Princess Beatrice went on 10 trips in four months – Britons paid £250k Royal | news

When Princess Beatrice was 19,

British taxpayers footed the £250k security bill for her 10 holidays in just four months.

He took a gap year where he visited Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, Egypt, Abu Dhabi and New York before going on to read History and History of Ideas at Goldsmiths College. In the first four months of 2011, she went on 10 vacations alone, including two trips each to St Barths and New York, three trips to Verbier, and trips to Aspen and Greece.

His police escort accompanied him everywhere, resulting in a shocking annual bill of £250,000 to the taxpayer for his security alone.

Princess Beatrice was born in 1988, and her younger sister, Princess Eugenie, was born in 1990. The pair had 24/7 security throughout their lives until it was controversially revoked in 2011, meaning they had round-the-clock security for 23 and 21 years, respectively.

Princess Eugenie’s security was lifted after she ran up a taxpayer bill of more than £100,000 for her gap year, as she was accompanied by police bodyguards during trips to India, the US, South Africa and Thailand.

Speaking about Eugenie’s gap year controversy, royal expert Richard Kay told Channel 5’s documentary Beatrice & Eugenie: Pampered Princess, “She was running from country to country as most middle-class young people do who take a gap year.

“But, of course, he also had police bodyguards with him. That meant we, the taxpayers, were paying for policemen to accompany him to the world’s hellfire.”

According to reports at the time, it was the then-Prince Charles who took steps to control spending.

However, he faced an “angry” response from his younger brother, who did not welcome the suggestion and reportedly even approached Queen Elizabeth for guidance.

Speaking on the program at the time, royal biographer Angela Levin said, “Prince Charles decided that, since he was unlikely to be a very senior royal, it was too much for the public to pay, so he stopped it.”

“Prince Andrew was so angry that he wrote a note to the Queen. He said he wanted them to be treated as proper royals. He didn’t want security officers to release them.”

The only royals with 24/7 police protection these days are the King, the Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and the Princess Royal do not have full-time security. However, they are protected when they are performing in public.