I was actually referring to the Marlborough College incident (thankfully there are no pictures) when Eugenie was found drunk and naked on campus grounds.
A bit of factual accuracy would be good here. Eugenie was not found drunk, as for naked the alleged incident was 'frollicking naked on the school playing fields with a group of students' There has never been any confirmation that this actually happened, it was supposed to be end of final year of high school high jinks. But the school made no comment and neither did any students as to whether it actually happened.
Beatrice and Eugenie are condemned far too quickly for preceived bad behaviour. For example, the first lot of photos taken of Beatrice coming out of a nightclub it was claimed that she was drunk. The photos certainly look as if she is, eyes going in different directions ( quite well-known photos) So lots of 'what a disgrace she is' indignant commentary from the condemners of these girls. Later in a very small article it came out that Beatrice was startled by the photographers, eyes going everywhere, but she then walked to her car accompanied by her protection officer and then drove home with the protection officer seated in the passenger seat. Had she been drinking there's no way that the protection officers would have let her drive, she certainly wasn't drunk but got condemned by the critical squad for being a disgrace. A static picture doesn't always tell what one assumes. Especially if one wants to assume the worst.
but it is said it has been insisted on by their father...
Ah, there's the issue, 'it is said that Andrew insists on fulltime protection for his daughters' Assumptions but no definite proof. All HRHs receive protection from the Royal Protection Squad, including Prince Michael ( and princess) of Kent even though they carry out no official duties. So when P. Michael goes on a business trip to Russia ( to make money for himself) or Pness Michael goes to her Carribean Island to work on her books for a month each year, they do so with 24/7 Police protection. Peter. Zara, Lord Frederik, Lady Ella don't receive police protection as they aren't HRHs. I think that the Wessex children who technically as grandchildren of a monarch as HRHs but are being styled as children of an Earl probably don't receive 24/7 police protection. Andrew doesn't make the rules as to who gets protection, all royal protection was upgraded to 24/7 after the kidnap attempt on Anne in 1974. The minor royals the Kents, Gloucestors, even though they were HRHs received no police protection as late as the early 60's, the security on the royals has been upgraded over the years.
Some of the royals have already dropped the security for overseas visits and don't have any in the UK.
The report that was in the paper was in relation to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucestor not receiving 24/7 security from the British police on a trip to the US. It said nothing about them not having protection in the UK, Diana chose not to have protection after she separated from Charles but it was against police advice. With the overseas trips of minor royals the host countries are being asked to provide the covering protection so the cost is less for the British police, they don't have to send the teams over to cover. The minor royals aren't left with no protection, it's just not the British who are supplying it.
Beatrice and Eugenie are being condemned for the sins of their parents.
So far both have finished high school with good grades, one is at university the other plans to attend later this year.Beatrice has a steady boyfriend who has a fulltime job, graduated from a good university and who's family is discrete and neither he nor any member of his family has sold any expose to the tabloids. Both support their grandmother at all formal events ( last one being the unveiling of the QM statue) Both are prepared to be involved in charity events, Beatrice recently attended a reception for the Teenage cancer trust ( Hellomagazine covered it) Eugenie on her Gap Year went to a project her mother's charity Children in Crisis in involved in in Poland, she also made a private visit to Auschwitz. ( this was in January and it was a tiny article in the media) Bikini pictures get soo much more coverage! Beatrice has taken on a role with Children in Crisis, no official patronages have been alloted to them but then they are still completing their education. William got his first ones after he graduated from university and Harry after he graduated from Sandhurst.
Both girls are polite to the media, no following in aunt Anne's footsteps here. Both have gone with their father on his business trips, and at the reception for the G20 participants that the Queen gave at Buckingham Palace Beatrice accompanied her father. Neither are rebelling against the royal fold ( as in the past Marina Ogilvy, daughter of Princess Alexandra, nasty story in the tabloids as well as pictures of her being voted 'rear of the year' and wearing pvc plastic pants.) Some of us have been following royals for a while! Beatrice and Eugenie are quiet compared to Princess Margaret in her hey day, even the Duke of Kent in the 1950s.
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