Princess Eugenie Celebrates Mom Sarah Ferguson’s Birthday with New Photos of Her in ‘Grannie’ Mode

Princess Eugenie is wishing her mother Sarah Ferguson a happy birthday with previously unseen photos of her as a grandmother.

The Duchess of York, who is popularly known as Fergie, turned 65 on Oct. 15, and her younger daughter posted a loving tribute with the pictures on Instagram.

“Happy birthday to my beautiful mumma. So proud of the Grannie you are, the mum you are and the woman you are,” Princess Eugenie wrote on social media. “You’re an inspiration and our endless chats bring me so much happiness and incredible support.”

Eugenie’s birthday wishes captioned a carousel of six photos, and it opened with two pictures of Fergie in doting “Grannie” mode. The shots seemingly showed the Duchess of York in a garden with Princess Eugenie’s son Ernest, 1, squatting down to his eye level (a trick Kate Middleton and Prince William have long used to connect with kids). Eugenie, 34, shares sons Ernest and August, 3, with her husband Jack Brooksbank, and it appeared to be their youngest son in the snaps.

There was also a sentimental meaning to Eugenie’s post honoring her mom, otherwise known as “Grannie.” Princess Eugenie and her sister Princess Beatrice called their grandmother Queen Elizabeth “Grannie,” and the social media post hinted that Eugenie’s children may be calling their grandmother the Duchess the same. 

The montage rolled to show two glam photos of Fergie along with a previously unseen selfie of her and Eugenie, along with another undated image of the Duchess of York with Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice. Fergie shares her daughters with her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, and the family will expand next year. On Oct. 1, Buckingham Palace announced that Princess Beatrice, 36, and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are expecting their second child together, and that the baby is due in the “early spring” of 2025. The couple are parents to daughter Sienna, 3, and Christopher Woolf, 8, Edo’s son from a previous relationship. 

On her Oct. 15 birthday, the Duchess of York and Princess Beatrice stepped out in London for the 10th annual Lady Garden Foundation Langan’s Ladies Lunch fundraising for the The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. The Duchess has been an adamant advocate for the importance of early cancer detection through screenings after navigating two cancer diagnoses between 2023 and 2024.

Prince William is president of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, a position previously held by his late mother, Princess Diana.

Fergie posed for a picture with Joan Collins and Elizabeth Hurley at the event, held at Langan’s Brasserie, and smiled alongside Princess Beatrice in a mother-daughter photo moment.

Speaking to PEOPLE at the Sept. 25 launch of the Youth Impact Council in New York City, Fergie opened up about her Founding Ambassador role with the council and how she is proud of the women her daughters are today.

“It’s almost, this is the university of life for me to be learning from young people that are actually out there doing the work,” says the Duchess of York, referring to the YIC. “It’s like Beatrice and Eugenie are out there doing the work. Eugenie does a lot with The Anti-Slavery Collective, Beatrice does an enormous amount in technology and with dyslexia and really believes in humanity in the workplace, with compassion.” 

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“I believe that all those values, I was able to help guide them into this place they are, is what I’m going to bring to the youth leaders of Gen Z,” says the Duchess. 

“One example would be on [each of] their 18th birthdays I took them to a teenage cancer unit and I walked them around and showed them what it is to hold the hand of a young teenager who’s dying of cancer and to be able to know what it’s like and to talk to people who are very unwell and give hope,” Fergie says. “I think that value system of giving back has always stayed with them. They’re the best examples of their values and the traditional cultures that I’m bringing to youth leaders now.”