Best Friends Torn Apart!

Amber lost her bestie to the people of Denmark and now she’s set to tell all about their friendship

For decades, Princess Mary has leaned on her best mate Amber Petty – from asking her to be a bridesmaid at her 2004 wedding through to inviting her on family holidays with her husband Prince Frederik and their four children.

But Woman’s Day has learned that Mary, 48, is finding herself feeling that it’s “increasingly harder to maintain a friendship” with her Melbourne-based friend, and it’s not just because she’s thousands of kilometres away in Copenhagen.

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“Amber has been talking nonstop about Princess Mary and taking it a little too far for her comfort,” says a source.

“She has her memoir coming out soon, and Mary is worried she’s going to feature in it way too much.”

Indeed, recently on Australian TV Amber shot an arrow through the widely believed story that Mary met her prince during a chance encounter over margaritas at Sydney’s Slip Inn pub during the 2000 Olympics.