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Sarah Ferguson kept track of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding while in Thailand.Sarah Ferguson was hardly a party pooper when it came to last month's royal wedding. She just wasn't invited.
The Duchess of York, who was wed to Prince Charles' brother Prince Andrew until 1996, watched Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on television in the resort of Camelia, in the southeast Asian country, but secretly wished she was there in person.
"I was not invited," Fergie, 51, said in an interview airing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Wednesday. "I went through the phase of feeling so totally worthless."
Being left off the lengthy guest list was "so difficult," Ferguson explained, because she hoped to accompany her daughters, Beatrice, 22, and Eugenie, 21, to the Westminster Abbey ceremony.
"I wanted to be there with my girls," she said. "To be getting them dressed and to go as a family."
"Also, it was so hard, because the last bride up that aisle was me," she added, referring to her 1986 royal wedding to Andrew.
Prince Andrew, thankfully, kept her in the loop throughout the day while she stayed secluded thousands of miles away.
"When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect,'" Ferguson recounted.
"Because we're such a unit together," she explained. "He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29."
Wednesday's episode of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' previews the new OWN series 'Finding Sarah.' (AP Photo/Harpo)
Her thoughts also turned to Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997.
"I really love the feeling that sort of Diana and I both weren't there," she explained. "But I'm here to say how proud she would have been and Kate looked utterly beautiful.
"I think Diana would be so proud of her son. Both of them, you know? They did a great job."
Though Ferguson missed out on the royal event, she realized it was "quite right they didn't invite me."
"Why would they?" she asked. "Why would they invite me?"
Ferguson hasn't exactly lived up to the monarch's high standards. Last May, she was caught on video offering an undercover reporter access to her royal ex-husband in exchange for $724,000.
Most recently, in March, she apologized for taking a loan of nearly $25,000 from Jeffrey Epstein, a U.S. businessman who is a convicted sex offender and pedophile.
Ferguson admitted to Winfrey that she knew she "ostracized" herself by her "behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes."
She said it got to the point where she would "beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?"
She explores that question further in the six-part documentary series "Finding Sarah," which premieres on Winfrey's OWN network next month.
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