Fergie: Missing Royal Wedding Was Difficult

The Duchess Of York, Sarah Ferguson, has told US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey it was "so difficult" not being invited to the Royal Wedding.

In an interview, filmed in Chicago and set to be broadcast later today, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew said that "I wanted to be there with my girls... and to be getting them dressed and to go as a family."

She was not the only high-profile figure to be absent from the Royal Wedding, but perhaps the most notable given the prominence of the prince and their two daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, throughout the day.

She revealed that she found it particularly hard because her own marriage ceremony was the last Royal wedding in Westminster Abbey when she married the Duke of York in 1986.

Instead, she was in Thailand on the day of the wedding but said she spent "all morning" talking to her ex-husband.

She told Oprah that Prince Andrew reassured by saying: 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect."

"We're such a unit together," she said. "He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th."

The Duchess of York was caught last year by an undercover reporter offering to sell access to her former husband for £500,000.

In the wake of that embarrassment it became apparent that she was on the verge of bankruptcy.

"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 and regretting why did I make such a mistake?"

As part of her rebuilding, the duchess is set to present a show on American cable television.

It will air on the OWN channel, owned by none other than Oprah Winfrey herself.