Duchess of York<\/a>, 63, added her mother was a \u201cchild\u201d who didn\u2019t know \u201chow to be a mummy\u201d as she opened up about her traumatic upbringing, which saw her abandoned aged 13 when her mum Susan Barrantes, went to live in Argentina with her boyfriend, and her dad Ronald became obsessed with polo, while her sister Jane moved to Australia.<\/p>\nShe told the Sunday Times when asked if she was close to her parents: \u201cMy mother was a beautiful woman but she was a child herself. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t know how to be a mummy. We would never dream now of using the language my parents used on us as children.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad used to call me a sheep\u2019s a***. If I refused to eat my semolina mum would hit me and say she needed to beat the devil out of me.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cFood became my best friend. At difficult times I\u2019ve always turned to childhood foods like boiled egg and soldiers, baked potatoes and sausage rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShe added about her family breaking up: \u201cWhen I was 14 my mother eloped to Argentina with a very good-looking polo player. She came back for my sister\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThen my sister left to start her new married life in Australia and I lost them both on the same day.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI never truly understood why my mother left me and it has taken me a long time to deal with my low self-esteem.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhen I was little I used to leave notes in her dressing room saying, \u2018Mummy, please don\u2019t die in a car crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShockingly, Sarah\u2019s mum did die in a car accident, in Argentina in 1998, aged 61.<\/p>\n
\nShe was returning to her country home on 19 September 1998 when the Rover 400 she was driving had a head-on collision with a Renault catering truck on a two-lane highway.<\/p>\n
\nThe driver of the truck, Jose Maria Rodriguez, suffered a broken ankle, but Susan was not wearing a seat belt and was decapitated and killed.<\/p>\n
\nHer then-25-year-old nephew, Raphael, was in her car and hospitalised with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
\nSarah was also in a road crash the year before her death, when her car flipped an estimated seven times.<\/p>\n
\nIn 1976, Sarah\u2019s dad Major Ronald Ferguson married for the second time to Susan Rosemary Deptford and they had three children.<\/p>\n
\nHe died in October 2017 aged 71 after fighting prostate cancer, with which he was diagnosed in 1996, and skin cancer.<\/p>\n
\nMajor Ferguson suffered a heart attack in November 2002 and died in March 2003 at the Hampshire Clinic in Hampshire, England, after another cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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