“They are pretty torn because they believed him,” said royals expert Robert Jobson.
Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are reportedly “torn” about their father, the former Prince Andrew, following new revelations about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, moved out of his longtime home at Royal Lodge this week amid renewed interest in the Epstein case
Mountbatten-Windsor previously claimed that he cut off contact with Epstein in 2010, but the Department of Justice’s latest release as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act shows that the ex-royal was in communication with him in 2011.
One day after the publication of a now-infamous photograph depicting Mountbatten-Windsor with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, he allegedly wrote the following message to Epstein: “It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it!”
As a result of this new disclosure, Eugenie and Beatrice apparently feel “duped” by their dad.
They are pretty torn because they believed him,” royals expert Robert Jobson told People on Thursday. “Just like the late Queen and Charles, Andrew told them all the same story—that he had done nothing wrong. My understanding is they feel pretty duped by the whole thing.”
Jobson, author of the new book The Windsor Legacy, added that Eugenie and Beatrice “believed their father.”
“Now it has all backfired,” he shared. “I know that Eugenie, especially, has found it very difficult.”
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that the former Duke of York vacated his home of over two decades. He will temporarily relocate to a property on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, though he is expected to settle at Marsh Farm, another nearby home, after renovations.
