Sarah Ferguson Quotes Queen Elizabeth at Lisa Marie Presley’s Memorial: ‘Nervousness Is the Trace We Pay for Have’

Sarah Ferguson is remembering her friend Lisa Marie Presley with a quote from her historical mom-in-laws Queen Elizabeth II.

Ferguson, 63, spoke at Presley’s Graceland memorial service on Sunday so that you can “rejoice the phenomenal Lisa Marie” at an tournament filled with her closest relatives.

“I stand here with mighty honor because we called every other ‘sissy,’ and I have been with you excited about your complete lives in point of fact,” the Duchess of York stated.

Sarah Ferguson and Lisa Marie Presley.
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“Sissy this is for you with affection,” Ferguson persevered. “My late mom-in-laws frail to reveal that nothing [that] can also additionally be stated can commence to purchase away the hassle and the anxiousness of these moments, because disaster is the worth we pay for admire. And how gleaming she used to be.”

The public service used to be held on the entrance backyard at the Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, as relatives Priscilla, daughter Riley Keough, half-brother Navarone Garcia, ex-husband Michael Lockwood, their 14-twelve months-frail twin daughters Finley and Harper and late son Benjamin’s female friend Diana Jay, all got here in give a enhance to of Lisa Marie. Elvis’ finest daughter died Jan. 12 after being rushed to a Los Angeles health heart for a imaginable cardiac arrest at 54 years frail.

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“We gain out about at Priscilla as a mom to Lisa Marie, we gain out about at Lisa Marie and negate, ‘You misplaced a son,'” Ferguson stated of Presley’s son Benjamin who died in 2020. “Moms dropping formative years — there are now now not any words for it. So at the present time we discuss action. Action is the come we can lag forward, we can gentle the flame. So for Riley, for Harper and Finley and your complete household, we march forward in give a enhance to of you. All of us are with you. Whilst you staunch put out your hand we are able to be there. I will positively be there.”

Sarah Ferguson.
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Ferguson went on to be taught a poem by George Frost, the son of British TV journalist David Frost, which he wrote for his late father. “I’ve had my existence and loved every second. Nonetheless as it is some distance, another existence beckoned,” she be taught. “Or now now not it is some distance fundamental to know that I even trust now now not gone. And I am hoping that, on you all, my gentle has shone. Pause within the sunshine, leisure by no come in within the color. Don’t curse my absence, as this gentle you are going to evade. I reside within the smiles, the moon, stars and sky. And I feel eternal pleasure as I gain out about you all soar. And for my darling formative years who wonder what to attain. Upright trust a honest wanting time, as I will, living thru you.”

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The Duchess of York beforehand toasted Presley with regarded as one of the crucial many tributes remembering her late friend closing week. In it, Fergie called her “sissy” and promised she’d “proceed to reveal howdy to you day by day.”

“You had been my sissy, an improbable mom to Ben, Riley, Harper and Finley and a beautifully loving daughter to Priscilla,” Ferguson wrote. “You’ve gotten been my devoted friend for hundreds of years and I am here to your household to present a enhance to and admire them.”

She added, “I am deeply saddened my sissy, that it is likely you’ll well presumably even be in my heart.”

Per the Each day Mail, Fergie and Presley are believed to trust met in 2009, and Presley attended her 50th birthday celebration in London the identical twelve months.

The daughter of Elvis died earlier this month staunch days after Austin Butler took dwelling a Golden Globe on Jan. 10 for taking part in her father in Baz Luhrmann’s film named after him. Butler gave a particular negate-out to Presley’s household on stage at the tournament. After her loss of life, Butler stated that his “heart is entirely shattered.”

“I am forever grateful for the time I used to be lucky passable to be shut to her gleaming gentle and will forever admire the still moments we shared,” the actor stated in an announcement shared with PEOPLE.