Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie Hug after Prince Andrew’s titles were stripped

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie shared an embrace in their first public appearance together since then King Charles began the process of removing the royal titles of his father, the former Prince Andrew.

Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, were seen hugging each other on the street in London’s Mayfair district on the afternoon of Thursday, November 6. They were both warmly dressed in long coats as they embraced in front of a parked car.

The sisters’ embrace came three days after Eugenie was spotted out with her husband, Jack Brooksbankin West London, which also marked their first public appearance since Buckingham Palace announced it Eugenie’s father has officially lost all his royal titles.

On October 30, the palace announced that King Charles, 76, began the process of removing all royal titles and styling from Andrew, 65, who shares his daughters with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson66.

Formerly titled His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Andrew will now be called Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, using the royal family’s surname for direct descendants of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

He has also been ordered to surrender his lease of the Royal Lodgethe 30-room mansion in Windsor where he allegedly lived rent-free for decades.

The news came almost two weeks after Andrew released a seismic statement that he would no longer use his royal titles and honors as it distracts from the work of the King and the Royal Family. He made the announcement on October 17, amid renewed scrutiny of the scope of Andrews ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Although the removal of Andrew’s titles is unprecedented in modern memory, he had not been a royal royal for several years previously. His step back from public life began in November 2019, when he gave an interview to the BBC News night about his relationship with Epstein – who died by suicide in 2019 pending trial – it was widely interpreted as a setback.

Days after the interview aired, Andrew, who at the time was widely known as the Duke of York, stepped back from his royal role. In January 2022, Queen Elizabeth gave birth to her second son military titles and patronage after a judge rejected his attempt to have Virginia Giuffrepp sexual assault trial against him dismissed.

Giuffre had alleged that she had been trafficked to Andrew by Epstein. Andrew, who always denied any wrongdoing, settled with Giuffre out of court for a secret sum, and hon died of suicide in April at the age of 41.

Giuffre’s posthumous memoirs, Nobody’s girldetailing her allegation of trafficking to Andrewwas published on 21 Oct.

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PEOPLE understand that Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will retain their royal titles in accordance with King George V’s Letters Patent of 1917, being daughters of a son of a sovereign. They both remain princesses and will continue to have the style of Her Royal Highness.

As for their mother, Ferguson will no longer use her Duchess of York title.