Adjusting to life in the Royal Family as a newcomer comes with its challenges, as royal brides over the years have experienced. While Princess Diana had her own struggles while she was married to Prince Charles, she often leaned on members of palace staff for support—with a special letter the "lonely" princess wrote to one footman recently having been auctioned off. But in his new book, Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, revealed that palace staff treated Sarah Ferguson much differently.
Ferguson married Prince Andrew in July 1986—five years after Diana and Charles—and experienced her fair share of criticism in the press amid comparisons to Diana. It turns out that she received the same treatment within Buckingham Palace, too. In his memoir The Royal Insider (via the Mirror), Burrell wrote that "Fergie was twenty-six and like a bouncy, uncontrollable red setter puppy. She was not as popular or as well received downstairs as Diana had been."
