After King Charles’ long-desired hopes for a “slimmed down monarchy” have gotten, well, perhaps a little too slim, it seems that Princess Beatrice is “stepping up” her royal duties amid this year’s numerous health crises as well as the step backs and royal resignations of the past five years.
Beatrice’s father, Prince Andrew, unexpectedly resigned from royal duty far before anyone (perhaps most especially Andrew himself) ever thought he would, in the wake of his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his own accusations of sexual misconduct. (Accusations, by the way, he still—to this day—vehemently denies.) Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back from their duties as senior royals and have forged a new life for themselves in the United States. In 2024 alone, King Charles and the Princess of Wales have both been diagnosed with cancer (as has Beatrice’s mother, Sarah Ferguson). Though she never expected to be a working royal, the landscape is making it look more likely that the possibility could be in Beatrice’s future, Us Weekly reports.
