u201cNumber Nine,\u201d which was meant to indicate \u201chis place in the order of her lovers.\u201d The author even says she spent hours searching for articles about JFK Jr., cutting out photos of him in a swimsuit, and that she would even have conversations with her friends about what part of her personality he would like.<\/p>\n

\u201cA close con\ufb01dante revealed: \u2018She\u2019ll suddenly ask, \u201cDo you think Ken will mind that I don\u2019t like such and such a thing?\u201d It\u2019s incredibly real to her, like a schoolgirl crush. She spends hours talking about him. The fact that she\u2019s never even met him doesn\u2019t seem to matter at all,’\u201d Lownie wrote.<\/p>\n

The book lists some of Sarah Ferguson\u2019s other crushes, including Kevin Costner, Tiger Woods, and George Clooney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n