A quiet, decades-long effort has pared down the official House of Windsor troupe with irreversible consequences. What’s a royal 30-something to do?
an outstanding 21-year-old junior equestrian named Zara Phillips announced that spread-betting company Cantor Index would sponsor her first senior season on the riding circuit. The arrangement wasn’t unusual for her peers, but it made national news outside of the trades. At the time, Phillips, Princess Anne’s second child, happened to be 10th in line to the throne. By signing the deal, she became the first British royal ever with a corporate sponsorship for a sport.
As veteran royal expert Sally Bedell Smith recently told me, Charles has already drafted the royal team for his reign, and none of the royal cousins is on it. “He said some years ago that he really wanted it to be himself and Camilla, William and Kate, and Harry, and that was it. I think of the balcony appearance after the diamond jubilee. Prince Philip was in the hospital, but his siblings were annoyed that they weren’t included,” she said. “Harry and Meghan are out of the picture.
For the rest of the grandchildren, exit planning began much earlier. The British system was designed to give automatic financial support to a monarch and their heir through private wealth, but the extended family has received funding at the discretion of the government since the 18th century.
For years, Prince Andrew was Charles’s main adversary in the debate over titles and the size of the royal family. He and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson decided to give their daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, HRH titles upon their birth, and palace courtiers have said that their status as “blood princesses” is important for him. In 2011, Andrew was reportedly upset when the palace cut off the security afforded to his daughters.
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