By all accounts, The Anti-Slavery Collective\u2019s inaugural \u2018Force For Freedom\u2019 gala in November 2023 was a glittering and hugely successful affair.<\/p>\n
After a gourmet dinner, well-heeled guests were serenaded by pop star Ed Sheeran<\/a> and took part in an auction hosted by Sotheby\u2019s chair Lord Dalmeny, the Earl of Rosebery.<\/p>\n In a keynote speech to the \u00adassembled, which included her mother, Sarah Ferguson<\/a>, older sister Princess Beatrice<\/a>, cousin Zara \u00adTindall, singer James Blunt<\/a> and \u00adformer PM Theresa May<\/a>, charity trustee\u00a0Princess Eugenie<\/a>\u00a0declared that \u2018tonight is about raising funds and awareness and elevating the noise level on modern slavery\u2019.<\/p>\n By the end of the evening, The Anti-Slavery Collective (TASC), which was co-founded by Eugenie in 2017 to raise awareness of modern slavery and sex trafficking, had raised a hefty \u00a31\u2009million for its highly-\u00adcommendable cause.<\/p>\n Two-and-a-half years on, however, and with the bulk of that money \u2013 \u00a3650,000 \u2013 still sitting in a fixed-term deposit account, there are concerns over the charity\u2019s \u2018disproportionate\u2019 spending on administrative costs \u00adversus its impact, with nearly \u00a3200,000 paid to staff to manage less than \u00a3100,000 in charitable programmes last year.<\/p>\n Despite claims that the gala had enabled it to \u2018scale up our operations\u2019, TASC spent only \u00a311,436 on its charitable programmes in 2024 and, in 2025, just \u00a397,206. This week, the Charity Commission confirmed it was \u2018assessing concerns\u2019 about \u2018charitable spending\u2019 at Eugenie\u2019s charity.<\/p>\n But that news came hot on the heels of a shock announcement from another charity, Anti-Slavery \u00adInternational, that Eugenie\u2019s seven-year role as its patron \u2018has come to an end\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n No reason was given but a royal source has told the Daily Mail that the 35-year-old mother of two was \u2018allowed to look as if she was stepping down, although she was given no choice\u2019.<\/p>\n Sarah Ferguson with Beatrice and Eugenie at the The Anti-Slavery Collective\u2019s inaugural \u2018Force For Freedom\u2019 fundraising event in 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The end of her patronage comes amid mounting \u00adpressure on both the York princesses to speak up about their disgraced parents\u2019 dealings with the late US financier Jeffrey Epstein and, now, their links to David \u00adRowland, a controversial billionaire friend of their father, who was once described in Parliament as a \u2018shady financier\u2019 \u2013 as revealed by The Mail on Sunday last weekend.<\/p>\n There are signs, too, that the \u00adprincesses are being frozen out by the rest of the Royal Family \u2013 and barred from its illustrious calendar of public events.<\/p>\n Once regular guests in the Royal Box at Ascot, the sisters have reportedly been \u2018banned\u2019 from this year\u2019s event in June and will not appear with the King and his inner royal circle in the \u00adtraditional carriage procession.<\/p>\n This week, they were also notably absent from the Cheltenham Festival. The Daily Mail understands that they are unlikely to be seen, either, at this summer\u2019s Trooping the Colour, Chelsea Flower Show or Wimbledon Championships.<\/p>\n The King, having hoped to \u00adprotect his nieces from the fall-out from their parents\u2019 disgrace, is now apparently distancing himself from them.<\/p>\n His loss of patience comes, it is understood, after the princesses declined his offer of help from one of his senior advisers to ensure that their reputations were not tainted by the sins of their avaricious parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Prince of Wales, as I revealed last November, called for his cousins, neither of whom receive money from the Sovereign Grant, to allow an \u00ad\u2018ethics\u2019 check on their finances.<\/p>\n This request was rebuffed, the Daily Mail was told, a move which is said to have deeply frustrated him at the time.<\/p>\n Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi with Mike and Zara Tindall at Cheltenham Festival in 2024, but they were notably absent from the race course event this year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018Beatrice and Eugenie are \u00adparticularly vulnerable at the moment,\u2019 says the Daily Mail\u2019s royal source. \u2018As they are dragged further into the Epstein web, the King is shifting his stance on the girls\u2019 future. Although they aren\u2019t implicated in any of Epstein\u2019s wrongdoings, their own association with him threatens to tarnish the reputation of the throne.\u2019<\/p>\n Now, with growing calls among MPs for public scrutiny of the York family\u2019s wealth, the pressure on the princesses is only set to intensify.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last week, The Mail on Sunday revealed how the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor pushed for his daughters to receive \u00a3100,000 \u2013 \u00a350,000 each \u2013 in secret payments from David Rowland, whose business interests he allegedly helped promote while working as the UK\u2019s trade envoy.<\/p>\n Sources close to the princesses said they had no recollection of the alleged payments from Rowland. The princesses were said last week to have requested their historic banking records.<\/p>\n A week on, they have not yet confirmed or denied if they were paid, but it would not be the first time that Beatrice and Eugenie have received gifts from their \u00adparents\u2019 friends.<\/p>\n \u2018With MPs set to start looking into royal finances, soon things could get worse,\u2019 says the royal source. \u2018Having acted quite brutally against Andrew, courtiers will have no compunction in moving against Beatrice and Eugenie if the King authorises it.\u2019<\/p>\n If the princesses hoped to weather the storm which saw their parents stripped of their titles last October, then the cold winds of fortune are now blowing their way.\u00a0<\/p>\n Andrew with\u00a0David Rowland at Ascot. The Mail on Sunday revealed last week how the ex-Duke of York pushed for his daughters to receive \u00a3100,000 \u2013 in secret payments from the controversial billionaire friend of their father, who was once described in Parliament as a \u2018shady financier\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018Both girls are very highly strung and emotional, like their mother,\u2019 says the royal source.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Beatrice is trying to come to terms with it matter-of-factly, although can\u2019t help bursting into tears regularly \u2013 not for her father but for the implosion of her own world and, especially, the family\u2019s cold shoulder. Her royal status means more to her than Eugenie.\u2019<\/p>\n Meanwhile, adds the source, Eugenie \u2018has apparently gone into denial \u2013 fingers in the ears, head in the sand, hoping it will all go away\u2019.<\/p>\n But being linked to David \u00adRowland has only dragged the princesses\u2019 names further into the foray.\u00a0<\/p>\n Royal author Andrew Lownie, who spent years investigating the Yorks for his biography Entitled, says this latest revelation raised \u2018serious questions\u2019 for both princesses. He added: \u2018It\u2019s time for the princesses and their father to come clean.\u2019<\/p>\n As their father\u2019s close friend, David Rowland was certainly well known to the princesses. He had a front-row seat at Princess Eugenie\u2019s 2018 wedding to Jack Brooksbank. He was previously brought as a guest by Andrew to Balmoral where he had tea with the late Queen and Charles.<\/p>\n \u2018For some time, courting Andrew usually meant you had to charm the daughters too,\u2019 says the royal source.<\/p>\n As teenagers, the Daily Mail can now reveal, the sisters also met him at a grand party held by their father in 2005 to show off his recently completed \u00a37.5\u2009million refurbishments at Royal Lodge to a select group of friends. \u00ad\u2018Beatrice and Eugenie acted as hosts,\u2019 says the royal source.<\/p>\n While the princesses cannot be blamed for how they were raised, they are now adults. Their \u00addecision to remain silent on the misdemeanours of their parents is becoming increasingly problematic, particularly for Eugenie who appears to be struggling to reconcile her charity work with her father\u2019s scandal.<\/p>\n For while calling others \u2018to action\u2019 on issues such as modern slavery and sex trafficking, she has so far declined to comment about her father\u2019s involvement with Virginia Giuffre, who claimed she was trafficked by Epstein to London to have sex with Andrew.<\/p>\n Her silence is in stark contrast to the stance taken by the Queen, who has become increasingly outspoken on matters of women\u2019s welfare. This week, Camilla marked International Women\u2019s Day with a speech supporting survivors of sexual violence.<\/p>\n Ingrid Seward, royal biographer and editor in chief of Majesty Magazine, says that Beatrice and Eugenie are in a \u2018no-win\u2019 position. \u2018Speaking out could make things worse for them. I\u2019ve no doubt they\u2019ve been advised to lie low and keep out of the way,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n \u2018The King was always very fond of his nieces but at the moment it won\u2019t look good for the monarchy to be supporting them in public.\u2019<\/p>\n What the future holds for them both remains to be seen but the weeks ahead will be crucial. The Daily Mail understands that there are discussions between No\u200910 and the Palace as to whether Andrew should be removed from the line of succession.<\/p>\n According to the royal source, there is a \u2018growing feeling that it should be a block expulsion\u2019 and \u2018there will inevitably be calls for the princesses to lose their HRH titles\u2019. Signs that the sisters are being airbrushed from royal life, says the source, \u2018suggest that things aren\u2019t going their way\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By all accounts, The Anti-Slavery Collective\u2019s inaugural \u2018Force For Freedom\u2019 gala in November 2023 was a glittering and hugely successful affair. After a gourmet dinner, well-heeled guests were serenaded by pop star Ed Sheeran and took part in an auction hosted by Sotheby\u2019s chair Lord Dalmeny, the Earl of Rosebery. 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