Worried about Beatrice/Eduardo

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First of all I know there’s a cloud hanging over the York daughters but I don’t want to get into that here as it’s been covered thoroughly on other threads - it’s more about the pictures of them arriving at the Philips wedding the other day.

Did anyone else think that things looked very strained between Beatrice and her husband? To me it looked like they were both putting on a show for the public but he has checked out. I really hope I am wrong because she’s got very small children to look after, and diabolical parents who are no support at all.
It’s very sad.

But as this thread demonstrates, most people don’t give a shiny shite about their marriage, much least ‘worry’ about them. They’re nothing more than a bit of gossip fodder.

I don't think you need worry. Either everything is fine between them, or it's not, and if it's not, staying in a broken relationship does no one any favours, least of all the children.

It isn't as though either is in a position where they'll struggle financially or practically should they separate - Edo has more than enough money for all of them.

They'll all be fine, whatever happens.

Andrew didn’t do this, but he was accused of inappropriate touching E’s backside. What appears to have happened (and it’s on video footage, widely available) occurred as they were looking at flowers and cards left after the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Andrew was rubbing her back, then leaning in face to face and holding her waist quite tightly, and she was bending over somewhat. He then squatted down and as he did he ran his hand right down her back and down over her backside.

This link might work for footage (I’ve not listened to the audio so can’t comment on that), or cut/paste & google ‘Prince Andrew touches Princess Eugenie on the butt / footage / in public grieving’ to find it.

It’s like Andrew forgot himself in public.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_gFsf77CJs&ra=m

I think you might be right, but it’s just a hunch obvs

I don’t feel sorry for her or her sister. I thought Beatrice did look very pale and tense at the wedding. I think it was the Daily Mail that had an article where a lip reader says she asked Edo to hold her hand.
He looks like a player to me. My hunch is she loves him a lot more than he loves her.

If she gets divorced she'll be alright. There'll be generous settlement/house/school fees paid etc

My guess is she has all the money, his Italian aristocratic links seem a bit tenuous to me. I think he’s a chancer.

They are

The Crown Estate belongs to the reigning Monarch "in right of the Crown," meaning it is held in trust for the nation rather than being the King’s private property. Because the Monarch cannot sell it and profits go straight to the UK Treasury, it operates as a public estate for the benefit of the people.

I am sick to death of posters saying the royal family own the Crown estates. If there was NO monarchy it would be handed back to the nation

Is this the same Bea poncing Daddy's contacts in the ME, posing as a tech guru on the strength of a degree in history for a firm restructured to rescue it from bankruptcy and refusing to have her finances ethics checked?

I think being booed at a knees-up might be the least of her worries.

They don’t get any money from the treasury. They aren’t working royals.

Edo has more than enough money for all of them.

I don't think he's stonkingly rich.

I do think he's riding her trust fund trade winds.

Maybe he has RBF. Or indigestion.

Whether he is rich or not (though I don’t think he really is all that rich), that’s not really the point. She has parents who she once depended on but are now known to have said and done the most terrible things and are literally in hiding, a pregnant sister who lives abroad and wants nothing to do with anything, and a wider family who is treating her like an unexploded radioactive bomb. And all this is going on in public. It’s not the best context for having marital issues. He doesn’t look or sound like he’s giving her much support with her family and her family won’t be giving her much support with him either.

Why do you say she is being treated like an unexploded bomb?
At the wedding on Saturday William kissed her on the cheeks so did Charles so I don't know what you are on about

Charles pays for both daughters to have the most supreme residences in Kensington Palace and St James Palace and they pay tiddly squat for it. Look it up! It's free! They are not working Royals , never have been, but they have a three bedroom cottage and a four-bedroomed apartment in palaces in London yet they have Rich husbands so do not tell me they are treated like unexploded bombs

I don’t see any evidence at all that the marriage is in trouble. Pure speculation.

Being uninvited to Ascot, and to Sandringham at Easter - that is definitely unexploded bomb territory. Also all the leaked stories to the papers this week suggesting the King may stop paying their London rent.

Why do they need apartments in Royal palaces anyway. They have family homes elsewhere. It’s ridiculous.

We can only hope. There is no reason they should have free apartment/house at St James Palace and Kensington Palace, they are not working royals, never have been. They only have them because their dodgy dad talked his Mother into it .

The optics are awful and if they had any sense they would voluntarily give up these properties .... Beatrice and husband have a £3.6M property in the Cotswolds, and Eugenie a £3M property in Portugal. They have a lot of brass neck both of them. Maybe I would have more sympathy with them if they had allowed the royal Ethics Committee to look at their business dealings, they were asked, they declined. Why don't they just go off and enjoy their very privileged lives.

As for Ascot and Sandringham, I'm sure they'll survive.
Hardly an unexploded bomb, they were greeted very warmly at the recent wedding.

Same.

I'm not remotely 'worried' but I've always got smarmy vibes from Edo, and don't think he'd have looked twice at Beatrice had she not been a Princess. I also don't think he's anywhere near as rich as people are making out.

I too have always got smarmy vibes from Edo @IcedPurple

I'm a royalist but can't say I've ever given them any thought

Yup. Definitely seems to be in this marriage for what he can get out of it.

He's not done anything 'wrong' afaik, but something just seems a bit sleazy about him. As someone said above, he comes across as a bit of a chancer.

He does have a resting smug face, I think, @IcedPurple. Seems very pleased with himself.

As for wrongdoing, I suppose it depends how much Edo was paid and for what (eg the reported ‘refurbishments’ that will now need to be looked at), and if was a proper contract or a ‘grift’.

I don’t know anything about him but he always looks sunburnt. For all we know he could be a perfectly pleasant chap. He’s apparently known Beatrice since they were young.

Obvs I have no idea if this is the case, but....I think if I were the mother of his (first) child I would feel VERY uncomfortable with the whole situation and actually be popping that my kid was in any way caught up with the sordid vibe. I think that might ultimately be the pressure point that will make this marriage tricky.