A posh address goes a long way – in business, branding and status. And they don’t come much posher than Kensington or St James’s Palace. But that’s a privilege that the York sisters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, enjoy thanks to a long-standing deal struck with Buckingham Palace.
Their now disgraced father, no longer a prince and shunned by the royals, always pushed for his daughters to be treated as if they were senior working members of the Royal family – which they are not and never have been. Understandably, their grandmother, the late Queen, wanted the best for them and they were allotted a four-bedroom apartment in the grand surroundings of St James’s Palace.
When Eugenie married in 2018, she and her husband Jack Brooksbank were allowed to move into Ivy Cottage, in the grounds of Kensington Palace. Both women, and their husbands, still use their posh addresses as a London bolt hole. But the rent they pay remains a closely guarded secret. As far as Buckingham Palace is concerned, it is a private family matter.
That’s as may be, but in the wake of the Epstein files, things have changed. The revelation that Andrew was paying only a peppercorn rent for the mansion from which he has now been evicted, has provoked calls for full disclosure about royal finances. The Palace will argue that it is unrealistic to compare market rates with what could be charged for accommodation within the precincts of a royal palace. Security issues mean that only a few people would be eligible as tenants. Fair enough. We can understand that. So, how much are the Princesses paying? We do know that the rent goes back to the Sovereign Grant to help fund the maintenance of royal residences, and so it’s pertinent to the public purse. But we are not going to be told how much.
Following the scandal that has engulfed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, pressure is growing for Beatrice and Eugenie to speak up — at least offering support to Epstein’s victims — and to explain what they knew about their parents’ finances and friendships. But they have remained silent.
Whether it’s justified or not, the Princesses have been tarnished by their parents’ appalling behaviour and subsequent disgrace. The King is said to be fond of his nieces, but his priority now must be to protect the reputation of the monarchy. Rightly or wrongly, including Beatrice and Eugenie in public events will be interpreted in some quarters as misguided support for their father, Andrew.
The York women have a lot to be grateful for. They are both happily married to successful businessmen. They have beautiful homes: Beatrice in the Cotswolds and Eugenie in Portugal. They have children to care for and careers to pursue. Do they really need the trappings of royalty? And don’t they care about embarrassing the King?
Why not quietly stop using their titles and the privileges that go with them? What’s wrong with being plain Mrs Beatrice Mapelli Mozzi and Mrs Eugenie Brooksbank? If they need a London base, then rent one somewhere other than in Palace grounds.
And they could do their Uncle Charles a favour by having unavoidable family engagements elsewhere at Easter and Christmas, rather than seeking the limelight by being on parade with the royals at Windsor or Sandringham.
Beatrice and Eugenie must be feeling the heat of the headlines that are now focusing on them. But they have an easy choice: get out of the kitchen. They don’t have official roles and they are perfectly capable of standing on their own two feet. They might earn some public respect if they did just that.
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