{"id":456892,"date":"2025-09-28T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/456892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:08:12","slug":"princess-beatrice-unlikely-to-carry-royal-duties-following-prince-andrews-epstein-history-engulfing-house-of-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/456892\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Beatrice unlikely to carry Royal duties following Prince Andrew\u2019s Epstein history engulfing House of York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Princess Beatrice has faced obstacles in carrying out Royal work due to her father, Prince Andrew\u2019s controversial links to Jeffrey Epstein and fresh revelations connecting her mother to the late sex offender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Insiders tied to Beatrice, who serves as a patron for several charities, signalled her intent to help carry out Royal duties while easing the burden on King Charles and Prince William.<\/p>\n<p>However, Prince Andrew\u2019s past links and leaked emails from his former wife, Sarah &#8220;Fergie&#8221; Ferguson, to Epstein could jeopardise Beatrice\u2019s hopes of carrying out Royal engagements.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles has reportedly been impressed by her elegance and enthusiasm during recent joint appearances and is aware of the fact the number of working Royals needs to rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail revealed on Sunday that courtiers have concerns about further damage within the Royal family due to Andrew\u2019s relationship with convicted paedophile Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>The masthead understood a source close to Andrew\u2019s daughter said: \u201cBeatrice does want to be a working Royal and she wants to do Royal events to help her uncle because she&#8217;d enjoy them and she would be good at the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles apparently appreciates this \u2026 There had at one stage been a feeling that Bea could have been lined up one day. She&#8217;s never put a foot wrong, don&#8217;t forget \u2013 and she shouldn&#8217;t be punished for the sins of her father. But the King&#8217;s courtiers are concerned Andrew could try to &#8216;get in via the back door&#8217; by exerting influence over her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid the reports, new files have emerged showing phone message logs, copies of flight logs and manifests for aircraft, as well as copies of financial ledgers belonging to Epstein which were released by Congressional Democrats, naming Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>Revelations of Andrew in the biography Entitled by Andrew Lownie and the emergence of emails sent by the Duchess of York to Epstein, could derail Beatrice\u2019s hope of taking on a prominent Royal role.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, it was revealed Sarah Ferguson, <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/this-will-be-a-deeply-painful-period-sad-update-for-princesses-beatrice-and-eugenie-after-fergie-and-prince-andrews-downfall\/news-story\/207f72656bee444114d95713ee84b58d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"207f72656bee444114d95713ee84b58d\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\">Duchess of York, had emailed Epstein<\/a> in 2011 in which she called him her \u201csupreme friend\u201d despite publicly distancing herself from the sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, several charities have dropped Ferguson as a patron, including a children\u2019s hospice and the Teenage Cancer Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Beatrice has faced obstacles in carrying out Royal work due to her father, Prince Andrew\u2019s controversial links&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2204,1760,2205,532,13082,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-456892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","9":"tag-king-charles","10":"tag-prince-andrew","11":"tag-prince-william","12":"tag-princess-beatrice","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115279724916723726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}