{"id":545930,"date":"2026-07-12T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545930\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:39:24","slug":"whats-really-going-on-with-princess-eugenies-kids-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545930\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Really Going On With Princess Eugenie’s Kids’ Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Eugenie, the youngest daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, announced that she was expecting a third child with her husband Jack Brooksbank via Instagram<\/a>\u00a0in May 2026. The photo that accompanied the announcement featured her two sons, August and Ernest Brooksbank, looking down at a sonogram photo. Like other babies born into the royal family, this brings up the question of how royal family members get their titles<\/a>, because there are multiple ways it can happen. For example, Princess Eugenie and her older sister Princess Beatrice were born princesses because their paternal grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, was the reigning monarch when they were born and bestowed honorary titles on them. Beatrice and Eugenie even kept these titles amid the controversy that caused Andrew to lose his<\/a>. But Princess Eugenie’s sons and her baby on the way don’t have titles and never will<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the United Kingdom, the only babies who can receive prince or princess titles are the children of the reigning monarch\u00a0\u2014 in 2026 that’s King Charles III\u00a0\u2014 and male-descendant grandchildren of the monarch. Beatrice’s children fit in neither category and she’s not able to pass her title down to them, even if she got to keep it when she got married.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking of her marriage,\u00a0Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie didn’t get new titles on their wedding days like their cousins Princes William and Harry<\/a>, because of an antiquated royal custom. Titles such as duke or earl are gifted to men from the royal family upon marriage, but not women. However, Princess Eugenie’s title did technically change \u2014 she became\u00a0Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie, Mrs. Jack Brooksbank\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 but this won’t affect her children. Because Jack Brooksbank is a private citizen and marketing executive,\u00a0he also has no royal titles to pass down. All this considered, their children are styled as Master August and Master Ernest Brooksbank.<\/p>\n

Read more: Here’s How Much Each Member Of The Royal Family Is Really Worth<\/a><\/p>\n

Princess Beatrice married into a completely different situation than her sister\"Edoardo<\/p>\n

Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi suit, Princess Beatrice yellow dress – Samir Hussein\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Princess Eugenie’s sister Princess Beatrice married into a different situation\u00a0in July 2020. Her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, comes from an impressive Italian family.<\/a> His father,\u00a0Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi’s family was given their titles by Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, in 1913. Although it is a courtesy title and not an official one, it was passed down to Edoardo at birth. So, when the couple married, Beatrice became an Italian contessa and nobile donna, a term that means “noblewoman.” As the eldest son in the family, Edoardo will also inherit the 18th-century Villa Mapelli Mozzi palace in Bergamo,\u00a0Italy, upon the death of his father.<\/p>\n

“Edoardo is the only male descendent taking the family into the next generation. He is a count\u00a0\u2014 his wife will be a countess automatically and any of their children will be counts or nobile donna,” Count Alessandro told the Daily Mail<\/a> in 2020. When Princess Beatrice married Edoardo, he already had a male heir, son\u00a0Christopher Woolf, known as “Wolfie.” Upon Christopher’s birth to Edoardo and his ex-partner, architect\u00a0Dara Huang, he became a count.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, it makes sense that the couple’s\u00a0two daughters, Sienna Elizabeth (born in September 2021) and Athena Elizabeth Rose (born in January 2025), will be known as “countess” and “nobile donna” in the future. Although Beatrice isn’t a working royal in England, she is ninth in line to the throne as of 2026 behind her father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and cousin Prince Harry’s daughter,\u00a0Princess Lilibet of Sussex<\/a>. Her daughters Sienna and Athena follow her at 10th and 11th. Basically, it’s highly unlikely that any of Andrew’s decedents will ever have official royal duties in England, but they still enjoy many perks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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