Princess Eugenie risks royal backlash over Middle East business event after Andrew scandal
King Charles has felt responsible for Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie since their parents were disavowed due to their historic links with Jeffrey Epstein. Reports claim Beatrice in particular is struggling to cope with the stress caused by the public disclosure of the Epstein Files.
He’s been paying their subsidised rent on their royal second homes: Eugenie’s three-bed property in Kensington Palace and Beatrice’s flat in St James’s Palace.
Charles has also invited the sisters to high-profile events like Royal Ascot, supported their attendance at his nephew Peter Phillips’s recent wedding and he publicly supported Eugenie by having the Palace officially announce her third pregnancy.
So King Charles may well feel let down by Eugenie, 35, as just weeks after he openly congratulated her on her pregnancy she was spotted at the sort of Middle East-backed function ’Air Miles Andy’ would have attended in a heartbeat.
Reports have even claimed the King felt "jarred" by photos of Eugenie leaving Mayfair members’ club Oswald’s on Tuesday with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, after attending a dinner party for Dubai-based Discovery Dunes.
In her defence the function for ’Dubai’s first private members-only golf residential community for families’ was an important one for Jack, 40 - and it was three weeks ago.
He works in marketing and sales for Discovery Land Company, who are helping to develop the multi-million-dollar luxury community.
Eugenie herself has extensive business and social ties to the Middle East and was reportedly spotted with her mother, Sarah Ferguson, in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year.
However, royal insiders say the timing of the public appearance, after she had rarely been seen out for months, has "blotted her copybook".
It was "exactly the kind of project her father, whose love of golf, money and the UAE apparently had no bounds, would have once become involved with."
The National Audit Office report regarding royal property has recently shone a spotlight on King Charles’s protection and support of both his nieces - so in the future he will hope both will keep their heads down.
Earlier this year it was claimed Prince William requested his two cousins undergo an independent financial and ethical audit to ensure no reputational risk linked to their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - or in the past, Jeffrey Epstein.
But royal biographers said they declined this request, sparking frustration as the Prince and Princess of Wales seek to restore the family’s public image.
Both Beatrice and Eugenie need to think long and hard about what they have and who ensured they keep it.
And they must make sure they show King Charles his trust was not misplaced.
Technology & Business Editor
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