The Duke of Sussex will feel “a lot of sympathy” for his cousins given the ongoing scandal involving their father, according to a royal expert, who also claims Meghan may want to stay out of Meghan’s view.
As the royal family continues to reel from one of its biggest scandals in decades, the Duke of Sussex is said to be “very concerned” about his cousins, princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. The sisters, 37 and 35, have been dragged into the storm surrounding their parents’ links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence for sex trafficking.
King Charles, 76, has begun a formal process to remove Prince Andrew’s titles, with the former duke, 65, now being known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, 66, has also lost her duchess title amid the latest allegations about their friendship with the disgraced financier – and the pair will be evicted from their home on the Windsor estate. The fallout has left their daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie – who will retain their titles – caught in the crossfire.
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According to royal expert Duncan Larcombe, California-based Prince Harry, 41, will have huge sympathy for his cousins, who have always had a “massive soft spot” for him. “Harry has always been close to Beatrice and Eugenie,” says Duncan. “They didn’t see a massive amount of each other growing up because they didn’t live very close to each other, but they’d always get together for Christmas at Sandringham.”
However, according to Duncan, the 44-year-old Duchess of Sussex may have a different opinion of the situation. There is a disconnect between Meghan and him, he claims. At Beatrice’s 18th birthday, the pair were photographed together because the Jeffrey Epstein situation is “extremely sensitive, especially in America,” according to Weinstein, “and of course Epstein.”
Meghan will be very aware of the sensitivities because she is very media-conscious. She will keep her distance because she doesn’t want to be portrayed as too sympathetic toward them. She might not object to Harry supporting them privately, but they will appear on completely different pages, in my opinion.
He believes that the Sussexes will be “unified on one issue.” Harry and Meghan will not want to appear to be Sarah Ferguson or Andrew Ferguson. Meghan might see it as a commercial thing, but Harry might see it as an emotional one.
Sarah Ferguson is no longer a duchess, as a result of Andrew’s surrender of his Duke of York title last month. He made the announcement days before Virginia Giuffre, one of the most well-known accusers of Epstein and Maxwell and the girl in the now-infamous photo that sparked Andrew’s fall from grace, made the announcement.
Six months after Virginia committed suicide, an allegation in Nobody’s Girl claimed that she had three sexual encounters with Andrew after Maxwell and her husband Maxwell introduced her to him in 2001.
In a statement about his Duke of York title, Andrew said “the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family ” and that he would therefore “no longer use” the title. He also stressed that he “vigorously” denied all the accusations against him.
Then last week, that was followed by a statement from Buckingham Palace that read, “His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
He has been given legal protection to remain in residence as a result of his lease on Royal Lodge. He will move to another private accommodation after receiving a formal notice to renounce the lease.
Prince William had also been caught up in the controversy, with reports that he tried to use Beatrice and Eugenie’s own royal titles as leverage to get them to encourage their father to move out of Royal Lodge.
In a bid to persuade Andrew to leave, William “put a little pressure” on the two sisters, according to journalist Emily Maitlis, who conducted the Newsnight interview with Andrew in 2019 and insisted that he had never met Virginia Giuffre.
They are currently permitted to be princesses, but there was some pressure, as she explained in a conversation on her News Agents podcast.
Kensington Palace denied that a meeting took place and told the Daily Mirror that it was erroneous to suggest William had the authority to remove anyone’s titles.
Harry, who resigned as a working royal in 2020, is more sympathetic to Beatrice and Eugenie, who find themselves caught between the royal family’s working members and their parents, in Duncan’s opinion.
He claims that he will feel a lot of sympathy for Eugenie and Beatrice because they are victims of the House of York’s horrifying unraveling. Their parents’ involvement in the press for all the wrong reasons is not their fault, but it also places them under enormous pressure.
Beatrice was one of the few members of the royal family who kept in touch with Harry and supported him in making his own decisions when he traveled to America.
Harry will be very concerned about their behavior and how they are handling the situation. Harry will understand how painful the family’s apparent implosion is because they are very, very publicly imploding, which makes it especially painful for those affected by the fallout.
Source: Mirror
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