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“It’s important,” a source at the wedding previously told People of the princess bride’s decision not to cover up the mark. “If she hadn’t had that operation, she wouldn’t be able to walk — and here she was, walking down the aisle, so it was a seismic moment.”
In a June Instagram post, Eugenie opened up about her scoliosis diagnosis as a child. She posted a photo of her X-rays, which show the 8-inch rods doctors inserted into her spine and the 1.5-inch screws at the top of her neck after an 8-hour operation she endured.
Gushing over her daughter’s happy union, Fergie shared that the couple “are just meant to be.”
“He will be the best consort there is, as Prince Albert was to Queen Victoria. I know it will be that sort of love match,” she added.
During the interview, the mother of two also had nothing but kind words to say about her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, 58.
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“We’re the happiest divorced couple in the world. We’re divorced to each other, not from each other,” she said.
Andrew and the Fergie wed on July 23, 1986 before welcoming their daughters Princess Beatrice, 30, and Eugenie. The pair announced their separation in March 1992 before officially divorcing four years later.
Since splitting, the parents have maintained a very amicable relationship — and Fergie actually lives at Andrew’s royal residence, Royal Lodge, in Windsor.
In fact, Fergie told People in a 2011 article that she and Andrew get along so well that she’s asked her daughters, “Do you think Mummy and Papa should get back together again? And they say, ‘You’re great the way you are now; it’s fine.’”
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