Princess Eugenie with sister Beatrice, Trooping the Colour 2010
It was claimed that the Duke of York’s daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, are to be stripped of their 24-hour police protection. The round-the-clock security measures afforded to Eugenie and Beatrice will end following a row about the costs of their bodyguards, reports say.
The claims come as Green politician Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said the police protection list needed thorough examination. She said: “It’s about time that the protection list was examined properly, and not simply wait for protected people to die before they can be crossed off the list. Not only do we protect partying junior royals, but also have 24/7 protection of at least one home of the often-absent multi-millionaire Blairs, in addition to protecting multi-millionaire ex-despotic dictators like Musharraf. I just don’t understand why the taxpayer should pick up this very costly protection bill.”
Neither the Metropolitan police or Buckingham Palace said they could comment on matters of security following today’s reports.
The number of people who receive Scotland Yard protection is the subject of an ongoing secret review chaired by a retired Whitehall mandarin. The cost of safeguarding junior members of the Royal Family is one aspect that has come under considerable scrutiny during the review.
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