How clever of Princess Eugenie to give birth in Portugal, conveniently distant from her disgraced father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and away from the scrutiny of who pays for her London pad at Kensington Palace. Who could blame her for seeking a quieter life away from the UK and the glare of her parents’ scandal?
When to invite the grandparents over is a perennial problem for new parents. In the normal run of things, we could have expected this once tight-knit family of Andrew, Sarah, Beatrice and Eugenie to gather and gurgle around the latest arrival as soon as possible. But Andrew, whose friendship with a convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and the lies he subsequently told, has brought the House of York crashing down; he’s now isolated and in exile at Sandringham.
His ex-wife Sarah – who has also been publicly humiliated over her fawning friendship with Epstein – has done an impressive disappearing act. Apart from one snatched picture at a luxury resort in Switzerland, she hasn’t been seen for months on end. And with further reports this week that Epstein was allegedly threatening to go public about how not only Sarah, but Beatrice and Eugenie, had enjoyed his hospitality just days after he had been released from prison, no-one is going to want to step into the spotlight any time soon.
