King Charles sends ‘blunt message’ to Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie amid Andrew scandal | Royal | News
King Charles has made clear to his nieces Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie that they need to “get back on their feet” following a financial overhaul and the latest Andrew Mountbatten Windsor scandal, a royal writer has claimed. Writer Robert Jobson has weighed in on the King’s efforts since his accession to the throne in 2022 to “make changes he hopes will keep the monarchy healthy for future generations.”
These changes include making non-working members of the Firm, such as Beatrice and Eugenie, pay their own payments to prevent them from using royal residences as “subsidized accommodation”. Parts of Mr. Jobson’s book, The Windsor Legacy, MailIt is claimed that one of the things that angered the monarch the most was that, as he told his friends, the Palace was “run like a hotel and it wasn’t a very good hotel.”
A source said: “Everything will change over time. In the future, properties will be rented at commercial rates and to people outside the family. What happens in the palace environment will of course be examined for security purposes.”
Another added: “The King doesn’t run a housing association for distant relatives.”
Princess Beatrice lives in a farmhouse in the Cotswolds with her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and their children; but he divides his time between this and a state-funded flat at St James’s Palace in London.
Her sister Eugenie divides her time between Portugal and England with her husband Jack Brooksbank.
While in the UK, Andrew’s younger daughter, Mountbatten-Windsor, lives at Ivy Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace.
Their father, Andrew, was officially stripped of all his titles and honors after the King issued a Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm published by the Crown Office in The Gazette, the United Kingdom’s official public record.
The former prince has agreed to leave the Royal Lodge and is set to move to the King’s private Sandringham estate in Norfolk as he begins his internal exile in the new year.
