Overview
- Buckingham Palace confirmed that Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank welcomed a daughter on 3 August in Lisbon and said senior royals were “delighted.”
- Princess Beatrice observed a muted 38th birthday on 8 August with only close family present while her husband Edoardo publicly posted an affectionate tribute that quelled split rumours.
- YouGov polling published in July showed both Beatrice and Eugenie have fallen into net negative favourability, placing them below Prince Harry after a large shift of previously neutral respondents.
- A recent government review named the sisters as occupants of subsidised royal residences paid from the King’s private income, renewing public and institutional questions about privileges for non-working royals.
- The sisters’ low public visibility follows earlier actions this year against their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, including removal of titles, eviction from Royal Lodge, and an arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office.