Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie Have Not Abandoned Their Exiled Father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
After King Charles stripped his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of his regal titles and evicted him from his massive Royal Lodge estate, the ex-prince moved more than 100 miles away to a smaller, more modest home in Norfolk.
With very few visitors and no sign of either of his daughters dropping by, it appeared that Andrew was living out his days in exile. There have also been reports that Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were no longer on speaking terms with their father amid the fallout of Andrew’s association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
However, one royal expert says that’s not the case.
Duncan Larcombe, author of Prince Harry: The Inside Story, and former Royal Editor of The Sun, gave The Mirror his take, opining, “I think they’re a close-knit family and ultimately, family is stronger than anything else. So I don’t personally, from my experience of dealing with them all, the Yorks, I don’t think that [Beatrice and Eugenie] will exorcise their parents because of the media. They’re trying to keep their distance at this time because they don’t want to be associated with it, frankly.”
Larcombe also doubts that Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah Feguson, will be staying away from him forever, either, saying, “My personal hunch is that it’s a public relations move. I don’t think she’s any nearer ditching Andrew than she ever was and her links to Epstein might have been different from Andrew’s but they were still strong and so in In other words, it would be pretty … hypocritical if she just said ‘Oh how dare you be friends with a man like that’ when clearly she’s been a friend of the man like that.”
