Princess Beatrice Criticized For Not Doing This At Princess Eugenie’s Royal Wedding

Princess Beatrice was recently criticized by royal fans for not helping Princess Eugenie on her wedding day. The 30-year-old princess served as her younger sister’s maid of honor on Friday.

Upon arriving at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Princess Beatrice walked up to the church with her mom, Sarah Ferguson. They entered the chapel and sat in the front row without waiting for Princess Eugenie’s arrival.

Princess Beatrice appeared to be preoccupied with chatting with the Duchess of York, who she seemed distracted during Prince Philip’s arrival in the chapel. Princess Eugenie arrived with her dad, Prince Andrew, and the Duke of York was also the one that assisted Princess Eugenie with fixing her dress.

Terri-Ann Williams, a journalist for Daily Mail, noted how Lady Louise of Windsor was tasked to take care of the pageboys and bridesmaids, which she actually did during her cousin’s special day.

After the ceremony, Princess Beatrice once again didn’t help her younger sister when she went on board the carriage for her wedding procession. However, it was Prince Andrew once again that assisted Princess Eugenie.

Williams noted that Princess Beatrice may have been tasked to tend to Ferguson throughout Princess Beatrice’s wedding because this was the first time that she and Prince Philip reunited.

But Princess Beatrice played another special role during her sister’s nuptials. She was tasked to read an excerpt for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s piece “The Great Gatsby.”

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced – or seemed to face – the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished – and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd,” she read.