Princess Eugenie has been publicly silent with everything that’s gone on around her father in the past month. Her older sister Beatrice got thrown under the royal bus quite thoroughly, and it’s my belief that the only way Beatrice will be allowed to have any kind of royal wedding is if she marries Edo Mapelli Mozzi in a Windsor Castle closet with no photographer. Eugenie didn’t get thrown under the bus though, and I wonder why that is. My feeling is that maybe Eugenie understood how bad her father’s interview was and she’s been trying to figure out her next step, what it means for her future in the family. Plus, Eugenie has a legit job – she’s a director with Hauser & Wirth’s London gallery. Eugenie is also in Miami for Art Basel this week.
Her royal father, Prince Andrew, is embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of the century — but apparently, it’s business as usual for Princess Eugenie. The British royal was seen at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Wednesday ahead of the official opening of Art Basel, Page Six is told. Eugenie — who is a director at prestigious Brit gallery Hauser & Wirth — jetted out amid her dad’s crisis.
A spy said, “Eugenie comes to Art Basel every year. She’s got a really high-powered job — she has work to do.” In past years, Eugenie, who’s married to Jack Brooksbank, has been seen out and about at Basel, posing with famous names from former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to Keanu Reeves.
Page Six had a second story, with another sighting of Beatrice at a “Dom Pérignon-fueled bash called ‘The Last Supper’ at hotelier Alan Faena’s mansion.” Eugenie “spent her time with a group of pals by the pool sipping drinks and taking a puff of a cigarette.” An eyewitness said: “She wasn’t being wild or anything, no one really noticed her. She seemed to be having a nice time chatting with her friends. At one point Paris Hilton joined their group. At some point bodyguards blocked off her area, but for most of the night, her space was free to any revelers.” It must have been nice for her to get out of Britain for a week and party in Miami for “work.” And it probably WAS work – I would imagine all of the major galleries sent representatives to Art Basel.
Also, for what’s it worth, Us Weekly reports this about the York princesses:
Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are sticking together as their dad Prince Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein continues to make headlines.
“Eugenie and Beatrice are really upset. They believe their dad made a huge mistake in judgment ever being associated to Jeffrey Epstein,” a source reveals exclusively on Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast. “The girls are leaning on each other and are being really supportive of their dad and also understand that this is something that is going to change how he is able to perform his duties moving forward. They understand the forever consequences of it.”
Yeah… as much as we want to treat Beatrice and Eugenie like a unit, this might be the point where they begin to diverge significantly. It was clear that Buckingham Palace courtiers had no qualms about throwing Beatrice under the bus, but Eugenie still feels “protected” somehow. I think it’s very interesting that Eugenie hasn’t been seen at Windsor to visit her dad (while Beatrice has). Hm.
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I think she’s playing it very smart staying away and not being seen associating with her pig father. My secret hope is that she believes the victims and tells PA off, father or no father.
That.
She stays quite and away, her sister was somehow involved with the BBC mess, that’s why they are throwing her under the bus.
I thought , former UN Sec General Kofi Annan is dead, and has been buried in Ghana. Maybe Eugenie was hanging out with his ghost, very dodgy
The article says “in years past” she was seen with Kofi Annan. It doesn’t say it was this year, lol.
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There’s some Weekend at Bernie’s shenanigans going on there …
Its interesting that Eugenie is being protected but Beatrice is being thrown to the wolves.
Weird.
Perhaps, given Eugenie’s anti-human trafficking / anti-slavery stance, she has been especially sensitive to her father’s involvement with Epstein. I wouldn’t be surprised if she told her father that she believed the women who had come forward and that she disapproved of his behaviour.
Given her background publicizing art, Eugenie would be acutely aware that being seen with her father during these times would indicate that she is publicly supporting her father. Such support would not be on-brand with her message.
Her charity seems to be doing good work: https://theantislaverycollective.org/our-team/
It might be because if they throw her under her the bus, her anti-slavery initiative would suffer. Imagine how betrayed her organization would feel with her publicly supporting her father the rapist-trafficker. She wouldn’t be able to be patron to any of those and go to those galas or do any work for the without it blowing up in the press every time.
Yeah I’m quite curious as to why Bea is being thrown under the bus whereas Eugenie is being lowkey and hasn’t been mentioned.
Because Beatrice participated in the BBC train wreck on an interview.
I think it might just be the family dynamic. Bea has always been a little messier like her parents. Not that she’s necessarily doing illegal things like her parents, but she did earn her party reputation schmoozing wealthy investors with Dave for Uber on yachts. All of Bea’s past boyfriends have been shady types actually. In comparison, Jack is very normal and Eugenie has always seemed very low-key. It could be that Bea, as the eldest, protected her sister from a lot of her parents bad behaviors. So, she turned out less shady. She’s still had some themed birthday parties that show she’s more like them than people think. The way the whole thing was dumped on Bea, I get the impression that Bea had to kind of parent her own parents. So, it makes sense that Eugenie would still be more protected since that’s probably been their dynamic from a young age.
I was going to say, let’s not forget her “Snow White” themed party, where she hired seven little people to follow her around as The Seven Dwarves. She’s not so Snow White herself.
Eugenie is savvy and careful about life and public connections, while Beatrice is less so.
The royals will appreciate that and be there for Eugenie as long as she continues because that is also how they operate and survive.
Beatrice appears to take after her Dad.
I actually think Bea isn’t meant for marriage, to anyone, and she reminds me a bit of Princess Margaret. No shame in that but she either doesn’t know this about herself or does know but figures, “eh, give it a go and divorce later”.
I do hope they support Bea because she is a product of her upbringing and she does fit in with the private truths of them as a family.
I do think part of it is that Eugenie is married, and thus “under the protection” of her husband, who seems to be a well liked kind of British aristo guy. Whereas Beatrice isn’t married yet, so she’s seen as still “belonging to” her father. Plus the guy she’s engaged to is a shady seeming, non Brit. I think it could be some internalized, deep misogyny on the point of reporters who may not even realize they have this bias.
Also this part made me shake my head: “The sisters know that the scandal is going to impact how their father goes about performing his royal duties. They understand the forever-nature of the consequences” (paraphrased). That’s a contradiction. They must not understand how forever these consequences are if they’re still expecting their dad to do royal duties.
Methinks Eugenie may have information that her sister doesn’t which is by Beatrice has gotten thrown into the fray. However it’s weird that Beatrice has been thrown under the bus at all because Andrew is known to be an advocate for his daughters where the RF is concerned. However, PR at the palace is a dog’s breakfast because they’re so inept-so then there’s that.
Eugenie seems to be smart and to have accepted her fate and role within the BRF. She went on to uni, got a job and started growing a career in the art world, even if nepotism was involved (no one was going to deny her an interview). She has worked consistently and supported her grandmother when required to do so. Beatrice, on the other hand, not so much. She should emulate her sister and begin to lead a more low-key life. Now’s not the time to pull focus.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. For a number of years now, Eugenie has been the York princess who seemed determined to do something useful, show a little discipline, and display the ability to hold a real job. Beatrice, on the other hand, seemed to hop from one vacation to the next, the last time she supposedly did any work was several years ago when she was in New York, and the fact that even did actually work is highly disputed. She seems the next generation, female embodiment of her father. A spoiled, pampered, “party princess” who’s bad judgement (i.e. encouraging her father to do the interview) might rival her father’s. Although at least her father served in the military. What has Beatrice done that has benefited her country or justified her lifestyle? I say throw her under the bus, and make sure to leave room for her nitwitted mother, too.
Bea wasn’t told she wouldn’t be a working Royal until after she was already in college. She didn’t have as much time to adjust as her sister. As for her party girl image, it was earned when she was helping Dave schmooze rich investors for Uber. She’s worked consistently aside from that period of time. She didn’t know that Dave was using her and likely considered supporting his career important for their future together. She currently has a full time job, but no one believes it because of the party girl image. I’m not saying she is a hard worker, but she’s not as bad as she is made out to be.
Sure she does. An entry level Vice President… we all get those going into a company. How is she ever working when ALL we do is see her partying and travelling. Oh, wait, guess she’s VP of PARTYING! Yeah, makes sense.
I agree with much of what you have written. Beatrice’s lifestyle makes her a regular target for the DM while Eugenie’s lifestyle, with the same amount of wealth, is much more low key. A good comparison of sisters would be Paris and Nicki Hilton. Also, Beatrice’s lifestyle allows journalists to paint her as being an apple not falling far from the tree. However, Beatrice’s lifestyle is no different than the ideal rich of her aristo cousins and friends just more public.
She was in college when she found out/was informed. That’s plenty of time to realise she needed a career. They’re still very privileged, as I said in my original post re: nepotism.
However, she was going from holiday to holiday, supporting her boyfriend and using her title and position to advance his career and wealth. That should have been a red flag because she could have been doing that for herself and not her prospective future husband. Her parents failed her. She’s now an entry level VP whilst having no experience, background nor degree in finance. Had she been aware of her public image and, most importantly, cared, she could have taken steps to change the perception. She didn’t. Eugenie, on the other hand, got the memo and acted on it even if she does the same amount of partying and leads the same decadent life of a very wealthy aristo.
Helping her boyfriend schmooze rich investors by using her royal connections sounds A LOT like what Fergie did/still tries to do. That’s all Beatrice knows, it’s what she grew up with and what was modeled for her constantly, and is still being modeled for her today. I can understand how she thought that was what she was meant to be doing. Even if she shouldn’t have been, and even if she could have broken the cycle, it’s still difficult to forge your own path away from what your parents taught you to do. Especially if no one was really complaining to her about her behavior when she was doing the schmoozing. I’m not trying to stick up for her and if people want to challenge my assessment I’m fine with that and won’t try to argue I’m right, but it’s just another thing to consider.
@AmyToo – I think you make a good point. Beatrice was probably doing what was sanctioned and modeled for her and even what is the done thing in many circles. Perhaps Eugenie’s relative youth, personality or her more solid relationship with her now husband precluded her from taking this route. She does seem much more introverted and/or grounded than Beatrice.
MAndrew’s fall sort of reveals what most of us assume and that is that a circle of connected leeches leech off of pedigreed wealthy leeches who leech off of more powerful, wealthy and connected leeches. It’s not linear in any way shape or form but interwoven circles. This world is, of course, closed to the vast majority of us. However, it does exist.
If she’s worked consistently then I want a job at HER company because apparently it lets her take 6-10 vacations a year!
Eugenie has Jack, who has connections. And PR sense. So of course she’s not getting thrown to the wolves.
I agree, she has an outside network that has some clout. Bea only has the family, which is basically a snake eating it’s own tail right now.
Yep, this exactly.
Also Eug and Jack are connected to Clooneys… that is major benefit to clout and good PR.
Yeah, never forget she married a legit wealthy guy from a loaded family with aristo ties that go way back, further than the Windsors.
Aristo ties and Hollywood connects like Gerber baby Randy and George Clooney.
It’s easier for her to be low key now because she got to gloat her way through a three-day full on princess wedding. I feel bad for Beatrice.
Oh,Please. Most people I know have 3 day, or 4 day weddings. It’s the norm in my circle. Don’t be a party pooper because everyone you know has a simple 1 day wedding, then that’s it. I guess I’ve been to 20 or so “princess” weddings, then & hell, yeah – my wedding will be a multi day celebration of love. Wealthy people have wealthy weddings, there’s no point being envious. Beatrice and Eugenie aren’t directly living off taxpayer funds – like the others – they should be able to have the wedding of their dreams. The sisters’ taxpayer security was stopped years ago and is privately funded – this should be the same for the other ones too.
I’m still trying to sort out if this is a parody or not. In any case Andrew gets taxpayer money as he has no other job, so any part he paid of Eugenie’s wedding came from the taxpayer, even if through a few layers. The only part of that wedding not coming from the taxpayers was the part that the Brooksbank side paid.
@guest LOL quit with the poor shaming. It’s tacky and gross. Yet another nouveau riche asshole who doesn’t understand money can’t ever buy class.
But you might at least put in the effort and put some of your alleged wealth to etiquette classes.
“They believe their dad made a huge mistake in judgment ever being associated to Jeffrey Epstein”
Should read “They believe their dad made a huge mistake in having sex with an underage girl and then lying about it”
His crime is not merely his “association” with a pedo, it’s his own actions and refusal to acknowledge them.
IDK, I think it’s possible that B &E believe their father.
THIS!! ESPECIALLY for Eug, THIS should be her statement considering her patronage on anti-trafficking. Yet not one word for the victims. Not from ANY one of them.
If Eugenie is really doing the work on the anti trafficking charity, then she must know he’s participated in it. The information is there for everyone to see. At this point if she’s going to defend her father she needs to drop her association with the charity. It’s offensive otherwise.
If they say it that way, they are putting their Dad in harm’s way. If they say that, it’s like saying “yes our Dad is a rapist and we know and we are sad”
He’d be arrested immediately and their own lives, all of them, plus the royal firm, destroyed or very nearly destroyed.
They know. They just can’t and won’t say. It will hurt them all by extension. That’s why the Queen went horseback riding with Andrew in full view. She knows her son too. But she was telegraphing that she is protecting him and everyone needs to back off him as long as she is alive. The Royals bring in a lot of money for the economy. That was the Queen telling everyone to be careful what they do with regard to Andrew. Once she is gone however….Charles is a different story.
At least we’re getting closer to the actual thing they should be mad about though. It’s no longer just “they’re upset that their dad had the bad sense to do the interview.”
More and more I feel like this is the reason she established the anti-slavery collective….
Oh I strongly believe that to be the case too. As an attempt to rehabilitate the family image they disassociated themselves from Epstein and took this step to try and make the wrong, right.
She’s definitely proving herself smart by staying away from this mess, and her dad. I think Beatrice got thrown under the bus because she was involved in the interview disaster – to what extent or how or whether she approved or not is unclear, obviously, but it seems pretty well established that she was in the meeting about it. Eugenie stayed far away as far as we know.
Imagine what we don’t know.
Poor Eugenie has apparently never been to the Pizza Express in Woking. Sad.
I bet the Brooksbank family is not too keen to be tied to the royal house now with Jack’s father in law in a tsunami of a royal scandal. I think Jack was a factor in Eugenie’s low key appearance : Jack did an interview and was asked about Andrew’s mess and he gave a non answer. No doubt Eugenie and Jack had arguments about this. Eugenie was not going to toss out her marriage for her father.
I know this is UsWeekly, but “They believe their dad made a huge mistake in judgment ever being associated to Jeffrey Epstein”. AND THEIR MOTHER! Why is everyone forgetting Sarah was also very involved in Epstein’s world. Granted, she didn’t physically abuse trafficked girls like Andrew, but she’s definitely assisted Epstein in other ways, and supports Andrew by emotionally abusing trafficking victims coming forward.
Also, how about their dad is STILL making a huge mistake in judgment with being associated with Ghislaine Maxwell! He was meeting with her at Buckingham Palace as recently as this summer! She is absolutely a human trafficker who used and abused, trapped and threatened multiple girls and she is a disgusting person. But Andrew felt fine about blithely trumpeting his friendship with her on Newsnight!
So just with this there is a huge discordant note with Eugenie using her Princess status, connections, and media pull to work on an anti-trafficking initiative, while dear old dad is still dear friends with a major, thus far unindicted but all evidence suggests, human trafficker.
I still think Eugenie’s Anti-Slavery Collective is at least in part attempt to clean up the York family image – just like Andrew used his patronage of an anti-child abuse initiative as a shield in the Newsnight interview–‘what, me? No I support this charity!’ It could be a totally cynical move on Eugenie’s part. On the other hand, I think the two York daughters could be determinedly clueless as they have been raised in a bubble with their batty, greedy mother constantly shrieking that they are the happiest family in the world, and constantly shrieking that Prince Andrew is the most wonderful honourable man who ever lived.
But once you are pushing 30 it might be time to open your eyes to reality.
I don’t know if people are forgetting Fergie–but the very bad thing Andrew did was raping of a child, not so much the “association with Epstein.”
Bea is being thrown under the bus because she is a ginger.
Char, my ginger self is chortling!!
Wow. Many of you seem to give Eugenie the benefit of the doubt where I do not think it is warranted. Their father appears to , by all acounts feel very entitled and is very arrogant. B and E are adults. They can see how their father behaves with people. What kind of a man he is. They have known for a long time about the shady stuff that their parents get into. And, I do not believe that either Beatrice or Eugenie do not behave in like behavior.
We have seen very public York bashing of Meghan, Eugenie could have stopped most of it but instead participated. For example, remember how the York’s belittled Meghan and Harry’s wedding by saying how grand E’s was going to be and in the end was, implying E & JJ have more friends and how Eugenie made a big deal about saying shortly after H & M’s wedding that HER wedding was going to be plastic free (implying that the other was laden with plastic!). I also believe the emerald tiara story about Eugenie pulling a fit so Meghan could not wear a tiara of her choosing.
Between the two York women, I think that Beatrice is the more gullible and less adept one; and, that if Eugenie is not being thrown under the bus it is because she’s simply plays the game better.
Lol @ Eugenie “throwing a fit” over her wedding tiara. As if. You really think an actual Princess hadn’t picked out her very own wedding tiara, years before she actually got married and the wedding preparations were underway? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. They are both extremely close to their grandmother, she probably let Eugenie choose way before the engagement announcement. Eugenie has been serious with Jack for a decade. Besides, the emerald tiara really popped with her eyes. The gifted emerald earrings from her husband, Jack, complimented the tiara perfectly. I’m not buying that the Princess had to “pick” her tiara at the last minute, no way. Women who marry into the royal family don’t start out with the bigger tiaras anyway. Kate’s wedding tiara was small, then she upgraded with the other ones. If grown women marrying into an extremely wealthy family want to wear a specific tiara, perhaps they should start off with wearing their own heirloom family jewels. Oops, no can do. They don’t have any.
Sorry my post put a bee in your bonnet but an earlier tiara choice by Eugenie would not mean the story is not true. Perhaps the emerald tiara was offered by the queen and or Angela Kelly to Megan with the queen forgetting a prior commitment to Eugenie? Perhaps no such prior deal was ever made. Perhaps Angela Kelly alone was the one to select the tiaras to offer and did not know of E’s wishes. We do not know.
All we do know is it the Times reporter who said he had a source very close to the queen and who would know about the tiara choosing relayed the emerald tiara story to him. Also, Tatler, friend of the Cambridges, not only said that the story was true but that the emerald tiara in question was the one that Eugenie wore to her wedding.
Further, how do you explain Eugenie wearing the AYA earrings to the pre-Christmas dinner? About the double dating… like I said, Eugenie plays the game well.
@Guest, if it is all as cut and dried as you say, then said extremely wealthy family should have stated the tiara was reserved for Eugenie, end of story. Evidently somebody dropped the ball. But go ahead and blame Meghan. And what did the Duchess of Coatdress’ family tiara look like again? Oops, I guess she didn’t have one either.
I don’t know if B&E are petty and shady like that. I thought I read that E&J used to double date with Harry and Meghan before they were married and that Eugenie got along with them. I do believe that Andy and Fergie had the knives out for Meghan and Harry and are the source for some of the negative gossip. In my tinfoil tiara theory, I think Andy’s nose is out of joint because Harry got to marry the love of his life, while Andy got denied his wish to be with Koo Stark. There were lots of stories in the ’80 about Andy and Koo and how he wanted to marry her and the palace said oh h@ll no! So maybe in his petty mind, he’s getting revenge by feeding these some of these negative stories the press. At any rate he’s getting his due in spades with more to come hopefully.
Megan was very smart never to have done any nude scenes or photos. She was also successful and had a fantastic professional reputation.
Koo didn’t have much of a career and had done nude sex scenes. As someone who was around to have read the Koo gossip at the time, her naked pictures (with black bars across her nipples) were included in almost every story about her. Everyone did say how great a person she was.
Bea and Eugenie both have a reputation for cattiness. Way back when Will and Kate were just forever-dating, a fashion show, with assigned seating, invited Pippa. When Pippa & her friend got to their front-row seats, they found Bea and Eugenie occupying them.
Pippa politely pointed out their seating, but the Yorkies refused to move. So Pippa sat in the back to avoid a scene. I remember thinking that it was unbelievably petty.
I’m very surprised that it was Prince Andrew who initiated the royal charity to support the WIF sex trafficked women and not his daughter Eugenie!! And the timing is suspicious.
Quote from keytofreedom.org:
“The Key to Freedom project was founded in 2012, after The Duke of York visited India as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. On this trip His Royal Highness met Aloka Mitra, founder of WIF, and some of the young women and girls WIF had rescued. Additional visits have been made by Sarah, Duchess of York and Princess Eugenie.”
Mid 2011 he was forced to step down as UK trade envoy due to his Epstein connections. That was a scandal and a public humiliation for Andrew. It looks like in 2012 he set up this initiative and made Eugenie the spokeswoman just as a way of damage control to save his battered public reputation and strengthen the York brand. Was it a key to his own freedom??
So could it be that Eugenie has been doing anti sex slave charity work just to protect her father’s reputation/the York brand and not because of her deep personal conviction that modern slavery is an evil that should be abolished?
I like to believe she has a genuine interest to support this cause and give her the benefit of the doubt. It will be interesting to see if/how she continues this important charity work.