Beatrice and Eugenie face calls to have titles removed

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00:00Beatrice and Eugenie face calls to have titles removed.

00:04Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice risk losing their royal titles due to the downfall of their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

00:12Just days before the royal family announced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was being stripped of his titles,

00:17Princess Beatrice was seen meeting with Saudi investors at the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton.

00:22Australian journalist Amanda Platel suggested stripping Beatrice and Princess Eugenie of their titles

00:27would be the kindest thing to do for them.

00:30For the very survival of the monarchy.

00:32Beatrice's Saudi John proves that their HRH status will only end in scrutiny, tears, and then most likely abject humiliation.

00:42Amanda Platel told Daily Mail,

00:44In a modern Britain, it is no longer possible to pursue both royal duty and lucrative business interests,

00:50especially where foreign autocracies are involved.

00:53Princess Beatrice isn't a working member of the royal family,

00:56but she and Princess Eugenie have benefited from their proximity to the throne.

01:01As Beatrice should know from the fate of her parents,

01:04you can't immerse yourself in the world of high finance one day and then represent the royal family the next.

01:10Especially at a time of existential crisis for the monarchy,

01:12Amanda Platel said,

01:14I fear she may have inherited her parents' pig-headed obliviousness to public mood,

01:20unaware that such ill-conceived events only exposed the royals to scandal,

01:24Platel continued.

01:26Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson's ties to Jeffrey Epstein affected their public careers.

01:31And now, Princess Eugenie could suffer similar consequences.

01:36The optics were terrible.

01:37Princess Beatrice fawning over some of the state's most wealthy citizens.

01:42At a hotel notorious for being central to the Arab state's violent purge of hundreds of its most powerful royals,

01:48tycoons, and ministers, Platel suggested,

01:50nakukos.

01:53chips.

01:54However,

01:54microcosider is what we are buried in,

01:55including the