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Ellie Fennell

Princess Beatrice and Eugenie and the emotional toll of being judged for someone else's mistakes, explained by a psychologist

An image of Princess Beatrice and Eugenie next to a cut out picture of Linda Papadopoulos.

There are few things more unsettling than realising you’re being judged for something you didn’t do and had no say in. Yet for Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, that feeling has become a familiar part of life as they repeatedly find themselves ‘tarred by someone else’s brush’, their own identities blurred by their parents’ actions and scrutinised on a global stage

Most of us will recognise some version of this, that uncomfortable moment when the destructive behaviour of someone close to us quietly becomes part of our own story. But why does it have such a profound impact, and how do we begin to loosen the grip?

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