Unshaken loyalty!
The royal family may be cutting ties with Andrew Mountbatten Windsor — formerly known as Prince Andrew — over his connection to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, are standing by their father, Examiner can reveal.
“They still love their father very much, even though they fully acknowledge he’s made terrible mistakes and is now paying for them dearly,” explains an insider.
On Thursday, October 30, Buckingham Palace issued an official statement announcing the 65-year-old royal, who has continuously maintained his innocence and denied any wrongdoing, will be stripped of his title and evicted from the Royal Lodge.
Per reports, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, will be allowed to retain their royal titles — for now.
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As a source previously told Examiner, Prince William, 43, had threatened to strip their titles to force Andrew to move.
“Everyone’s telling them how lucky they are, but the fact that William was using that as a bargaining chip was something that still sits very badly with them,” says the insider. “They can’t help but fear it’s only a temporary reprieve.”
It doesn’t help that the princesses have been privately “trash-talking” their cousin, reveals the insider, which friends have warned them is the equivalent of sealing their royal death warrants.
“These bad feelings towards William will do them no good in the long run, but right now, the emotion is running sky-high,” says the insider. “They can’t help themselves. At the end of the day, they’re their parents’ daughters, very headstrong and defiant, and that’s really coming to the fore.”
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