The vibe between William<\/a> and Kate<\/a>, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and his cousins Princess Beatrice<\/a> and Princess Eugenie<\/a> was as dreary as the weather at the June 6 wedding of fellow cousin Peter Phillips to Harriet Sperling, RadarOnline.com<\/em><\/a> can reveal.<\/p>\n According to sources, after William gave Beatrice a polite kiss on the cheek when they arrived at the All Saints’ Church in Gloucestershire, England, the future king and queen kept their distance from the two women, even going so far as to actively avoid them during the big event.<\/p>\n The Prince and Princess of Wales actively avoided Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The snub came as no surprise to royal watchers.<\/p>\n The day before, the UK’s National Audit Office released the findings of an investigation into royal residences. The probe, prompted by the luxe accommodations long held by their disgraced dad, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, at the Royal Lodge amid his ties to the convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, revealed some shocking news about the former prince’s daughters: King Charles III<\/a> pays the rent for Beatrice’s St. James Palace apartment and Eugenie’s Kensington Palace home, Ivy Cottage, a perk usually reserved for working royals.<\/p>\n News of the free lodging sent shockwaves around the internet \u2014 and within the royal family.<\/p>\n Now the sisters are being called freeloaders<\/a> and drawing unfavorable comparisons to their dodgy dad and their mom, the so-called “Socialite Grifter” Sarah Ferguson<\/a>, both of whom repeatedly profited from their royal ties.<\/p>\n “The level of outrage has shaken Beatrice and Eugenie,” said an insider. “The girls are desperate to hold onto their royal connection. Being cast aside like their parents is their ultimate nightmare.”<\/p>\n Prince Andrew was arrested following a misconduct in public office probe.MEGA<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Adding insult to injury, neither sister is hurting for money, and the free London spreads are used for little more than the occasional crash pad. Beatrice, 37, a successful private equity analyst, and her property developer husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi<\/a>, 42 parents to daughters Sienna, 4, and Athena, 1 \u2014 own a $4.6million home in the Cotswolds, while art director Eugenie, 36, and her marketing exec husband Jack Brooksbank, 40 \u2014 parents to sons August, 5, and Ernie, 3, with a third child on the way \u2014 split their time between England and their $4.8million villa in Portugal.<\/p>\n The girls grew up amid their parents’ questionable financial decisions.<\/p>\n Sarah, 66 \u2014 who’s reportedly been hiding out at spas in Switzerland and Ireland \u2014 infamously got caught in a sting operation offering access to Andrew, also 66, in exchange for $750,000, and documents show she repeatedly asked Epstein, who committed suicide in jail in 2019, for money \u2014 she eventually publicly apologized for accepting $24,000 from him in 2011.<\/p>\n Despite splitting from Andrew in 1992, Fergie leveraged her royal standing to land TV hosting gigs and ad campaigns and publish kids’ books and two memoirs.<\/p>\n As the new audit findings also show, Andrew had been making money by subletting cottages at Royal Lodge<\/a>, where he paid nominal rent for 22 years, to staffers.<\/p>\n He was also known to use taxpayer-funded private jets for lavish personal trips under the guise of official business. Charles forced him to relocate to the more modest Wood Farm<\/a> on the Sandringham Estate in February.<\/p>\nRoyal Housing Perks Exposed<\/h2>\n
Family Scandals Resurface<\/h2>\n
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