{"id":2307902,"date":"2026-03-02T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307902"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:30:04","slug":"princesses-beatrice-and-eugenie-daughters-of-prince-andrew-banned-from-royal-ascot-for-foreseeable-future-as-parents-come-under-scrutiny-for-jeffrey-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/princesses-beatrice-and-eugenie-daughters-of-prince-andrew-banned-from-royal-ascot-for-foreseeable-future-as-parents-come-under-scrutiny-for-jeffrey-epstein-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, daughters of Prince Andrew, banned from Royal Ascot for &#8216;foreseeable future&#8217; as parents come under scrutiny for Jeffrey Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"27\">Princesses <a target=\"_blank\" ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#US#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/beatrice-and-eugenie\" target=\"_blank\">Beatrice and Eugenie<\/a> will not join the Royal Family for <a target=\"_blank\" ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#US#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/royal-ascot\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Ascot<\/a>, as they are not allowed to attend \u2018Britain\u2019s most popular race meeting,\u2019 following concerns over their parents&#8217; ties to late convicted child sex offender <a target=\"_blank\" ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#US#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/jeffrey-epstein\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, as reported by Daily Mail. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1-->Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, parents of Beatrice and Eugenie, have come under increased scrutiny after the former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on February 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Former <a target=\"_blank\" ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#US#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/prince-andrew\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Andrew<\/a> was arrested on his 66th birthday based on suspicion of misconduct in public office for allegedly forwarding confidential trade documents to Epstein, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The two sisters are also not allowed to join senior royals for the Royal Procession. Sources told Daily Mail that the names of Beatrice and Eugenie, who are granddaughters of Queen Elizabeth II, appear multiple times in the <a target=\"_blank\" ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#US#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/epstein-files\" target=\"_blank\">Epstein files<\/a>. The move appears to have &#8216;completely blindsided&#8217; the two sisters, who are already rocked from the arrest of their father, Andrew.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Royal Ascot? <br \/><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1-->Royal Ascot is considered one of Britain&#8217;s most well-known racecourses. It holds a special week of races in June each year called Royal Ascot, attended by the King and Queen, who has had an interest in horses since childhood, according to the official website of the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week has become Britain&#8217;s most popular race meeting, welcoming around 300,000 visitors over five days, all dressed up in their finest clothes and hats,\u201d the website stated. <\/p>\n<h3>Beatrice and Eugenie&#8217;s exclusion from Royal Ascot is part of plan <br \/><\/h3>\n<p>According to the Daily Mail, the decision to not allow Beatrice and Eugenie to take their seats in the Royal Box at the prestigious horse-racing event is part of a wider decision to exclude the princesses from all public-facing events for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after high-level Palace meetings to decide on the role the sisters should play, as serious questions remain about the extent of their relationship, including financial links with Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve spoken to my friend who works at Ascot, and they said the girls have been told they can&#8217;t be there this year. Beatrice has taken it the hardest. She&#8217;s been completely blindsided by all of this, a well-placed source told Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why attending Royal Ascot impossible for Beatrice and Eugenie this year <br \/><\/strong><br \/>Prince William also apparently advised other Royals not to appear in photographs alongside the pair \u201cfor the rest of the year.&#8221; \u201cAscot would be out of the question because the royals have been told they can&#8217;t have pictures with the girls for the rest of the year,\u201d another source told Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>However, the source added that it would be impossible for the pair to attend because, traditionally, those who are part of the carriage procession stay at Windsor Castle the night before and have dinner with the family. &#8220;That&#8217;s another reason why it&#8217;s out of the question that the girls will be able to go, unless they are just there as members of the Royal Enclosure,&#8221; they said.<br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/p>\n<div class=\"inSideInd\"><\/p>\n<div data-ga-action=\"Preference Banner InArticle Widget\" data-ga-impression=\"Preference Banner InArticle Widget#Impressions | Preference Banner | Articleshow#url\" class=\"Pbanner\">\n<div class=\"Pbannertext\">Add <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/123467569.cms\"\/> as a Reliable and Trusted News Source<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/preference_banner.cmspotime:1--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.economictimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not join the Royal Family for Royal Ascot, as they are not allowed to attend \u2018Britain\u2019s most popular race meeting,\u2019 following concerns over their parents&#8217; ties to late convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as reported by Daily Mail. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, parents of Beatrice and Eugenie, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[384936,380292,22942,22931,446998,425618],"class_list":["post-2307902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-beatrice-and-eugenie","tag-epstein-files","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-prince-andrew","tag-prince-andrew-epstein-ties","tag-royal-ascot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princesses-Beatrice-and-Eugenie-daughters-of-Prince-Andrew-banned-from.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307904,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307902\/revisions\/2307904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}