King Charles issues ‘blunt warning’ to Beatrice and Eugenie amid Andrew controversy
The King has made one thing very clear to his two nieces, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie after stripping Andrew of his royal titles this week, an author claims
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Andrew with his daughters Princess Beatrice and Eugenie (Image: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
King Charles has warned his two nieces, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, that they have to “stand on their own two feet” amid their father Andrew Mountbattern Windsor’s latest scandal, a royal author has claimed.
This week, the former Duke of York was officially stripped of all of his royal titles by the King, over his controversial ties to the late convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
Author Robert Jobson has weighed in on the monarch’s efforts to “make changes that he hopes will keep the monarchy fit for generations to come” since ascending to the throne in 2022, the Express reports.
These changes include having non-working members of the Firm, such as Beatrice and Eugenie, pay their own way in a bid to stop them from utilising royal residences as “subsidised accommodation”.
In Mr Jobson’s book, The Windsor Legacy, segments of which have been serialised by the Mail, it is claimed that one of the issues that mainly frustrates the King, as he confided to his friends, is that the Palace was “being run like a hotel, and not a very good one”.
An insider said: “Over time, that is all going to change. Properties will be let at commercial rates going forward, and to people outside the family. Where it is in a Palace environment, they will, of course, be security vetted.”
Another one added: “The King isn’t running a housing association for distant relatives.”
Princess Beatrice resides in a farmhouse in the Cotswolds with her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and their kids.
However, she divides her time between the countryside and a state-funded flat in St James’s Palace in London.
Her younger sister Eugenie, splits her time between Portugal and the UK alongside her husband, Jack Brooksbank.
When in the UK, the youngest daughter of Andrew, Mountbatten-Windsor, resides at Ivy Cottage, which is located within the grounds of Kensington Palace.
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It comes as their dad, Andrew, was officially stripped of all of his titles and honours after King Charles issued a Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, which was published in The Gazette, the UK’s official public record, by the Crown Office.
The disgraced royal has agreed to vacate the Royal Lodge after 22 years and is set to move to the King’s private Sandringham estate in Norfolk sometime in the new year as he begins his internal exile.
His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who lived with him at Royal Lodge since 2008, will also now need to sort her own living arrangements after being officially cut out of the Firm.
The former duchess has faced intense backlash and been dropped from multiple charities in recent weeks after an old email, which she sent to Epstein, resurfaced.
In the 2011 email, Fergie refers to Epstein as a “supreme friend” and appeared to apologise for her public criticism of him.
