Prince Andrew livid as daughters get demoted by Queen over frivolous expensesPrince Andrew was at-outs with British royalty after his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were brutally snubbed.
The Duke of York was left fuming after Queen Elizabeth reportedly was coerced into turning down an invitation regarding his daughters and their hefty expenses, as revealed by unearthed reports.
The two sisters and their expenses were discussed in Channel 5’s documentary Beatrice and Eugenie: Pampered Princesses.
Editor-at-Large of the Daily Mail, Richard Kay recalled how Eugenie had gone on a world tour to mark the top of her A-Levels in 2009.
"She was kind of flitting from country to country as most bourgeoisie children do who take gap years. But, of course, she was amid police bodyguards,” said Kay.
"That meant that we the taxpayers were paying for policemen to accompany her to the fleshpots of the planet ,” he went on to mention .
The royal sisters get security worth £500,000 annually which is purchased by the taxpayers.
In the film, biographer Angela Levin said: "Prince Charles decided that as they weren't likely to be very senior royals, that this was an excessive amount of for the general public to pay, so he stopped that. Prince Andrew was so angry that he wrote a note to the Queen. He said he wanted them to be considered as proper royals."
"He didn't want the protection officers to go away them. Usually the Queen gave into him, she had just huge soft spot for him. He could usually persuade her to his way. But this point , she refused,” said Levin.
Royal editor at the life style , Katie Nicholl joined the discourse and said: "The suggestion really was that here was a few who were living beyond their means and cashing in on their royal connections. People thought Beatrice and Eugenie were getting to be just an equivalent .”
"It was almost as if they were tarred with their parents' brush from the outset,” she added.
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