You have to love the Firm. Barely three months ago, and in true Corleone style, the (royal) Family made Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie an offer they couldn’t refuse. Spend Christmas in Sandringham with us, they said, but don’t bring those increasingly toxic and Epstein-tainted parents, Andrew and Fergie. After all, to paraphrase Brando’s Vito Corleone, a princess who doesn’t spend time with her extended family can never be a real princess. Beatrice and Eugenie yielded. They spent Christmas at Sandringham. They remained loyal to the Family and to the royal omertà. And now? Badabing badaboom! They’re out!
Yes, according to “well-placed sources”, The Mail on Sunday has revealed that the princesses have been axed from this summer’s Royal Ascot procession, that the Prince and Princess of Wales are now determined to keep Beatrice and Eugenie “at arm’s length” and that this difficult situation is likely to last “for the rest of the year” or at least until all that nasty Epstein business blows over (2039? 2055?). “It’s nothing personal,” William is alleged to have said, in my head at least, while firmly holding Beatrice and Eugenie’s faces in his terrifyingly powerful hands. “It’s strictly business!”
