With the Princess of Wales off public duty potentially until 2025—and with the monarchy already slimmed down before 2024 and the health crises this year has seen—Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie’s appearance at a May 21 Buckingham Palace garden party raised excitement about whether the York sisters might come on as working royals, at least in a temporary capacity. The sisters—who are the daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York—both have careers outside of the Firm and have never been working royals nor, really, have they ever expressed a real desire to become working royals.
We’ll talk more about our thoughts on the matter in a moment, but public relations expert Grayce McCormick said, per The Mirror, that if one or both do become working royals, it could “spark tension.”
