Expert lays out why Beatrice and Eugenie should keep their royal titles

Should Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie be punished for their parent’s actions?

According to public relations expert Lynn Carratt, the sisters should not have their titles removed over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson‘s connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

“Stripping them of titles would risk creating public backlash,” she told Daily Express.

“Their roles as royal princesses and as private individuals carving out their own careers and identities remain separate from Andrew’s controversies,” Carratt said.

While The Firm might believe distancing itself from Beatrice and Eugenie will please the public, the specialist feels it would have the opposite effect.

“Removing them could create more headlines for all the wrong reasons and inadvertently draw attention to the very issue they have no part in,” she claimed.

“Retaining their titles maintains fairness, respects their personal achievements, and avoids unnecessary complications for the royal family,” Carratt added.

King Charles III stripped the former Duke and Duchess of York of their titles and evicted them from Royal Lodge in 2025. At the time, Buckingham Palace confirmed their daughters’ honors would not be called into question.

However, after Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and additional files tying the Yorks to the late criminal were released by the U.S. Department of Justice, talk of revoking Beatrice and Eugenie’s titles circulated.

According to royal expert Jennie Bond, the siblings should consider severing their ties to the monarchy.

“I don’t think either of them has ever flaunted their titles, but there’s obviously a huge cachet in some circles about being called a Princess,” she told The Mirror. “A title like that opens doors and sets up connections, which both Beatrice and Eugenie have used to their advantage.”

“There’s nothing wrong in that, but now that their father has been stripped of his titles and their mother can no longer use hers, they might like to quietly drop the use of theirs,” Bond suggested.

“I don’t see the need for them to renounce them publicly, but it might be prudent to sever links with the York name — now so very tarnished —and just use their married names,” she noted. Beatrice wed Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in 2020, while Eugenie tied the knot with Jack Brooksbank in 2018.