The sight of Princess Beatrice dancing on tables at a birthday party in Rome last week, and then appearing with Princess Eugenie at the wedding of Peter Phillips, suggests that it’s business as usual for the York daughters.
This is despite last week’s National Audit Office report, which revealed that Queen Elizabeth II and now the King have long been covering a subsidised rent for Beatrice’s four-bedroomed apartment at St James’s Palace and Eugenie’s three-bedroom Ivy Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace.
King Charles’s attitude to the two women over recent months has oscillated frantically. Last year, after their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was stripped of his royal titles, Eugenie and Beatrice joined the Royal Family at Sandringham on Christmas morning – but last month, did not attend Ascot, following a Palace decision. It shows he does not yet know what to do with his two nieces. The narrative has so far been that they should not be blamed for the sins of their parents, but is this fair, and is the new royal stance wise?
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Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 36, have their royal residences despite having always been non-working royals – and the fact they have their own expensive homes. Unlike other non-working royals, they are also married to wealthy husbands.
