FERGIE TO HAVE XMAS WITHOUT DAUGHTERS
EXCLUSIVE: Fergie girls with dad
By Jane Kerr, Royal Reporter
THE Duchess of York has decided to end the annual humiliation of spending Christmas alone at Sandringham.
For the first time in 16 years, the royal outcast will rent a cottage away from the estate to join her step-mother, Sue, the widow of Major Ron Ferguson and their children.
But the break with tradition, which has seen the Duchess, 44, spend a lonely Christmas on the Norfolk estate every year since her divorce, means sacrificing time with her daughters.
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will stay at Sandringham House with their father, the Duke of York, and other senior royals over the festive break instead of their mum.
Last night a family friend said: "The girls have always been with her when they wake up on Christmas morning. But it's Sue's first Christmas without Major Ron this year and the Duchess felt she wanted to be with her.
"Her nephew Seamus is also over from Australia so they have decided to rent a cottage. It will still be in Norfolk but it won't at Sandringham."
Banished from the main house since her marriage split, the Duchess has stayed at Wood Farm, a farmhouse on the estate two miles away.
While her daughters joined the other royals at the morning church service, Fergie stayed behind waiting patiently. But she has never complained because it gave her a chance to see her children on Christmas morning.
The ban is thought to have been ordered by the Duke of Edinburgh, who once described her as "pointless" and admitted that he avoided her.
In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine three years ago, the Duchess spoke about her lonely Christmases when she was asked: "Has it reached the point at all where Beatrice will look at you and say, "Mummy, why does Grandpa hate you so much?" The Duchess replied: "Oh yes. I don't know if she's ever used the word 'hate'.
"But I think they both want to know why I am excluded from family engagements. And I have to explain to them.. that's the way they have chosen to be. I'm definitely not part of the Royal Family."
The Duchess's father Major Ron Ferguson died in March this year, leaving his second wife Sue and three children from the marriage.
Friends say that the family celebration will inevitably be tinged with sadness as they spend their first Christmas without him.
) The media's gone crazy, cellulite *scoff*)
nobody would have noticed if they hadn't put that in big in their title of the pic 
I think she might've had braces. I'm sure that Harry had braces, though. She might've worn a retainer... 
