Regarding the current pile-on for Princess Beatrice and Eugenie, I think multiple things are happening at once. One, there’s genuine horror at all of this documentation between Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, and people are shocked by how many times Beatrice and Eugenie’s names come up. Two, it’s beyond clear that Prince William and his office are bullying the f–k out of Beatrice and Eugenie, and William in particular is exploiting the issues around Andrew and Fergie to scapegoat and punish his cousins. Three, it feels like the British press has figured out that they’re not going to get any pushback from anyone if they throw Beatrice and Eugenie right under the bus. So it’s settled then – B&E are personas non grata, they will be thrown out alongside their rotten parents, and there will be widespread gloating at their “downfall.” Speaking of:
Princess Beatrice and her sister Princess Eugenie have been left ‘bitterly disappointed’ after being told they would not be welcome at Royal Ascot this summer because of their parents’ links to Jeffrey Epstein, royal sources have revealed. Traditionally the two siblings would have attended the colourful gathering at the famous Berkshire racecourse, which is one of the highlights of the summer season, and would have been pictured sitting in the Royal Box with other senior royals.
Officials at Ascot describe the event – and in particular the spectacle of the King, Queen and members of the royal family in horse drawn carriages parading along the course – as a ‘timeless passage through heritage, memory and pride’.
In the past both Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, have been regulars at Ascot each summer and have been pictured with their royal cousins enjoying the fun day out on several occasions, but this year there will be no shared merriment – with the sisters feeling they are being made to pay for their father’s sins and being forced to lie low.
One royal source told the Daily Mail: ‘The York girls have been informed they can’t be there this year,’ while another source was even more direct: ‘Ascot is out of the question. The royals have been told they can’t be photographed with the girls for the rest of the year.’
Friends say the sisters have been ‘left drained’ by the bitter snub, which comes after both were named extensively in emails written by convicted sex offender and financier Jeffery Epstein, who committed suicide in a New York jail in 2019. But there is also embarrassment due to the fact their parents – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the former Duke of York and his ex wife and the girls’ mother Sarah Ferguson – have also been linked to Epstein.
According to Palace insiders, The Prince and Princess of Wales have already said that they will not attend ‘if any member of the York family are at Ascot this year’.
The source close to the York family said: ‘They’re deeply disappointed. They feel they’re being punished for their parents’ past actions, and that’s very difficult to accept.’
At this point, I actually think B&E need to take a page out of their mother’s book and get the hell out of there. Sarah has disappeared and no one knows where or when she’ll pop up again. This is the time for Eugenie to formally move to Portugal and/or get a job with a different gallery or auction house somewhere outside of the UK. Beatrice needs to figure out where she could conceivably go – I guess she could live in America, or maybe Canada, who knows. But they would be wise to think about permanent exit strategies, because this isn’t going to stop any time soon. While I think they’re probably hurt to be banned from Ascot, the larger issue is that the Windsors still control the flow of invitations within the UK. Not only that, but the Windsors control the narratives in the UK. Time to leave!
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If they want to go to Ascot they can just buy tickets or ask a sponsor for tickets. I really don’t get all the agita over this. That said, it’s time for them to take an extended leave to avoid being thrown under the bus constantly. Eugenie has a house in Portugal and Edo inherited a villa in Italy, so they both have easy options.
I agree that they should leave. They may not want to because there will be calls for them to be stripped of their titles if they do.
That threat to “strip the titles” is ridiculous because from what I can tell they don’t even think they can actually get a vote to take Andy’s away from what I’ve read and Peggy’s constant need to be publicly punishing family members is a mental health issue he needs to address, and yes they should get out of the Peggy controlled media in the uk.
I feel like I keep saying this every time the titles come up. But can’t William just write an LP and take their hrh princess titles? They don’t have duchess titles which is the one that would need parliament. So parliament actually has nothing to do with their titles. Am I misunderstanding?
@Hypocrisy and @Jais: I think it’s well known amongst the press that it’s takes an act of parliament to strip titles but the public doesn’t. The press calls for the stripping of titles to muddy the waters and to manipulate the public.
Sorry their hrh princess stylings as opposed to titles. Do the sisters even have titles technically then or just stylings? Sorry I feel like I’m confusing things for everyone. But I thought the hrh styling can be removed by the monarch through a written LP. Which also takes the styling of princess away.
An interesting discovery from the Andrew scandal is that the title of Prince and Princess is not an automatic and absolute birthright but bestowed solely by the George V Letters Patent, hence why Charles could so easily remove it (same as the HRH styling); a dukedom is an entirely different entity in that it becomes the legal property of the holder once bestowed and an Act of Parliament is the only mechanism for removal, and part of that process would involve an open debate in parliament where MPs could say whatever they like about the title holder and, in Andrew’s case, would be disastrous for the royal family if certain MPs took the opportunity to divulge many of the open secrets about him and other members of the family. It’s why Charles made such a big deal – aided by the press – to present removal of the dukedom from the Rolls of the Peerage as the ultimate punishment for Andrew when, in fact, it was a falsehood and he’s still legally Duke of York.
It’s why, in my opinion, that William will not remove the Sussex dukedom because a) using the removal from the Rolls method will expose the fact that Harry would still legally be Duke of Sussex and Archie eventually inherit after, and b) he will not want to see MPs publicly debating the issue with the wider implications in parliament.
That being said, William will remove the HRH and Prince/Princess from Harry, Archie, Lilibet, Beatrice and Eugenie once he’s king and Charles knows this and, I think, will not strip his nieces and leave the dirty work for William.
@mads, that is my belief as well. They will remain the duke and Duchess of Sussex and Archie can inherit that title. Bc parliament will not be involved in removing anything. But William will write an LP stripping away the hrh stylings from Harry, Archie, Lili and the York sisters. It will be at the top of his agenda as king. So then one day, they will be known as just Harry, Lili and Archie at some point with no Prince or Princess stylings, but still with Harry and Meghan as the duke and Duchess of Sussex. And I think Harry and Meghan are aware that that will most likely happen.
@Mads right, that’s been pretty well known for years outside of andrew. Meghan referenced it in the Oprah interview and its partly why the late queen issued new LP before george was born, making all of william’s children HRH even if his father wasn’t king yet.
i think William will issue new LP the day he becomes king, stripping HRH from the Sussexes, and then not understand the blowback.
There are already calls for them to lose their titles. Nothing will stop Willy and company from a decades long smear campaign. The York sisters have to look at what happened to the Sussexes and realize the Windsors will never stop smearing them to cover their own failings. The Sussexes are better off out of Windsor control and the Yorks will also be better off on their own rather than grubbing for crumbs in exchange for being scapegoated.
Yes they should take cover because Peg the incandescent is having a field day right now with them. I think that of the two sisters Eugenie will fare better. I’m sure Harry will help her in any way that he can. He knows the depths of Pegs hate and incandescent rages. Take a page out of Harry’s book Eugenie and save yourself!
It’s not even just about saving themselves. Precedent has been set. They can absolutely thrive elsewhere. No modern society is going to be cool with their parents associations with Epstein or ongoing shady dealings with human trafficking regimes, so they have work to do to rehab their images, but they will mostly be welcomed and adored around the globe if they move somewhere and work in arts or philanthropy and embrace their new country. Everyone loves the fantasy of princesses.
GAWD two more refugees from the BRF setting up glamorous lives elsewhere would be SO delicious.
I think the real pain comes from the rejection of their family. We know that the family in this case equals the Firm, but I cannot imagine how this feels for them.
I agree. This is their cousin, uncle etc they have known all their lives. Charles needs to make a clear statement if he wants to protect them then let William drift in the wind over it.
Punishing the girls as low hanging fruit because they aren’t willing to do what’s necessary with Andrew. Cheap and cowardly behavior as usual.
Of course both sisters also could stick it out in London, live well and show they have nothing to be ashamed of and show how petty and vile Scooter and Kant are. Speak on the record instead of all this briefing, wish the royals well and demonstrate you are the grownups and have your own priorities that don’t depend on where you sit at a horse race or garden party.
I’m not sure if the sisters have nothing to be afraid of. The York money trail is showing both sisters (as adults) receiving direct wire payments from offshore bank accounts set up by Andrew’s crony David Rowland. Andrew invited Rowland into Andrew’s trade envoy meetings so he could use inside info to profit and keep the ill gottens gains offshore for them both. A thorough audit of the whole York family is needed but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
While I’m not a fan of Will’s, I think he knows more than he’s discussing aloud.
Leaving also means thinking about where they want their kids to go to school bc that will factor in. Plus they seem to have a wide social circle. Will that dry up? Idk,
Maybe. So I don’t know that they will leave. But they should def take a vacay during Ascot.
Exactly, Mac. These are grown-ass women, not girls. They are fully capable of managing their own lives without the direction from or commentary of the British royal family or media. Their parents were clearly despicable but that doesn’t mean they will be as well. Unless they choose to be.
The point is, they get to choose their path. The beauty of being an adult in the wild.
I think it primarily the wails doing the banning.
This makes it sound like they are more upset about being banned at Ascot than the fact that their parents maintained close ties for years with a notorious sex trafficker and their father availed himself of the trafficker’s services. If true, YIKES! Why would they even want to go to Ascot after all this?
Agree, Brassy Rebel.
If B&E are obsessing over Ascot, their priorities are wildly screwed up. They have bigger problems on their hands.
They should get the hell out of Dodge.
I’m trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. They are probably struggling with their parents crimes which were normalized for them since birth. Are they more upset about Ascot? Well, it’s a huge public humiliation for them. Of course they could go on their own and whatnot, but their lives are not ours. If one of us were told we couldn’t come to a family wedding being held in a public space, sure we could still go but we’ve been told we’re not wanted and we’d feel the scorn for showing up anyway.
They are . . . in a bad place. But mygawd they have a cousin living the LIFE on the California coast in a house – so we’re told – with plenty of room for guests. That’s all I’d need to know if I were them.
I think they’re upset about it, because even though in the scheme of what’s going on in their lives this should be minuscule, but this type of royalist stuff clearly did matter to them. And they thought that they were playing the game. But, I don’t understand why they put any faith in William? They were never as popular or will liked as Harry, and look what he’s done to his own brother as far as turning the public ( or some portions of it) against him.
William cares about himself firstly, and then he cares about other people in relation to how they make him look after that. If throwing you under the bus makes him look good great, if defending you make him look good great. That’s why he goes back and forth with how he treats his wife.
I agree, they need to get out of there. Doesn’t seem like their standing has taken much of a hit on the European continent, and in the middle east. They will still get invites to parties, and events solely because of who their grandmother was. There’s plenty of people who are ” nobles and royals” from countries that haven’t had a monarchy in a hundred to 150 years, and still get treated like they are special. A key example is Beatrice’s own husband. And besides that given what happened at the Commonwealth service yesterday it’s not like being in the UK as a royal is all sunshine and rainbows right now anyway.
“But I don’t know why they put any faith in William?” Exactly. Idk if they will leave though.
They watched what William did to Harry and still kissed assed, showed up to all the carol concerts, and petty shows of family unity to get in good with William and where are they now?
“Playing the game” meant going along with whatever Elizabeth wanted – and she wanted Andrew to be untouchable. And with the departure of H&M, the game became “who will be the new working royal.” Now the game is who can run away the fastest – either physically, like Sarah, or by throwing others under the bus, like William.
Take a look at the wording – it’s back to front, putting the major Epstein ‘blame’ on B&E.
The article say that B&E are mentioned in emails and then goes on to say “But there is also embarrassment due to the fact their parents – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the former Duke of York and his ex wife and the girls’ mother Sarah Ferguson – have also been linked to Epstein.”
Use of ‘also’ after putting B&E first means that B&E played a major part in the Epstein business and it caused AMW & Fergie to be dragged into it. From everything i have read this is the opposite of what happened.
It seems to me it’s worded so B&E can be thrown to the wolves and everyone will figure they know why and the RF is justified in whatever behaviour they exhibit towards B&E.
There is nothing that epitomizes the strange deeply silly Royal life as leaving a country because you weren’t invited to sit in a box at a horse show….Sorry, but there’s just something so evocative of the existential problem of modern “Royalty” in this situation that I find really fascinating. The stakes are soo very low, so wtf to anyone else’s struggles in life. But, from a “Royal” perspective, it’s devastating, huge.
Yes, I feel bad for the York sisters because it is the “life” that they exist in. But, still….
Right. Reminds me of the quote from Henry Kissinger when teaching at Harvard. He said the in-fighting in academia is so intense because the stakes are so low.
So cozying up to the likes of Piers Morgan and the odious Clarkson did not end up saving them from bad press. Hope they learned their lesson.
Pegs is going to get just what he dreamed of- a monarchy of just him and his nuclear family .
He’s too dumb to realize more work and more focus on his inability are going to follow.
Be careful what you wish for.
I agree, William best be careful of what he wishes for. Also, he’s alienating so many family members I don’t doubt one of them will write a memoir or something like that, especially when he pulls funding.
Oh boo hoo. These women need to seek meaning elsewhere. To the extent any of this is accurate, the need to constantly assure themselves of their continued status and access to their perks is not far off from how their mother landed in the shits with Epstein for years. This idea that they are “entitled” to any of this is based entirely on who their family is, and that does in fact work both ways.
I would love to see them going to Ascot and mingling with the crowd, keep W & K away. William doesn’t have the authority to ban them, that would be up to the King.
The press and the Palace have found their new scapegoats.
Yet again, how lucky, blessings are sometimes disguised. How fortunate that H&M got the heck out of dodge when they did!!!!!!
Is this family unable to function without having a family member to throw under the bus, at all times?
I think you hit the nail on the head. Whenever hasnt it been like this? At least dating back to the wife who elizabeths uncle abdicated for..
I don’t necesarily agree with them being uninvited etc, but pretty soon the only people at christmas under 80 will just be will + kate and maybe zara + mike, and I doubt will and kate spend any time together. good time to phase the whole thing out.
Who cares about frickin Ascot when their parents were close buddies with a child trafficking pedo. Both of them need to wise up and see the real world. They are so use to grifting and thinking about me me me! I hope Harry and Meghan give those two a wide berth and tell them to keep away from Montecito. I believe both of them knew exactly what their parents were doing with Epstein. When those two were cut off from working for the royal family as part of Charles plan to shrink the monarchy they both should have got a clue and moved on with their lives. Due to their father’s and mother huge ego they stayed on excepting the dregs from the monarchy hoping that Charles would one day change his mind. I have no pity for them whatsoever. For them trading on their closeness to the royal family trumps their dignity. Do they care about what their father did to those girls on Epstein island. It’s all about poor me I can’t go to Ascot and be seen with the royal family.
They probably realised when the rest of the world found out, after all, what child wants to believe that the father is a paedo.
I think that B&E’s refusal to allow Will to audit their finances set him off. Maybe they just thought, “it’s none of his damn business,” or maybe they were worried about what might turn up. Whatever the reason, it was a bad look at a time when bad looks can get you sh*t-canned.
Speaking of Andrew and family, here is a link to a great read – informative and insightful review in London Review of Books:
Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) Bestselling author of Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious. Commented on Bluesky:
“The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and “class” and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/andrew-o-hagan/stay-classy
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
by Andrew Lownie.
Collins, 456 pp., £22, August 2025, 978 0 00 877545 2
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
Doubleday, 367 pp., £25, October 2025, 978 1 5299 8524 5
I think they should both permanently decamp to Europe, Portugal and Italy. They’ve spent years partying and vacationing with their European friends and there’s probably a lot of good will for them. Heck, Prince Albert might welcome them to Monaco. Speaking of….he’s not been mentioned in the Epstein files has he?