Sarah Ferguson celebrated King Charles III’s coronation Saturday by hosting a traditional high tea for the elderly after being snubbed from the ceremony.
“I hope you have got the bunting out ready for the Coronation tomorrow. I certainly have,” Ferguson wrote in a post on Instagram Friday along with several photos from the festive tea party, where the late Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis made an appearance.
She continued, “Today I assembled a tea fit for a King which I shared with the residents at the Manor Care Home in Windsor to help them celebrate. Enjoy the weekend!”
The Duchess of York’s tribute at the nursing home included a honey sponge cake dubbed “Charles’ Crunchy Cream Cake,” a variation of teas honoring Queen Camilla, crown-shaped scones and marmalade sandwiches.
Photos of the spread show one of the late Queen’s corgis panting joyfully at the table, which was covered in a red and white gingham tablecloth and fine china.
“It’s so exciting! I hope everyone’s getting ready for Saturday,” Ferguson said in a video highlighting the menu items of the tea.
Ferguson and her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, famously took in the late monarch’s two corgis, Muick and Sandy, after the Queen died at the age of 96 last September.
Several of Ferguson’s Instagram followers commended her for honoring Charles despite the invitation snub.
“That’s truly selfless and dignified!! I personally think you should be there but I hope you have a wonderful day x ????????????????????,” one person wrote in the comments section of her post.
“The dinosaur royals in charge atm should let Sarah attend. Why divide and not include EVERYONE! Shouldn’t the royals show how to unite starting in their own family?” a second person commented.
“@sarahferguson15 while I know you’re no longer married to Prince Andrew, you still are a member of the royal family. I’m disappointed the King and Queen Consort did not extend an invitation to you for the Coronation. You’ve been very magnanimous towards them both,” another agreed.
In April, Page Six confirmed that Ferguson, 63, wasn’t able to secure an invitation to the coronation of Charles, 74, and his wife, Queen Camilla, 75, at Westminster Abbey in London.
A source shared at the time that Charles did not invite Fergie to the ceremony.
But the snub came as no surprise to Ferguson, who shared in a recent interview that she didn’t expect to be invited considering she and Charles’ brother Andrew, 63, had finalized their divorce in 1996.
“You can’t have it both ways. You mustn’t sit on the fence. You’re either in or out, but don’t muck around,” she said on “Good Morning Britain” last month of not making the cut.
She added that she wasn’t “actually offended” and is enjoying being divorced from Andrew.
“Just because I’m not there on the state occasion … in private I can be there, and that’s a lovely feeling to be part of the family. It really is,” she said.
Ferguson expressed that she would be celebrating her former brother-in-law’s big day on her own.
“I personally will be having a little tea room and coronation chicken sandwich and putting out the bunting,” she said on ITV’s “Loose Women” in April.
The “A Most Intriguing Lady” author separated from Andrew in 1992 after six years of marriage, and they finalized their divorce four years later.
The exes share daughters Princess Beatrice, 34, and Princess Eugenie, 33, both of whom were set to attend their uncle’s coronation.
Andrew also showed face at the coronation despite his ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. However, he was not assigned an official role at the ceremony, having been stripped from his royal title by the late Queen last year over the scandal.
Like Andrew, Charles’ youngest son, Prince Harry, was also not assigned any official role, as the Duke of Sussex, 38, resigned from his royal duties in 2020 when he moved to California with his wife, Meghan Markle.
But Prince William, 40, and his son Prince George, 9 — who are first and second in the line of succession to the British throne, respectively — were granted official responsibilities for the historical day.
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The Duke of York attended his big brother’s coronation alongside sister Princess Anne, 72, and brother Prince Edward, 59.
This is not the first time Ferguson has been left off the guest list of a royal engagement. She was not invited to William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011.
“I didn’t think I was probably worthy to go to their wedding,” she told Town & Country in 2021. “I took myself to Thailand, actually, to be far away from it so that I could try and heal.”
She was, however, invited to Harry and Markle’s wedding in 2018.
