‘Real reason’ Princess Beatrice and Eugenie won’t become senior working royals

and are not set to become senior working members of the Royal Family due to the “toxic” York brand, it has been revealed.

Speaking to , royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams said: “The sisters occasionally do royal duties or attend events. I can’t see them doing more, but it could change.”

Discussing the possibility of them becoming working royals, he added: “The problem is the York brand has a toxic theme.”

Speaking on their connection to , Mr Fitzwilliams added: “It’s impossible, that’s the problem. They have their own jobs and [are both] happily married.”

Beatrice, 36, and Eugenie, 34, are close to their father, who was forced to step down from royal duties in 2019.

Speaking further about their future prospects, he added that he doesn’t see “their work increasing”.

He added: “It’s very difficult from their point of view. But equally, the royals have to bear in mind the public relations consequences with absolutely anything to do with the Yorks.

“I don’t see their work increasing. So in different circumstances, if Andrew were still a working royal, then most certainly I would have thought Beatrice and Eugenie could have done more.”

Eugenie, who is mum to August, three, and one-year-old Ernest, works full-time as the director at Hauser & Wirth, an art gallery in Mayfair, London.

works as a strategist at a technology firm called Afiniti, where she is the vice president of partnerships and strategy.

Also mum to three-year-old Sienna, Beatrice .

Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi – who was described as ‘tiny and perfect” by her father – was born at 12.57pm on January 22 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She weighed 4 pounds and 5 ounces.