King Charles is ‘repeating Andrew mistake with Beatrice and Eugenie’ | Royal | News
Beatrice and Eugenie largely excluded from royal events (Image: Getty)
Royal biographer Andrew Lownie says the King’s decision to exclude Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie from this weekend’s Easter service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor is a sign that “the Royal Family is repeating the mistakes it made with Andrew when it comes to Beatrice and Eugenie”. Lownie says King Charles has been sending “mixed signals” regarding the York brothers in recent weeks.
Although the names of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are mentioned hundreds of times in the latest documents published by the US Department of Justice, there is no allegation that they were involved in any crime. However, Lownie notes: Lownie Report Substack the sisters were excluded from some royal events, but not others: “They were banned from Royal Ascot, they were banned from Easter, and then suddenly they started coming to Ascot.”
There is a suggestion that William and Charles had different ideas about the Yorks (Image: Getty)
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He adds that the mixed signals coming from the palace may be the result of a power struggle going on behind the scenes. He explains: “Tom Sykes pointed out that the Easter ban showed the King’s power declining in the face of an increasingly dominant William. This may be the case, but if so, then isn’t he repeating the mistakes of his father and grandmother?”
In contrast to Beatrice and Eugenie’s “half in, half out” status, their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor remains completely alone. He is expected to spend a lonely Easter Sunday in his modest new flat on the Sandringham estate.
Last year Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson joined King Charles and Queen Camilla at St George’s Chapel for an Easter Sunday service.
The Prince and Princess of Wales missed last year’s event and instead chose to spend the weekend in Norfolk with their children. They also did not attend the Easter celebrations in 2024, which came just a week after Kate posted an emotional video message announcing that she had started a course of preventative chemotherapy.
Andrew finds himself out in the cold (Image: Getty)
Andrew is unlikely to make a public appearance at today’s traditional ceremony in the 15th-century chapel. It also seems unlikely that he will take part in another trip to Windsor with the King, Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Beatrice and Eugenie’s mother, Sarah Ferguson, also finds herself out in the cold. He has all but disappeared from public view in recent weeks as he has been “couch surfing” at the homes of famous and wealthy friends around the world.
While rumors have circulated that Sarah has been staying with various celebrities, including ex-boyfriend Paddy McNally and long-time friend Priscilla Presley, her exact whereabouts have remained unclear over the past few months. She was last seen in public on 12 December 2025, arriving at St James’s Palace for the christening of her granddaughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi.
Sarah Ferguson disappeared from public view (Image: Getty)
Royal expert Matt Wilkinson told HELLO!: “He went to Northern Ireland. He went to a spa there. He went to Verbier. He stayed in a chalet that Paddy McNally, an old friend, lent him.” Royal Right podcast.
Meanwhile, Beatrice and Eugenie looked fine and “in good shape” at a party in the Cotswolds last month, but their mother is reportedly looking increasingly disheveled and worn out by her recent travails, according to Vogue writer Plum Sykes.
