'Deeply Involved' Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie Reportedly Face Exile Over Jeffrey Epstein Links

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are reportedly at risk of losing their royal homes in the UK as the fallout from their parents' links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein deepens, with author Andrew Lownie publicly dismissing the notion that the sisters are innocent bystanders.​

The news came after a tranche of court documents, widely referred to as the 'Epstein files,' was released by the US Department of Justice earlier this year, naming both princesses repeatedly throughout. The documents emerged against an already fraught backdrop — their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, had been stripped of his royal titles in late 2025 and ordered to vacate Royal Lodge in Windsor. Newly released emails from 2011, a full year after Andrew had publicly claimed to have ended all contact with Epstein, allegedly show him writing to the convicted sex offender: 'It would seem we are in this together.'

What the Epstein Files Reveal About the Princesses

Both sisters appear throughout the documents with notable frequency. Eugenie's name is reportedly referenced more than 300 times, though volume of mention in a sprawling legal dossier does not, on its own, indicate culpability. The more awkward detail concerns a 2009 visit to Epstein. Emails in the files suggest their mother, Sarah Ferguson, brought both daughters to see him shortly after his release from prison that year, at a time when the sisters were 19 and 20 years old.

Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled, his biography of the Duke of York, has been bracingly direct on the matter. 'They weren't five-year-old girls when they were taken to see Epstein,' he said. 'They were grown-ups. There's a big campaign to say they are innocents caught up in the shellfire, but they're not, they're deeply involved.' It is a framing that cuts sharply against the prevailing portrayal of Beatrice and Eugenie as decent, low-profile women who were simply unfortunate enough to carry a compromised surname.​

Royal commentator Robert Jobson offered a more generous reading in People magazine, though it carried its own damning implication. 'They are pretty torn because they believed their father,' he said. 'Just like the late Queen and Charles, Andrew told them all the same story — that he had done nothing wrong. My understanding is they feel pretty duped by the whole thing.'​

How the Epstein Scandal Threatens Their Royal Residences

Neither princess holds an official working royal role, which places their residential arrangements in an institutional grey area that now looks considerably less secure. Princess Eugenie, 35, lives at Ivy Cottage within the Kensington Palace complex with her husband Jack Brooksbank and their two young sons, the family dividing its time between London and Portugal for Jack's professional commitments.

Beatrice, 37, moved further from the royal fold in 2021 when she and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi purchased a six-bedroom property in the Cotswolds for £3.5 million. The couple live there with their two daughters and Edoardo's nine-year-old son Wolfie, roughly an hour and a half from the Windsor estate their father recently departed. Before the Cotswolds, Beatrice had been based at a property within St. James' Palace in Westminster.​

There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either princess, and that distinction is worth stating plainly given the volume of noise surrounding this story. But royal institutions, as history repeatedly demonstrates, are not governed solely by legal thresholds. Sources suggest both women fear they are being tainted by proximity, and that the palace's once-protective instincts towards the York family have quietly begun to erode.

Beatrice and Eugenie have kept an unusually low profile since the latest files came to light. Eugenie has been spotted publicly just once, at a contemporary art fair in London.