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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will not attend the traditional Easter Sunday service with the Royal Family at Windsor.
It is understood that with the agreement and understanding of the King, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsors’s daughters have made ‘alternative plans for this Easter’.
Sources have stressed that they were very much part of the family Christmas at Sandringham and ‘will be seen’ at future family celebrations.
But under the current circumstances, as their father is investigated by police over allegations of misconduct in public office, permission has been sought and granted for them to stay away.
Disgraced former Prince Andrew appeared at last year’s Easter Sunday service with other members of the Royal Family including King Charles and Queen Camilla.
But there will be no such appearance from Andrew this year at the traditional Easter Matins service which takes place at a 15th century chapel in Berkshire.
Despite the scandal which has engulfed their family, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie continue to have second homes inside King Charles’ palaces despite not being working royals – all thanks to a ‘rental deal’ struck by their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The disgraced former Duke of York has been arrested, kicked out of Royal Lodge and has not had an office at Buckingham Palace for four years due to the Epstein scandal.
But he has also successfully pushed for his children to ‘retain a foothold’ in palaces belonging to his older brother, the King.
As a consequence, Princess Beatrice still has an apartment in St James’s Palace, despite her main home being in the Cotswolds, it was said.
And Eugenie has Ivy Cottage, a three-bedroom property at Kensington Palace, which apparently serves as a ‘bolthole’ because she spends half the year living in Portugal.
It is highly unlikely that the siblings will be paying the market rates of between £15,000 and £19,000-a-month for homes in two of London’s most illustrious addresses.
This is a breaking news story. More to follow.
