Princess Eugenie occupies a fascinating role within the royal family. While the daughter of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew often takes part in public engagements, she is not a working royal, and therefore not funded by the taxpayer or the Privy Purse. As such, the Princess undergoes the business of royalty in addition to her full-time job as director at art gallery Hauser & Wirth.
Without a team of hair and make-up artists, and just one member of staff supporting her in her charity work (that would be Libby Horsley, the private secretary whom she shared with her sister, Princess Beatrice), Eugenie’s work is primarily a solo endeavour. If a rare interview is anything to go by, however, it seems that the younger York sister will one day be joined by her sons, Ernest and August.
Speaking to The Telegraph during an engagement in Salisbury with Horatio’s Garden, a charity which aims to build outdoor spaces at spinal clinics up and down the country, Princess Eugenie revealed that she plans to one day introduce her young boys, aged one and four, to her unique working life. ‘I really want them to come to my gallery and to come here on visits like this and see what I do,’ she told the outlet. ‘It must start when they’re young.’