Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie's 'big fight' that forced Sarah Ferguson to step in

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie once had a big childhood fight which led to their mum, Sarah Ferguson, stepping in to help them resolve it. On an appearance on Cressida Bonas's podcast titled 'Lessons From Our Mothers', the sibling duo took a trip down memory lane.

The actress, who dated Prince Harry for two years and is now married to property investor Harry Wentworth-Stanley, was joined on her podcast by the York sisters, who recalled a memorable incident involving a pair of pink Converse trainers. Princess Beatrice, 36, explained how the pair had a "big fight" over who the trainers belonged to, before later both making up at long last at the request of their mum.

Describing the fight, Beatrice acknowledged how it was a "big one".

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She added: "And mum just jumped into that fight and was like, 'Come on, you can do it!' The forced collaboration, you're slightly annoyed about because she's pushing on a bit of a nerve, but the forced collaboration and that joy of the making up at the end was a big part of what she instilled in us.

"This sense that it's OK to feel, it's OK to push on those emotions, but you have to figure out what the resolution looks like as well. So she was very resolution-driven."

On the podcast, Princess Eugenie also opened up about a sweet moment her mother "moved into the hospital" with her during her scoliosis operation, and if ever she was in pain, she was right by her bedside.

Speaking of the moment, she said: "And she used to be so proud of me and my scar and what I'd been through, that if people were ever talking about it, she would turn me around and she would show them my scar."

During an interview with Hello! Magazine, mum Sarah spoke about their unbreakable bond she has with her daughters.

She said: "They support me through thick and thin, not least my recent illness. We call each other 'The Tripod' because we prop each other up, come what may."

Sarah, Duchess of York, 65, was diagnosed with malignant melanoma last January in a shock diagnosis that came six months after she had treatment for breast cancer and underwent breast reconstruction surgery.

Ferguson admitted the experience was "traumatic" but said that being in her sixties at the time of the two back-to-back health scares meant she had the "maturity and life experience" to cope.