Princess Beatrice : Princess without a cause

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Princess without a cause: What will Beatrice do next? - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Princess Beatrice was just eight years old when, according to reports, her mother first put her on a diet. There was, at the time, a lot of strain at home. Her parents, having announced their separation after just six years of marriage, had recently finalised their divorce. Sarah Ferguson, who herself had once been dubbed by the tabloids as the 'Duchess of Pork', was now cut off from financial support from the Royal Household, and had recently accepted a contract promoting the slimming brand WeightWatchers. Soon, her attention and scrutiny turned to her own daughter. "I think over-eating sort of runs in the family," she was said to have explained to journalists at the time.
Such are the pressures of a childhood lived out in front of the intense scrutiny of the global media. Now a young woman, Princess Beatrice's every move (and every kilo) have long been a subject for public debate
Since she was small, her close, but gaffe-prone parents have consistently been the black sheep of the royal household. As a result, the young princess has always had to perform a high-wire act to try to retain the approval of both the public, and her grandmother the Queen, while also remaining loyal to both her parents, who teeter perennially on the edge of a state of disgrace.
Now 26, Princess Beatrice herself seems to be in the grip of a quarter-life crisis. Though officially still a Princess, she has been excluded from Buckingham Palace's payroll as a working royal, as a result of efforts to streamline the institution's finances and it's public image. Out of a job since December, she seems to be struggling to find her own role. She is regularly pilloried in the Press for being a "benefits scrounger," because she does not undertake official royal duties, yet lives in a "grace and favour" home.
Princess Beatrice is said to have been hurt by accusations that she is work-shy. Up until December, she was employed as a junior producer at Sony, but quit her job after hackers attacked the company's private database, and exposed details of her salary, which was revealed to be just £20,000 a year.
Since then, she has mostly been dealing with the transition by jetting off on a string of luxury holidays. She has taken 11 in the six months since she quit her job, according to the closely-watching media who are only too happy to keep a tally of her every extravagance.

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