Neither Princess Beatrice nor Princess Eugenie has said a word publicly since police arrived at their father's door on Thursday morning and placed him under arrest.
Sources close to the family say both women are 'in a state' after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor became the first senior British royal in modern history to be arrested. The 66-year-old spent roughly 11 hours in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office before being released under investigation,according to GB News.
It happened on his birthday. Thames Valley Police arrived at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate at around 8 a.m. with six unmarked vehicles. By 10.03 a.m., a spokesman confirmed the arrest.
King Charles responded within hours in astatement released by Buckingham Palace. 'The law must take its course,' he said, pledging the family's 'full and wholehearted support and co-operation' with the investigation.
The two sisters have responded in strikingly different ways. Not to the arrest itself, which caught everyone off guard, but to their father's slow-motion disgrace over the past several months.
Eugenie, 35, had alreadycut off contact with Andrew before Thursday. Insiders toldthe Daily Mailin January that there was 'no contact at all, nothing' between them. She did not visit him at Christmas. As co-founder of the Anti-Slavery Collective, a charity combating sex trafficking, Andrew's refusal to apologise to Epstein's victims reportedly left her deeply frustrated. She now lives in Portugal with her husband, Jack Brooksbank.
Beatrice, 37, has taken a softer approach. She was photographed horse riding with Andrew just last month and recently invited him to the christening of her younger daughter Athena. He turned up but skipped the pub celebration afterwards.
Royal biographer Robert Jobson toldPeoplethat both daughters 'feel pretty duped' because Andrew had always insisted he did nothing wrong.
A family friend offered a different picture. 'The sisters are not abandoning their father,' the source toldHello! magazine. 'But everything is obviously very strained and hard.'
The arrest is only part of it. What has reportedly shaken Beatrice and Eugenie just as badly is what surfaced about their mother.
Source: International Business Times UK
