Just In: ‘Radioactive’ Princesses Beatrice, Eugenie’s standing in the public eye takes a U turn
Just In: ‘Radioactive’ Princesses Beatrice, Eugenie’s standing in the public eye takes a U turn
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are currently seeing the tides change and shift slowly in their favor, more so because they largely kept their heads down.”
Royal author Alicia Liberty pointed this out in a piece for Express UK, and said, “the York brand, bluntly put, has become radioactive. But here is the important distinction many people forget: Beatrice and Eugenie themselves have actually done very little wrong.”
“Unlike Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, they never launched public attacks on the monarchy. Unlike Andrew, they were not personally engulfed in scandal.”
Instead, “they largely kept their heads down, raised their families and quietly slipped out of the public firing line while the storm surrounding their father raged on.”
Moreover, the fact that they are still very much part of the institution’s wider fabric, “whether critics like it or not,” shows something big, something that matters more than people realise.
Another reason for the sudden softness towards them may also be because the monarchy is realizing that members like Princess Anne cannot keep up these many events, or these many public facing moments for long. Multiply that with Kate Middleton’s own decision to step back and Prince William’s constant balancing act between managing family and work, “suddenly, two experienced, media-trained princesses who still hold royal titles begin looking rather useful,” in the eyes of the expert who signed off shortly after
