Just In: Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie’s exclusion leads to clash within royal family
Just In: Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie’s exclusion leads to clash within royal family
Ever since the latest controversies surrounding Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, came to light, their daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, have been forced to keep out of the spotlight.
The Princesses did not join the Royal Family at the Royal Ascot races this year and were also absent from the Chelsea Flower Show.
While Beatrice’s and Eugenie’s snub from the firm did not cause much buzz publicly, HeatWorld reported that one senior royal is not happy and is becoming increasingly “protective” over the sisters.
A source has shared that Princess Anne believes the treatment Beatrice and Eugenie received from the family amid their parents’ scandals is “awful”.
Moreover, an alleged feud has erupted between the princesses’ aunt and Queen Camilla, who Anne believes has been driving a “cruel” campaign to oust the sisters from the royal fold.
“Anne is not happy that Eugenie and Beatrice are being frozen out. As their aunt she’s very protective of them and she doesn’t take kindly to someone she sees as an outsider being cruel to them,” an insider noted.
They claimed that the sisters should not be paying the price of their parents’ problematic past, and Anne believes that Charles would be more kind towards his nieces if it weren’t for Camilla “calling the shots”.
“She says this level of coldness is not in her brother’s character, she says it’s got Camilla’s fingerprints all over it,” said the source.
It was reported that the Princess Royal is requesting a meeting with the monarch over the matter of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
Reports about tension between Princess Anne and Queen Camilla are not new, as the Queen’s ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, briefly left Camilla for Anne in the early 1970s.
At the time, Andrew was dismissed as the right marriage match for Anne due to him being Catholic.
Andrew went on to tie the knot with Camilla in 1973, and Anne married equestrian Mark Phillips the same year before divorcing him in 1992 and marrying retired royal naval officer Timothy Laurence later that year.
Notably, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have received an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Anne’s son, Peter Phillips, to Harriet Sperling; however, it has not been confirmed if they will grace the private ceremony.
