Expert says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will not meet Princess Eugenie's new daughter

Days after Princess Eugenie gave birth to her third child, a royal author said her father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is "unlikely" to meet his new grandchild.

His comments came amid reports that Sarah Fergusn travelled to Portugal to support her daughter.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Andrew Lownie, the author of “Entitled: The Rise And Fall Of The House Of York”, said "It is unlikely Andrew will see his new grandchild except through FaceTime."

"The daughters are walking a tightrope torn between residual loyalty to their parents and pressure from their husbands," he said.

Commenting on Sarah Ferguson’s bond with her druthers Princesses Beatrice, Eugenie, Lownie said that the close "tripod" relationship that was once proudly described has not entirely collapsed.

"There has been plenty of scandal over the years and the daughters have not cut themselves loose largely because they are cut from the same cloth and very much under the thumb of their mother," he observed.

There has been plenty of scandal over the years and the daughters have not cut themselves loose largely because they are cut from the same cloth and very much under the thumb of their mother," he observed.

Relations with their father, however, grow more strained with each fresh disclosure.

Princess Eugenie announced on Tuesday the birth of her third child with husband Jack Brooksbank.

Eugenie, the younger daughter of ‌the monarch's disgraced brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, already has two sons, August, who was born in February 2021, and Ernest, born in June 2023.