Prince Andrew’s family held an emergency summit to discuss their role in the royal family now that he lost his titles. However, one person was noticeably absent in the mix: Princess Eugenie.
Sources told the Daily Mail that Prince Andrew, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and Princess Beatrice held a summit at the Royal Lodge to “discuss the changes and assess what the family’s future looked like in the face of such scandal.” Beatrice arrived at her parents’ residence alone.
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“The Royal Lodge ‘summit’ wasn’t a happy occasion and the family, once a strong unit, is fractured,” a royal insider told the Daily Mail of Eugenie’s absence.
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The meeting itself took a toll on Princess Beatrice. “She was on the phone saying she couldn’t bring herself to look at the Sunday papers,” a royal source told the outlet. “She looked absolutely devastated.”
Sources revealed that Princess Beatrice and Eugenie didn’t know about their father’s plans in advance. Prince Andrew was reportedly “bounced into agreeing a statement” without first discussing it with his daughters.
With the loss of his titles, the royal family is pressuring Fergie and Prince Andrew to vacate According to the News Agents podcast hosted by Emily Maitlis, who conducted Prince Andrew’s infamous BBC interview that saw him lose his status as a working royal, William potentially threatened his cousins, with the removal of their titles if their father doesn’t give up his lease.
According to Maitlis (via the Daily Beast), “the Palace told ITN and the Press Association—the big wire services—to crew the gates outside Royal Lodge at 8 p.m. because, and this was the phrase they used, ‘there may be passing traffic.’ Nothing more was said — just that there may be passing traffic,” on Thursday.
She also added, “There was a question over whether there had been, earlier in the day, a meeting between Prince William and the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie saying, ‘You’ve got to get your dad to move out of Royal Lodge, otherwise we will start re-examining the state of your own titles.’ They are, at the moment, allowed to be princesses, but there was pressure being put on them. Obviously, you can see why Andrew, as a father, would want to keep his daughters happy and keep their titles in place.”
It also comes after reports from The Sun that Andrew had laid out a series of demands in order to vacate his home. He is said to want Frogmore Cottage, which used to be the home of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, as a new home for himself. Not just that, he also wants Sarah Ferguson, who lives with him at Royal Lodge, to be able to live in Adelaide Cottage,
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