King Charles has vowed to protect Beatrice and Eugenie as their mother Sarah Ferguson faces life without her Duchess of York title.
Sarah agreed not to use it after ex-husband Prince Andrew last night relinquished his Duke title in the ongoing fall out of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Now amid the controversy, His Majesty, is said to be very keen to ‘protect’ nieces Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, who remain Her Royal Highnesses as granddaughters of Queen Elizabeth.
‘He wouldn’t have wanted to sign off on anything that would impact them,’ a source told the Daily Mail.
If their father’s titles had been removed instead of being ‘in abeyance’, theirs too would have been affected, and Charles was keen to avoid this as he holds them ‘in high regard and affection’.
Indeed, fears have previously been expressed for the two princesses amid their parents’ scandals. They are said to have been ‘utterly mortified’ reading lurid headlines. Just this week Eugenie failed to post a happy birthday message for her mother Sarah who turned 66 on Wednesday.
Both York girls have remained steadfastly silent for most of the past decade, ever since allegations were first made about Andrew’s links to Epstein in 2015.
They have also been left in a ‘difficult’ position this Christmas after their parents were told they were not welcome to join the King and Queen and other royals at Sandringham.
Beatrice lives with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, stepson Wolfie, eight, and their daughters, Sienna, three, and Athena, nine months.
While Eugenie lives in Portugal with husband Jack Brooksbank and their two children, August, four, and Ernest, two.
Meanwhile, Sarah and Andrew, 65, will both remain resident at Windsor’s Royal Lodge. The King has acknowledged that he cannot legally force Andrew out and he will continue to remain there so long as he can afford the rent.
The York family: Beatrice, Sarah, Andrew and Eugenie pictured at a gathering
Prince Andrew’s statement released by Buckingham Palace on Friday evening
In Andrew’s announcement last night, he confirmed he would no longer be known as the Duke of York and was stepping down from his position as Knight Grand Cross and his membership of the Order of the Garter.
It is understood there was a sense of relief at Buckingham Palace that the King’s brother had finally ‘fallen on his sword’ after years of pressure to keep a low profile
His Majesty is said to feel ‘glad’ at the outcome. However, for Andrew it could not be more embarrassing.
The York title was perhaps late Queen Elizabeth II‘s most significant gift to Prince Andrew and Sarah.
It was once a name tied to the Queen’s beloved grandfather, George V, as well as her parents, George VI and Queen Elizabeth before they ascended the throne, and at the time of her birth she was even known as Princess Elizabeth of York.
But, over four decades later, the title has been marred by controversy after Andrew’s ‘close’ relationship with paedophile financier Epstein was brought to light.
Andrew continues to deny allegations of sexual assault made against him by the late Virginia Giuffre, who he met through through the sex offender, in a statement issued by the palace.
But he hasn’t been the only York steeped in controversy, with a bombshell email recently obtained by the Mail On Sunday revealing how his ex-wife Fergie cynically lied when she publicly disowned the vile billionaire.
It was just weeks after her public statement that she wrote him a gushing private message, describing disgraced Epstein as a ‘steadfast, generous and supreme friend’ – confessing she only distanced herself from him to save her own reputation.
Now, the former Duchess of York will be known as plain Sarah Ferguson as her ex-husband, with whom she will continue to live at the 30-bedroom Royal Lodge at Windsor, will remain a prince due to being the son of the late Queen.
Sarah and Andrew on their wedding day at Westminster Abbey on July 23, 1986
Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew attending the Royal Ascot in 2019
Just weeks ago, Sarah was dropped by seven charities after ‘humbly apologising’ to paedophile Epstein after disavowing him amid his conviction for child sexual abuse offences.
The bombshell leaked email shows Sarah wrote to the convicted sex offender to ‘humbly apologise’ in 2011 just weeks after telling the press she had cut all ties with him.
In an earlier interview that year, she described her involvement with Epstein, who had served time for soliciting prostitution from a minor, as a ‘gigantic error of judgment’.
The organisations who have since cut ties with the Duchess includethe Teenage Cancer Trust, which she had backed since 1990, the British Heart Foundation, children’s hospice charity Julia’s House and Prevent Breast Cancer.
A spokesperson for Sarah said the email was sent to counter an aggressive threat Epstein had made to sue her for defamation.
The bombshell emails sent by Fergie to Jeffrey Epstein – despite vowing just weeks before to never contact him again during a newspaper interview
Amid the controversy, his Majesty, King Charles III, was very keen to ‘protect’ Andrew’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who remain Her Royal Highnesses
King Charles III on October 16 during a visit to the High Commission of Australia in London
However the scandal in the House of York didn’t begin and end with Epstein.
Further embarrassment came from Andrew this week when it was revealed he met with the ‘spymaster’ at the heart of the collapsed China spy case at least three times.
The under-fire royal, already mired in controversy over his friendship with another alleged Beijing spy, forged links with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mandarin Cai Qi, with the pair posing as they celebrated ‘jointly building a golden era in China-UK relations’.
Prosecutors now believe Cai was presiding over a massive intelligence-gathering operation to steal British secrets, overseeing the alleged activities of parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and China-based English teacher Christopher Berry.
Both men have denied any wrongdoing and the case against them collapsed on the eve of trial last month after the Government refused to label China an ‘enemy’.
But Fergie has always vowed not let her ‘sad’ ex-husband Prince Andrew ‘down’, despite their disgraced royal divorce in 1996 after ten years of marriage.
Speaking with The Sunday Times last year, Fergie professed her undying support for her ex-husband.
In the joint interview given with her sister Jane and talking about their father, she confessed: ‘When Jane left for Australia, I became a carer for Dad. I was left to look after a sad man, which is sort of what I’m doing now.’
And speaking about their wedding day at Westminster Abbey in 1986, she added: ‘I gave up my anonymity that day. I was able to because love conquers all. It’s still with us today. I won’t let him down.
‘He supports me as much as I support him. He’s supported me through thick and thin, not just marriage or divorce. We agree on the three Cs — communication, compromise, compassion.’
The Duchess reflected on how she first met Prince Andrew at the age of 12 and knew she was going to marry him. Later in 1985, Princess Diana invited her to Ascot and she and Andrew were reunited. Six months later they were engaged.
During their marriage, they welcomed daughters Beatrice and Eugenie before their divorce ten years later.
Despite their separation, Fergie previously said they were the ‘happiest divorced couple in the world’, and during the interview confessed ‘hopes’ Andrew still ‘loves her’ like she loves him.
Virginia Giuffre photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell in London in 2001
In 2018, Sarah told the Daily Mail: ‘We’re the happiest divorced couple in the world. We’re divorced to each other, not from each other […] My duty is to him. I am so proud of him. I stand by him and always will. The way we are is our fairytale.’
Although the 66-year-old painted a picture of divorced bliss, a ‘fairytale’ it has not always been, with the couple seemingly attempting to out-do one another in the wake of their separation after rumours of an affair between Fergie and Texan millionaire Steve Wyatt bubbled to the surface in 1992.
Just five months after the couple announced they would be separating, Sarah was snapped topless with her then-lover financial adviser John Bryan.
And when images of Mr Bryan sucking on Fergie’s toes landed on the front pages of newspapers around the globe, an enraged Prince Philip banned her from future family events.
The Queen’s own sister, Princess Margaret allegedly penned Fergie a message, telling her that she had brought more ‘shame on the family than could ever have been imagined.’
Andrew and Sarah steamed ahead with their divorce in 1996 despite rumours of them possibly reuniting – however Fergie was allowed to keep her title of the Duchess of York.
Her problematic spending habits later became public knowledge, with it being revealed she was £4.2million in debt by the time her marriage to Andrew was legally ended.
She would later claim her divorce settlement only totalled £15,000 a year, meaning she had to pursue other avenues of income – writing children’s books, her own biography as well as being a spokesperson for brands such as Weight Watchers.
Yet again, the humiliated former Duchess infuriated the palace with her accusations, so much so they revealed she had been given half-a-million from Queen Elizabeth for a home, and £350,000 in cash.
Fergie had also been given a monthly allowance totalling to £500,000 in the 14 years after her divorce from Andrew, they confirmed.
But her financial woes continued to cause embarrassment for the royals, with Fergie later being filmed by an undercover News of the World reporter to be offering up access to her ex-husband in 2011.
However, it was her and Andrew’s relationship with Epstein, whom had helped her clear a £15,000 debt to an aide, that would prove to be a wound that wouldn’t heal, spelling the end of the House of York and the Duchess of Scandal.
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