Jo of Palatine
Heir Apparent
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Here's the link to an article about Eugenie with the recents pics:
A day in the life of a young Royal: Movida, cancer ward, Cipriani... then Whisky Mist
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I read this comment left after this article - unfortunately there is a lot of truth in it, IMHO:
"Fuelled by the press into hysteria, during the death and funeral of princess Diana, you all insisted that the young royals be brought up differently to the way their parents, notably the queen and prince Charles, were. This is the result. You can't turn the clock back, now. And that previous upbringing, incidentally, is also responsible for princess Anne. But you didn't think about that, of course. Be careful what you wish for, you may get it. and look what you will be left with."
Problem is that while the princesses don't behave like Royality used to do, they don't behave either in a way that the public can connect with. Why do we never see them leaving a bookstore with a shopping bag? Eating an icecream cone on a bench in a park? Or go to a museum instead of a nightclub? They appear so fluffy-headed, so very willing to adopt the lifestyle of celebs. But of course they have been locked away at posh boarding-schools for most of their lifes while their mother has flitted from one party to the next, their father from one golf course to the next and their grandmother has done a life of duties which they have known would never be theirs. They are still so young and are only accustomed to this kind of life.
British princesses are rarely invited to state functions where they are seated next to people who were invited not for their celebrity but for their merit. From their youth the Swedish prince and princesses have mingled with noble prize winners, had to help taking care of their demented grandmother and been raised not only by queen Silvia but by princess Lilian as well who surely has had her own to say about Royal life in changing times. I doubt Silvia tended to allow her daughters to go into nightclubs till the early hours but she was raised in a mix for formal Brazilian-German system, so surely had very firm ideas about the raising of daughters who are princesses. It is this laissez-faire way of Sarah's and her own lack of direction besides making money that steered the york princesses to the lifestyle they nowadays enjoy.
I'll give them another year for Beatrice and two for Eugenie to come to their senses, grow up a bit and find a lifestyle of their own on enjyoing a world that is not only consisting of meeting and greeting celebrities. I still like the statement by Crown Princess Mary of Denmark about what she sees as one of the greatest advantages of her new position. She said that as a princess one could meet and talk to all those fascinating people who are impossible to meet as a normal citizen and learn from them. That's true for the York princesses as well. If Beatrice had wanted she could have helped in lots and lots of projects that help communities in her gap years. I bet her uncle Charles could have given her sound advice on what to do. Instead she helped rich ladies with their exclusive shopping at Selfridges....
Let's see what Eugenie is up to in her gap year.