Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie Reunite with Royals at Palace Christmas Lunch as Dad Andrew Is Shut Out
- - Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie Reunite with Royals at Palace Christmas Lunch as Dad Andrew Is Shut Out
Janine HenniDecember 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie attend Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace on Dec. 16, 2025 -
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie attended King Charles' Christmas lunch together on Dec. 16
The royal family event was also attended by Kate Middleton, Prince William, their children and more
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie's father, the former Prince Andrew, has been lying low since the King stripped his royal titles amid renewed scrutiny around his links to the late Jeffrey Epstein
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie made a united appearance at King Charles' Christmas lunch amid scrutiny around their father, the former Prince Andrew, after his royal titles were stripped.
On Dec. 16, Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, were photographed driving together as they attended the King's Christmas luncheon at Buckingham Palace in London.
Photos showed Princess Beatrice driving, while Princess Eugenie, dressed festively dressed in candy cane earrings, rode in the passenger's seat.
Another photo showed Eugenie in a car with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, and one of their sons appeared to be in the backseat.
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Jack Brooksbank and Princess Eugenie attend Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace on Dec. 16, 2025
The royal sisters smiled as they were photographed outside the palace lunch, which Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, Lady Sarah Chatto and more royal family members also attended.
The Christmas lunch is a holiday tradition for the royal family that King Charles has continued from his late mother Queen Elizabeth's reign. The King, 77, has held the event at both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle in recent years, bringing the family together in a private gathering before Christmas, which is always celebrated at the Sandringham Estate in the Norfolk countryside.
Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie attended the lunch together a few days after the Dec. 12 christening of Beatrice's youngest daughter, Athena, in a private ceremony that Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, attended despite not being photographed.
Andrew, 65, and Ferguson, 66, have been lying low since King Charles stripped his brother of his royal titles in October. The monarch made the move around renewed interest in Andrew's ties to the late, disgraced Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges in August 2019.
Andrew's links to Epstein set his step back from public life in motion following a bombshell BBC Newsnight interview about their relationship that November. The former Duke of York, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, stepped back from his working royal role after it aired, and in January 2022, Queen Elizabeth stripped her second son of his military titles and patronages after a judge rejected his attempt to have Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s sexual assault lawsuit against him dismissed.
Andrew then settled with Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41, out of court for an undisclosed sum.
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The former Prince Andrew goes horseback riding on Dec. 16, 2025
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In photographs taken on the same day as the royal family's Christmas lunch gathering in London, Andrew was photographed horseback riding in the rain in Windsor Park.
PEOPLE understands that Andrew will not attend any of the royal family's Christmas celebrations.
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