- King Charles’ heir warned against promoting Princess Beatrice
- Prince William now controls the next step for the royal titles and the future of the monarchy
- Royal Ascot snubs ‘only the beginning’ of Prince William’s reign
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie did not expect a shocking notification from the palace, preventing them from attending the annual Royal Ascot, especially after receiving support from the royal family last Christmas.
Furthermore, even though their father is stripped of his royal titles and honors, they retain all of these and have even received new patronages in recent months. With the new revelations in the Epstein files, the sisters have been criticized for supporting their parents when they were young but not minors.
King Charles experienced the longest wait period in British royal history to take the throne, but it still seemed like he lacked foresight and gave in to his emotional decisions.
On the other hand, Prince William has already considered the path he would take for the monarchy and has made several appeals to his father to avoid the crisis the royal family faces today, according to Tom Sykes.
The York family, particularly Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, have proven to be a blight on their royal engagements and the work they do. The ongoing investigation has also humiliated the royal family.
William’s friends revealed to Daily Beast that the heir to the throne had urged his father to exclude the York family from royal life altogether and that he was in despair at his father’s half-measures on the matter.
Sykes shared that the Royal Ascot ban had been a “very visible marker of who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’.
William had been on good terms with his cousins but that did not change his “title fire” plans. This could cause a rift between them, but the future king is determined in his position.
“The goal is a much tighter, more controlled monarchy in which only a small, inner circle bears the burden – and risk – of representing the crown,” says Tom. “In this context, excluding Beatrice and Eugenie from the Royal Ascot carriage procession seems less like a one-off snub than an early skirmish in a wider campaign.”
