Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will reportedly not celebrate Christmas with the royal family at Sandringham this year.
According to Hello! magazine, Beatrice, 36, and Eugenie, 34, will be spending the holidays with their respective inlaws. This will be the first time the royals will spend the holiday season away from their royal family members since their respective weddings.
Beatrice has been married to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi since July 2020. The couple share daughter Sienna, 3, and are currently expecting baby number two. (Edoardo, 41, is also a father to 8-year-old Wolfie, whom he shares with ex-fiancée Dara Huang.)
Eugenie, for her part, wed Jack Brooksbank in 2018. The pair are the parents of sons August, 3, and Ernest, 18 months.
Prince Andrew is finding comfort in visits from his children and grandchildren after recent reports that his brother King Charles III cut him off financially. Andrew, 64, has been spotted helping his three-year-old granddaughter, Sienna Mapelli Mozzi, learn to ride horses, Hello! reported on Sunday, November 24. The outlet noted that Sienna’s mother, Princess Beatrice, […]
Beatrice and Eugenie — the daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson — have traditionally spent Christmas at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England with King Charles III and other members of the royal family. The only time the princesses did not attend was in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Independent previously reported that Beatrice and Eugenie’s parents will also not be spending Christmas at Sandringham. The news came shortly after reports surfaced of Andrew’s alleged connection to a businessman accused of being a Chinese spy.
In a December 14 statement to BBC, the Duke of York, 64, claimed that he “ceased all contact” with the individual. Andrew’s office further claimed that Andrew met the man “through official channels” and “nothing of a sensitive nature [was] ever discussed.”
According to the outlet, the alleged spy — who has been referred to as H6 — was previously banned from the U.K. in 2023 following security court proceedings. Judges were told that H6 allegedly tried to gain Andrew’s influence and was subsequently invited to his birthday party in 2020.
Dave Benett/Getty Images Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are experiencing “the best of both worlds” with current roles within the royal family. “The princesses have been quietly getting on with supporting all these charities for some time. But they also have lives outside of the family,” a source told Hello! Magazine in a report published […]
Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy in the U.K. denied the espionage claim. “Some individuals in the U.K. are always eager to fabricate baseless ‘spy’ stories targeting China,” a spokesperson said in a statement to the BBC.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on Andrew’s latest scandal since he is a non-working royal. In 2020, Andrew was stripped of his title by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and forced to take a step back from his official duties and patronages after he was sued for sexual misconduct. Andrew denied the allegations. In 2022, Prince Andrew settled the lawsuit out of court.
While Andrew is no longer a working member of the royal family, Beatrice has taken on some extra responsibilities. Last month, she stepped in for Charles, 75, when she attended The King’s Foundation’s Future Textiles exhibition in London. During the event, she met with the foundation’s executives and several students.