Sarah Ferguson Dishes On The Queen, Prince Andrew & Her Money Issues (PHOTOS)

Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson sat down with Harper's Bazaar to discuss everything from her daughters to missing out on the royal wedding to her new series for Oprah's OWN network.

On Queen Elizabeth II:

The queen, Ferguson says, "is the most wonderful, forgiving, nonjudgmental person I know."

On that whole Prince Andrew scandal:

"I didn't do that, selling access," she says, furrowing her brow. The masquerading Indian mogul, she explains, "said he wanted to start a business with me, and I said, 'If you're going to invest in my business, with that comes my family, because we're all a team together.' But the way it came across in the video, it was so horrible, because they cut it and edited it and changed it, chopped it." As if knowing this all sounds a bit like rewriting history, she adds, "It was a huge lapse in judgment."

On if she could do her marriage all over again:

"I would have fought for Andrew and I to be together after we got married and he went to sea [with the Royal Navy] and I saw him 40 days a year for the first five years of our marriage. I would have never let anyone come between us. Actually, one of the people [at Buckingham Palace], who shall remain nameless, said, 'Oh, for heaven's sake, you're just a naval wife. Put up with it. Everyone else has to.' I would say, 'No, I'm going to be with him.'

On her money issues:

"I think my financial problems have come from desperately trying to please, from my addiction to approval and to thinking that I'm not worthy, so I have to buy people's love. What I didn't have until Oprah came into my life," she adds, "and [the reason] I am so grateful to her, was the toolbox to know how to handle the twists in the road."

Take a look at photos of Fergie and head over to HarpersBazaar.com to read the rest. The issue hits newsstands May 31.

WATCH behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot:

Comments

[Tosha Woody]

05:02 PM on 06/20/2011

She is lovely and an inspiration.

[VegasBabe]

09:34 AM on 05/24/2011

I'm kinda tired of seeing this woman. Oprah hiring her to do only gawd knows what for OWN may be a mistake.

[KristenfromMA]

12:08 AM on 05/24/2011

She needs to stop messing with her face. She's done enough damage.

[lexingtonKY]

09:50 AM on 05/23/2011

Now she starts kissing up.

[AllieGoogle]

11:30 AM on 05/22/2011

Andrew still loves her and they still live together. What she should have done all along was to stop running her mouth to every media out there about private matters. If she had - she might have been invited to the wedding.

[usamade]

10:52 AM on 05/22/2011

Whatever. We all screw up in life and we get over it and on with it.

[FLDeziner]

10:16 PM on 05/21/2011

They made her look like Barbara Cartland, the late romance writer, with those octagenarian clothes. Looks like the magazine pimped her. Who's her handler and why didn't someone say NO!!???

[Piglet2]

03:59 PM on 05/21/2011

I think Oprah is going to learn that giving TV time to pathetic people that nobody cares about will force her back into syndication to save her billion dollar empire. Th Judds, Twain, Fergie and Gail don't bring huge audiences to her network, I think Rosie will work during the day and if OWN reverses it's decision and decides to bring on OLTL and AMC they could see a significant rise in viewers. I have no need to see or hear about anything Fergie has to say this is a woman who had the world by the tail and she threw it away - don't care,.

[mrpuddles]

01:04 PM on 05/21/2011

She is not royalty.

[Indigo1941]

12:48 PM on 05/21/2011

I like Fergie.

[tanx8]

12:21 AM on 05/21/2011

The clothes and styling of the shoot is wrong on many levels. Fergie is no worse or better than the rest of her leech inlaws.

[Cowboylove]

10:43 PM on 05/20/2011

A body double for Angela Lansbury....

[Analisa Perez]

06:30 PM on 05/20/2011

she looks weird in these pictures...photoshop strikes again, i guess.

[Wistfulslinking]

04:10 PM on 05/20/2011

Idjot, Dressed like a cheap trollop and still TALKING to the media.

[RunMyMoney]

01:48 PM on 05/20/2011

I love Sarah, not sure why she wasnt able to attend the weeding, but my biggest question is; why does each of these photos look as if her head has been photo shopped into the photo?