Princess Eugenie revealed one of the thoughtful gestures made by the late Queen Elizabeth while appearing alongside her sister Beatrice on a podcast.
Lessons From Our Mothers is hosted by Cressida Bonas and her half-sister Isabella Branson.
During the episode, the princesses talked about their mother Sarah Ferguson, about being parents themselves now, and about their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
While discussing her memories of the late Queen, Eugenie, 35, opened up about how thoughtful the monarch was.
She said: ‘I remember once we were staying for the Summer holidays. I loved looking at the food magazines that she kept, and I remember showing her this trout avocado salad that looked really delicious.’
Eugenie continued: ‘The next day or the next week, there was a trout avocado salad at lunch…it was the attention to detail, the thoughtfulness.
‘She thought of that, remembered, and thought how nice that would be for me.’
Mother-of-two Eugenie added that she thinks about her grandmother ‘so much more now than when she was here’.
The royal sisters are pictured with their late grandmother (pictured L-R: Princess Eugenie; Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Beatrice)
The royal explained: ‘I talk about all the time, the memories, and it brings you to tears thinking about all the joy that she created for so many people.’
She continued: ‘Gone are the days of people and women like my grandmother, because she really did show up all the time.
‘I think now it’s so easy for people to cancel, so easy people to say no […] and people living such transient lives.
‘So […] to uphold those values that she stood by – I’m honoured that a piece of her lives on through me to be able to do that.’
During the episode, the royal sisters also spoke about their approach to being mothers.
Princess Beatrice, 36, shares daughters Sienna Elizabeth, three, and Athena Elizabeth Rose, three months, with her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. She is also stepmother to Edoardo’s son from his relationship with Dara Huang, Wolfie.
During the podcast, Princess Eugenie (pictured, right) discussed how Queen Elizabeth II (pictured, left) was thoughtful and paid attention to detail
Princess Eugenie (pictured, left) and Queen Elizabeth II (pictured, right) are seen after attending the traditional Christmas Day church service in Sandringham in 2012
Meanwhile, Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank, 39, share two sons – August, four, and Ernest, one.
‘I think being a mum is such a fantastic moment to actually re-parent yourself a little bit and use the time to […] go back into your childhood and actually heal some of the things which […] might have been there,’ Beatrice said.
‘I try and lean into this sort of re-parenting, and the respect that I have for my mum now is just completely off the charts of [in terms of] how she did it, and how good she was, no matter what challenge she had, how did she do that [and] what did she jump into?
‘How did she do that? What did she jump into? So in fact, for me now […] even talking about her on this podcast, it’s, it’s like […] how do I do that?
‘How do I lean into the acceptance and learn that […] every day is bumpy, but how do you make the bumps quite fun?’
Eugenie added that when it comes to parenting, she feels ‘that guilt’ when trying to ‘make the perfect world’ for her children, and not always hitting the mark.
While appearing on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast, the royal sisters also spoke about their mother, and how she influenced their parenting (pictured L-R: Princess Beatrice; Sarah Ferguson; Princess Eugenie)
‘It’s definitely a challenge […] the guilt of maybe not being there the whole time or missing out on a moment, or when I lose my temper.’
She continued: ‘I think there’s something [about] remembering that little people are little people, and we put on a lot of grown up things […] onto little people sometimes.
‘So at night, the bed-bathtime routine, you know how stressful that is. I like to brush my teeth and brush my hair and have a bath […] but this three and a half little boy does not want to do any of that, and it’s okay.
‘It’s okay that the bath might be missed one night, or tooth brushing might not happen, and that’s fine, because they’re little people who are learning, and they can’t be also perfect.’
The 35-year-old added: ‘So I think it’s for us to as mum, for me especially, [the aim is] to not let the guilt side of things consume the days, because the days are so precious.’