She described how Ferguson shared a stream of ideas about how she wanted to present herself publicly, including her charitable work, with Beatrice acting as a kind of intermediary.
“Fergie was like: ‘I want to come across as this, and I’d like to be known as this, and if we do it I want it to be done like this, and I want you to talk about my work over here with this charity’.
“I was taking it all in, she’s hitting me with this barrage of thoughts and ideas, and it was coming through Beatrice, to the side.
“She (Beatrice) was analysing. ‘You know just to clarify what mummy’s saying…’ She was very organised, she was very thoughtful and processing her mother’s thoughts in real-time and acting as a conduit.”
A Moment Revisited in a New Light
Looking back, Mansey said the encounter now feels more significant, especially following the fallout surrounding the Epstein files and the arrest of Beatrice’s father, Prince Andrew.
“That is interesting now of course, because we wonder how close she (Beatrice) was to any of the business deals that Sarah Ferguson or perhaps her father (Andrew) was doing at the time,” she noted.