Philip puts feud with Fergie on ice for Eugenie

WHILE all eyes are usually on the bride at weddings, Princess Eugenie’s official photographs next month will capture the headlines because of the presence of two other prominent figures.

I hear that Prince Philip has agreed to pose in the wedding snaps alongside Eugenie’s mother, Sarah, Duchess of York. It will be the first time that the pair have been pictured together in 26 years.

Philip has studiously avoided Fergie since surreptitiously taken photographs of her sunbathing topless were published by a red-top newspaper in 1992.

The Duchess’s toes were being sucked by American financial manager John Bryan at the time.

‘Her Majesty and the Duke will be in the official photographs, just as they were in those of their other grandchildren, Peter and Zara Phillips, Prince William and Prince Harry,’ a courtier confirms. ‘The Duke loves his granddaughter and wants her big day to be just as special as those of her cousins.’

While Prince Philip plans to attend Eugenie’s nuptials to tequila salesman Jack Brooksbank and take part in the photographs after the ceremony at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, it is not yet clear if he will go to the reception. ‘It is likely to depend on how he feels on the day,’ says the courtier.

Philip is 97 and retired from public duties last year. However, he was able to walk with the Queen unaided at Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May, even though he had undergone a hip replacement six weeks earlier.

Although Fergie is thought to have exchanged not a single word with her former father- in- law since she divorced Prince Andrew in 1996, she has remained on good terms with the Queen. Sarah has stayed several times at Balmoral, although she has always left before Philip arrived.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment.