Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson will be spending Easter miserably navel-gazing… but their two daughters will be feeling even worse. Because while Andrew and Fergie both made hay over the years thanks to their misguided and desperate friendship with the vile paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, their daughters are reaping their mum and dad’s bitter harvest, humiliated.
It is understood that Princesses Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 36, will not attend the traditional Easter Sunday service with the Royal Family at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. With the agreement and understanding of King Charles, his snubbed nieces have made ‘alternative plans for this Easter’.
Royal sources have stressed they were very much part of the family Christmas at Sandringham and ‘will be seen’ at future family celebrations.
But while their father continues to be investigated by police over allegations of misconduct in public office, permission has been sought and granted for them to stay away. Andrew denies any wrongdoing.
Already, we have understood the Prince of Wales has told the Princesses they are not welcome with the Royal Family at Royal Ascot this year – but it has since been claimed King Charles may invite the sisters personally.
However, other Royals have reportedly been advised not to be pictured with the siblings for the rest of 2026.
Bang goes their invite to any of the year’s top society parties. The sisters are personae non gratae. They have been excommunicated.
Both Eugenie and Beatrice have also previously enjoyed attending royal Garden Parties alongside the King and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Last December, William and Kate were careful to avoid being photographed walking alongside the Princesses at the royals’ Christmas Day church service at Sandringham.
What a 12 months it has been for the House of York. They certainly have been keeping British historians busy with fresh chapters to their Royal Family books.
This time last year, Andrew and Fergie both appeared at 2025’s Windsor Easter Sunday service with other members of the Royal Family, including King Charles and Queen Camilla.
But there will be no such appearance from Andrew this year at the traditional Easter Matins service, which takes place at the 15th-century chapel in Berkshire.
Last year, Andrew and Fergie were also still living the high life in the 30-room Royal Lodge mansion, at Windsor – now he’s been pottering about in a caravan and will soon move into a five-bed cottage, Marsh Farm, on the King’s Sandringham Estate.
No one knows yet where Sarah Ferguson will end up living. But it’s unlikely to be with either daughter.
Despite the Epstein scandal, Beatrice and Eugenie continue to have second homes inside King Charles’s palaces despite not being working royals – all thanks to a ‘rental deal’ struck by their father.
Beatrice still has an apartment in St James’s Palace, despite her main home being in the Cotswolds, it was said.
And Eugenie has Ivy Cottage, a three-bedroom property at Kensington Palace, which apparently serves as a ‘bolthole’ because she spends half the year living in Portugal.
But eventually, both sisters could end up losing them, too.
Now, poor Eugenie and Beatrice are left in Royal limbo, waiting for clarity, or closure – or whatever comes. They will certainly be hoping 2027 rolls along as quickly as possible because this looks like a year to forget.
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