Princess Beatrice has been spotted loading her luggage into a London taxi.
The daughter of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson appeared to be preparing for a trip away, carrying three bags of luggage into the car while police officers and a footman looked on.
Beatrice, 37, was last seen in public on March 26 at the upmarket Eel Sushi Bar in London’s Notting Hill, where she and her husband, Edo Mapelli Mozzi, enjoyed a lunch.
The pair put on a united front amid fears that their ‘marriage is in trouble’ in the wake of the Epstein scandal.
The married couple spent two hours inside the trendy Japanese restaurant for a large birthday party before being picked up in an electric Porsche.
And yesterday Beatrice, in a floral dress and black blazer, carried her personalised £2,710 Horizon 55 Monogram Louis Vuitton suitcase to a waiting taxi.
While Beatrice’s current location isn’t known for certain, Hello reported that she attended her stylist, Olivia Buckingham’s, baby shower earlier this week, alongside model Poppy Delevingne and Nicky Hilton – though she wasn’t in any of the images shared online.
Her latest appearance comes in the same week that her sister Princess Eugenie was spotted at a society wedding in Sicily. And two weeks ago, their mother broke cover in Austria.
Princess Beatrice was spotted loading her luggage into a London taxi on Thursday
Eugenie attended the wedding of hotel tycoon Sir Rocco Forte’s son Charles and handbag designer Georgie Wright, which took place at the Cathedral of Montreale on Saturday.
The princess, wearing a black gown, was pictured chatting to guests at the hotel Villa Igiea in Palermo in the background of photographs shared by socialite Jazzy de Lisser, captioned: ‘That’s Amore. Most beautiful weekend celebrating The Poodles’.
It is not known whether Eugenie was accompanied by her husband or their children at the 350-person star-studded wedding, which counted Lady Lola Bute and Tish Weinstock among the guests.
Eugenie has remained close friends with the Forte family for years and attended Irene Forte’s wedding to Felix Winckler in Italy in 2021.
Both Beatrice and Eugenie have been keeping a low profile since shameful revelations about their parents emerged when the Epstein files were released in January.
The last time Eugenie was spotted before the wedding was at a birthday dinner with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, at the River Cafe in west London last month.
She was last seen with the Royal Family at their Christmas Day service at Sandringham and did not attend the Easter ceremony.
Their latest appearances come just two weeks after her mother, Sarah Ferguson, broke cover in Austria.
The disgraced former royal, 66, is urgently seeking refuge with friends after her luxury £2,000-a-night apartment at the Mayrlife wellness spa in Altaussee, near Salzburg, Austria, was compromised when photos of her nearby were published last week.
Beatrice carried her personalised £2,710 Horizon 55 Monogram Louis Vuitton suitcase into the taxi
The daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson loaded her luggage into the taxi before driving off
The 37-year-old, dressed in a floral dress and black blazer, took her place in the back of the car before leaving
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie pictured in 2023. The sisters have kept a low profile since shocking revelations about their parents emerged when the Epstein files were released in January
According to sources, Ferguson barely left her first-floor two-bedroom chalet overlooking the stunningly beautiful lake since checking in nearly a month ago, and was never seen on the large balcony.
She ordered all her meals via room service – bresaola beef with mozzarella was a favourite, as was chicken breast.
She was never seen on the resort’s walking trails, or down by the lake, or at its clay tennis courts. Her contact with the outside world was kept to a bare minimum, though she had her hair done on March 24 by a visiting stylist.
Sources close to Fergie say that she remains in constant touch with her daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, on the phone, while both of them have been increasingly concerned over her mental health.
Despite the mounting pressure on her, friends describe a woman who is tired but not broken. ‘She just wants a door that doesn’t open for strangers,’ a source said. ‘That’s all it is. She wants to breathe.’
The King’s household has made plain for some time that the duchess is no longer part of official royal life. She is not invited to Sandringham or Balmoral and will never appear on the Palace balcony again.
Despite a disastrous few months for the Mountbatten-Windsors, which culminated with the arrest of Andrew in February, Eugenie and her sister Beatrice are believed to have been invited to Royal Ascot by King Charles.
The sisters are in line for an appearance in the official carriage procession and the Royal Enclosure at the racing festival this June.
Charles is said to be still fond of his nieces despite the astonishing downfall of their father in recent years, and will permit them to attend royal events in future.
It is believed that neither Beatrice nor Eugenie have visited Andrew, 66, during his exile in Sandringham.
