{"id":597407,"date":"2025-11-27T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597407\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:42:17","slug":"duchess-appears-to-take-swipe-at-meghan-markle-and-sarah-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597407\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess appears to take swipe at Meghan Markle and Sarah Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Duchess of Northumberland appears to have made a subtle dig at Sarah Ferguson and Meghan Markle in a new interview.<\/p>\n

Jane Percy revealed that she writes her books under the pen name of Jane Northumberland to avoid using her royal title. <\/p>\n

She claimed: \u201cUnlike other duchesses who put their names everywhere, I’m not using my title. I’d say it could be detrimental as one or two duchesses haven’t really helped the cause lately.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople think it must have been easy for me, but nothing comes from nothing. It\u2019s all been down to hard work,” she told the Telegraph. <\/p>\n

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The Duchess of Northumberland appears to have taken a swipe at Meghan Markle in a recent interview <\/p>\n

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Her comments appear to be referring to Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, who stepped down from her royal duties in 2020.<\/p>\n

After relocating to the US, Meghan has made a series of digs towards other royals during her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, and also told Bloomberg\u2019s Emily Chang she \u201ccouldn\u2019t be as vocal\u201d when she first married Prince Harry.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ferguson, meanwhile, lost her Duchess of York title last month when her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, agreed to give up his title.<\/p>\n

She had been a well-renowned children’s author before her and her ex-husband\u2019s links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein emerged.<\/p>\n

Jane has her own connection to the royals, having hosted King Charles for visits at Alnwick Castle, with her daughter Melissa is friends with Harry\u2019s ex-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy.<\/p>\n

She has also had her say on Prince Harry and Prince William\u2019s fallout, previously having her say on the dispute in an interview with the Daily Mail in 2023.<\/p>\n

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The duchess has given her verdict on the feud between Prince William and Prince Harry <\/p>\n

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She said: \u201cTo have two boys who aren’t communicating, one on the other side of the world, is the saddest thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, they are communicating. I’m sure there’s a lot we don’t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duchess moved to Alnwick Castle in 1995, after marrying her husband, the Duke of Northumberland, Ralph Percy. <\/p>\n

The couple have four children together, Katie, George, Melissa, and Max, with seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Jane also shares a keen interest with the King, as they both share a love of gardening.<\/p>\n

The former professional ice skater takes on the huge task of managing the gardens at Alnwick Castle. <\/p>\n

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The Duchess of Northumberland has shown King Charles around Alnwick Castle multiple times <\/p>\n

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In one corner, there is a fantasy fairy area for children called Lilidorei, which opened in 2023, and has had a book released to accompany it.<\/p>\n

The gardens also contains the world’s largest treehouse, and drew around 380,000 visitors last year, despite being unfinished. <\/p>\n

Under her pen name, she has written her first novel, titled Amanita, with plans for another, alongside a colouring book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Northumberland appears to have made a subtle dig at Sarah Ferguson and Meghan Markle in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,1281,5105,7717,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-597407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-sarah-ferguson","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115622428447928925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}