I have made endless wrong decisions... but they have got me to today

Sarah, Duchess of York, offers her views on Harry and Meghan, the King, and looking after the late Queen's corgis. 

- HANNAH STEPHENSON

SARAH, Duchess of York, is reflecting on how wonderful it is to be looking after the late Queen’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, since the death of the monarch in September.

“They really make me laugh and they follow me around,” says Sarah, ex-wife of the Duke of York.

“Sometimes I break a little bickie – a digestive biscuit – in the same way the Queen broke it into little pieces, and give it to them and tell them to remember their boss.”

There’s a kookiness about the bubbly, gregarious duchess, or Fergie as she is known to millions – a charity founder and philanthropist, one-time Weight Watchers spokesperson, prolific children’s author and now Mills & Boon romantic fiction writer – as she veers from one subject to the next, oozing warmth and humour.

But there are conditions to this interview. No questions about her ex-husband, the Duke of York, please; only one about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Sarah, 63, clearly doesn’t want to drop any clangers, given the raft of royal scandals she has sparked over the years – from being cast out from the Firm amid a toe-sucking scandal in the 1990s, to reportedly falling deeply into debt in those early years.

But she was invited to spend last Christmas with the royal family at Sandringham, so it seems relations have thawed. Meanwhile, she still lives in the same house as Andrew at Royal Lodge, Windsor, even though they’ve been divorced for more than 25 years.

Today, though, we are here to discuss A Most Intriguing Lady – her second historical romantic novel co-authored with Marguerite Kaye, who has written more than 50 Mills & Boon books.