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This may very well have been why Sarah was at Balmoral - to discuss what Beatrice's future was within the family as she was no longer working by then.
If she's hunting out work for herself this way, I'm sure BP/CH & whoever else is involved will pounce.
I agree on all three points. That "PR" person made a statement that has taken on a life all it's own and is now being used as a club to beat Beatrice over the head.Of course there is a choice - she carries on doing it under her own auspices and not those of the Court.
But, the "slimmed down" court was a one-off statement made by a PR person in 1992. Not Charles, never repeated.
Also - organisations write and request patronages and they dont always choose the top team.
Haven't they, in a sense?
They keep stressing that her events are not official, and they don't appear in the court circular.
But if Beatrice wracks up dozens of patronages, it may prove difficult to dislodge her without Charles coming across as a bully.
Upper class women and female members of the aristocracy have patronages (actually, so do older males). Hospitals, nurserys. schools, womens groups, supporting local health issues, rural issues, etc etc. That's how it is in the UK.
So she can go on collecting as many patronages as she likes, and the Queen doesn't have to do a thing. It doesn't cost the public purse a penny, she is (hopefully) happy with what she is doing and the patronages get publicity and support.
Making Charles out to be a villain is a nonsense. He doesnt get involved in what she does. The issue is COST, not Beatrice, Eugenie or anyone else personally. That is perceived cost as well as real.
No cost, happy princess, happy patronage - win-win-win.
Get rid of the idea that quantity means she will end working as a fully fledged royal - cos it just doesnt work that way.
I agree on all three points. That "PR" person made a statement that has taken on a life all it's own and is now being used as a club to beat Beatrice over the head.
Let's be clear here, none of us know how much money Andrew does or doesn't have nor how much he does or doesn't give each of his daughters. For that matter we don't know if trusts were set up for the the Queen's children or grand children at birth. We don't even know if they want careers but basically they don't have to have one. Most of their contemporaries dabble a little and play a lot yet we don't see inches of invective in the rags about them. No, it's only the York's and at the moment Beatrice is the target.
Poor 'Charles the Mean and Grumpy', is variously portrayed as being either narked or incensed at the mere mention of the House Of York and particularly at Beatrice who's trying to barge her way into royal life. But hang about . . . she is as royal as his kids! It's as if they don't acknowledge that she is the Queen's granddaughter just as Wills and Harry are her grandsons. In that they are equal.
People also assert that Charles loathes all his siblings, Andrew and his daughters in particular. Worse, that he will go to any lengths the 'cast them out of the Kingdom' so to speak. Yet we don't see any evidence of this. In fact, we don't know how well they all get on except that the paps following Harry spotted him spending time with the Yorks on holiday around Andrew's birthday.
We know that both William and Harry socialise with Beatrice and Eugenie in the poshest clubs and have no reason to suspect they did not join them at their after function parties at Clarence House. Even Zara used to, riding permitting, before she married Mike.
Someone mentioned that Beatrice's dyslexia may have made her job too difficult. That too is a possibility, after all, we all know that school is different to the the job. She may have had to reassess her chosen career. But the fact is we don't know and really, is there any reason we should?
Y'know, its even very possible that Beatrice doesn't give a fig (newton or otherwise) if she's an "official" working member of the Royal Family or not. Perhaps we're all making a mountain out of a molehill here.
I would think there's a very strong possibility that Beatrice is working for her charities and patronages for no other reason than she's actually very interested in what they are and what they do and feels she wants to do what she can for them.
If she feels that her time and energies should be directed towards this calling as her future, I would think that people would admire her altruism and caring heart rather than whine about getting a "real" job. Not many among us would or could have the opportunities Beatrice has to make an impact on other's lives and do it because they want to and not because they are expected to.
Just a bit of food for thought. Now I'm hungry again..... ahh such is life.
The consort of the sovereign is also one. So when Charles is King, he, Camilla, William and Harry would all have to be out of the country for Andrew and Bea to be needed to sign stuff.
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Princess Beatrice out and about in London yesterday evening, December 4, 2013:
** Pic ** dailymailarticle: The cut-price princess: Beatrice dines at trendy new London restaurant.. ** vimeo video **
Beatrice's necklace looks exactly like the necklace Catherine wore to the movie to me, how odd.
I remember Sarah once being quoted saying she taught her daughters to smile for the photographers because "no-one wants to see a grumpy princess".It does appear to be the same necklace. Very nice of Beatrice to say hello to the paps.
This year Christmas Carols by Candlelight was in aid of Children in Crisis in which HRH Princess Beatrice is a global ambassador of , she was a guest reader at this event, sadly no pictures
Love seeing so much of HRH Princess Beatrice. Her bright eyes and smile are a real treat. And she always looks genuinely happy to be helping out her patronages.