It’s hard to feel any sympathy for two young women who were born into immense privilege and live lives of monied leisure. However, today you might feel the smallest of twinges for Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Nobody, after all, can help their parents, and the sins of the father should never be visited on the children. What sins, though. And what a father. With Prince Andrew’s removal from public life surely permanent, his daughters are in an awkward limbo: princesses with no royal role, and a toxic father who, while not admitting liability, has just agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement in a sexual assault case.
“It is challenging to start off feeling very royal and end up less so,” a royal insider once said. “And you can’t overestimate how hard it is being the child of Prince Andrew and Fergie.”
