Andrew, Sarah Ferguson reminded of their grandkids: ‘Will they grow up proud of them?’

ITV writer Chris Riches just penned an emotional piece, in response to Princess Eugenie’s pregnancy announcement and it talks about the new baby on the way, but also the other grandkids that both sisters share amongst eachother.

For those unversed, Princess Eugenie is mother to two sons: August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, born in February 2021, and Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, born in May 2023. While her sister Beatrice is already a girl mom too. To a daughter named Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi born September 2021 and a second daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi born January 2025.

He penned his question about their future thoughts, and take on their grandparents in a piece for Express UK.

In it he wrote, “soon Andrew and Fergie, both now aged 66, will be proud grandparents of five youngsters aged no older than five. But will those children grow up to be proud of their grandparents?”

In his eyes it might not be at this exact moment, “not just because of their past friendships with paedophile US financier Jeffrey Epstein, or that they continued those associations after they publicly claimed they had ended them,” he clarified before adding, “no, not just because of that - but because their grandparents' behaviour since the Epstein Files were made public has been nothing short of cowardly.”

He also referenced both grandparents separately and said, where their grandmother is concerned, she’s “basically vanished off the face of the planet”. Apart from the small public sighting. Similarly, their grandfather spent part of his 66th birthday in jail after being accused of misconduct while in public office, as a result of his alleged actions as Trade Envoy to the UK.

In the eyes of Mr Riches, “What they could do is show some moral courage” simply by helping authorities with their knowledge about Jeffrey Epstein.

Not only because it would take the ‘heat off’ of their daughters, but it would allow the ex-Yorks to show their grandchildren they ‘did the right thing’. Before concluding he also posed the same question again, and added, “The grandparents have an opportunity to display some moral fibre. But will they take it?”