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Amber Raiken

Sarah Ferguson says she was ‘meant to be’ at World Trade Center on 9/11 as she pays tribute to victims

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Sarah Ferguson has reflected on how she was supposed to be at the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, when the terrorist attacks first occured.

The Duchess of York, 63, took to her Instagram Story on Monday to pay tribute to victims of the September 11 attacks, 22 years after the tragedy occured. On 11 September 2001, hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, while another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back against hijackers, killing nearly 3,000 people in total.

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