Prince William has "full trust" in Princesses Beatrice and Princess Eugenie amid the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaks, according to GB News' Royal Correspondent.
The Prince of Wales was joined by his cousins at a Buckingham Palace garden party earlier this week in a strong show of solidarity.
In the first episode of The Royal Record, GB News' brand new podcast, Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker and Digital Royal Editor Svar Nanan-Sen discussed the likelihood of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie becoming working royals.
Speaking about the York sisters' appearance at the garden party, Svar said: "We know that this isn't going to suddenly open a doorway for Eugenie and Beatrice to take up royal engagements or to become working royals.
Prince William has ‘full trust’ in Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie
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"We did do a GB News membership poll last month asking our readers, 'Should Beatrice and Eugenie be included in the Royal Family's inner circle?'.
"Our members were split on this. We had 35 per cent voting yes, but 61 per cent said no, with four per cent saying they were unsure.
"So the overall majority is that our readers do not want them to become working royals. Why do you think that is?"
Cameron replied: "The problem with Eugenie and Beatrice, I say problem, it's obviously not their fault, is that they still have their father, Prince Andrew, being such a taboo at the moment.
GB News' Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker claims the Prince of Wales trusts Beatrice and Eugenie
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"His polling is beyond horrific, it's worse than Harry and Meghan's. Clearly, we had the disaster of the Newsnight interview and all the allegations surrounding him, all of which he denies. But perhaps that might be part of it."
The Duke of York stepped down as a working royal in 2019, and he was later stripped of his honorary military titles in 2022.
Cameron continued: "Also Beatrice and Eugenie, I suspect, don't want to be full-time working members of the Royal Family, they have full-time jobs.
"They'll step in if, if necessary. But they're also young mothers, they have their own families. I think they like not having to be in the spotlight all the time.
Kate and Princess Beatrice photographed together last year
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"The constraints that come with being a full-time working member of the Royal Family in terms of security arrangements, the constant scrutiny. So I'm getting the sense that perhaps they don't want to.
"Princess Eugenie has got her own Instagram account, for example. She wouldn't be able to do that as a working member of the Royal Family, her staff would have to do it."
The Royal Correspondent added: "Prince William and his cousins are close enough with Beatrice and Eugenie to realise that even if they are close with Harry and Meghan, it doesn't really matter.
"William might have beef with his brother, but there's not much they can do about that. Also, I think they're all mature enough, hopefully, to realise that you can be friends with everybody in your family if you so wish.
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"When it comes to Beatrice and Eugenie, if there wasn't any trust with members of the Royal Family, we wouldn't have seen them at that garden party.
"The Royal Family, everything about them, is about images and the way things are perceived by those images.
"Seeing Prince William, the future King and the next King, with Beatrice and Eugenie, shows me that they're very trusted and very loved members of the Royal Family."