Sarah Ferguson reveals she and Princess Diana were arrested during wild night out

The Duchess of York has lifted the lid on how she and her former sister-in-law ended up in the back of a police van during a wild night out in London.

Fergie and Diana were once arrested together, according to Prince Andrew’s ex-wife.

Sarah Ferguson has revealed she and Princess Diana were arrested at her hen’s party back in 1986.

The pair decided to dress up as police officers for Fergie’s pre-wedding festivities, which led to actual law enforcement arresting them for impersonating officers.

She said once the authorities realised Diana and Fergie were royals, the future sisters-in-law were quickly let go, reports The Sun.

The Duchess of York said on The Kelly Clarkson Show: “It was extraordinary, because we went to a nightclub – of course, you go to a nightclub with the Princess of Wales.

“We sat down, and the waiter came up to us and said, ‘Excuse me, this is a members club. It’s for fun, and we don’t serve police officers here.”

She said when they were arrested, they hid their engagement rings once inside the police van.

Fergie then claimed Diana saw some “smoky bacon-flavoured crisps” in the vehicle and “started taking and eating them”.

That is, until an officer in the front seat shouted at her: “You can’t do that!”

The sisters-in-law, pictured here in 1983, were once close friends. Picture: Georges De Keerle/Getty Images

The hen’s party was reportedly a “riot”, with royal expert Tom Quinn saying Diana and Fergie were “lying on the floor, champagne being fired in every direction”.

The group also went to Annabel’s, one of the world’s most exclusive nightclubs, where they continued the celebrations.

According to Town and Country magazine, the partners in crime also got into trouble outside Buckingham Palace.

The pair were briefly arrested during a night out, according to Fergie.

Fergie is currently on a book tour. Picture: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

The royal women finished their evening of mischief by locking Prince Andrew out of the palace as he returned from his buck’s party.

The pair were very close throughout the years, despite Fergie telling Harper’s Bazaar in 2007 that Diana hadn’t spoken to her in a year.

Fergie said: “In fact, the day before she died she rang a friend of mine and said, ‘Where’s that Red? I want to talk to her.’”

The Duchess of York also admitted she doesn’t miss Diana, who passed away in 1997, because she is with her “all day”.

“She and I, we laughed a lot,” Fergie said. “We got into trouble a lot.”

Diana and Fergie both formally divorced their husbands in 1996.

This article originally appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission

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