During Queen Elizabeth's reign, the Buckingham Palace balcony would be packed with extended family members during events like Trooping the Colour, and her cousins, like the Duke of Kent, were paid as full-time working royals. But King Charles has embraced a slimmer monarchy in recent years—especially after losing Prince Harry and the former Prince Andrew as senior royals. In his forthcoming book The Windsor Legacy, author Robert Jobson revealed that The King has been busy making a number of cuts to streamline the Royal Family and save taxpayer money.
"Several non-working members of the Royal Family, including Charles’s nieces Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, have been told unequivocally they’ll have to stand on their own two feet and pay their own way," Jobson wrote in the book, which has been serialized in the Daily Mail.
