Princess Eugenie of York

Infobox British Royalty|royal
name =Princess Eugenie
title =Princess Eugenie of York


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royal house =House of Windsor
full name =Eugenie Victoria HelenaAs a titled royal, Eugenie holds no surname, but, when one "is" used, it is Mountbatten-Windsor (or her father's territorial designation, York)]
titles ="HRH" Princess Eugenie of York
father =Prince Andrew, Duke of York
mother =Sarah, Duchess of York
date of birth =Birth date and age|1990|03|23|df=yes
place of birth =Portland Hospital, London
date of christening =23 December 1990
place of christening =Sandringham House, Norfolk
occupation =Student, Marlborough College|

Princess Eugenie of York (Eugenie Victoria Helena; pron-en|ˈjuː.ʒəni ["The Duchess in Hull", [http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=19725 Episode One] , Part Two (aired 19 May 2008, ITV1)] ; born 23 March 1990) is a member of the British Royal Family and a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Eugenie is sixth in the Line of succession to the British Throne and has been since her birth in 1990. She is the Queen's sixth grandchild and third granddaughter.

Early life

Princess Eugenie was born on 23 March 1990 at the Portland Hospital in London. Her father is Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the third child and the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Her mother is Sarah, Duchess of York, ("née" Sarah Ferguson), the daughter of the late Major Ronald Ferguson and the late Susan Barrantes. She was named after HM Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She has one older sister, Princess Beatrice, who was born in 1988.

She was christened on 23 December 1990, at the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, the first royal baby to have a public christening. She was christened by the Bishop of Norwich. Her godparents were: James Ogilvy, Captain Alastair Ross; Mrs. Ronald (Sue) Ferguson (her step-grandmother); Mrs. Julia Dodd-Noble; and Miss Louise Blacker.

As a granddaughter of the British monarch in the male line, Eugenie was born a Princess of the United Kingdom with the style "Her Royal Highness", and is therefore styled Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York.

Education

As a small child, Eugenie attended Winkfield Montessori in Surrey (1992-93), and then Upton House School in Windsor (1993-95). She later attended two preparatory schools as a day girl: Coworth Park School in Surrey from 1995 to 2001, and St George's School near Windsor Castle, from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2008, she boarded at Marlborough College in Wiltshire. Princess Eugenie's A-level results, announced in August 2008, appear to be the best grades posted by a senior member of the royal family. The Queen's 18-year-old granddaughter achieved A grades in art and English literature and a B in history of art. Princess Eugenie reportedly plans to take a gap year before continuing her education in the autumn of 2009. [ [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044918/Princess-Eugenie-gets-grades-A-levels.html Mail Online — Princess Eugenie gets top grades in her A-levels] ]

Health

In October 2002 Princess Eugenie, then aged twelve, underwent back surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London to correct scoliosis. She made a full recovery and is not expected to undergo any further surgery for that condition. The Queen, who was on an overseas tour at the time of the operation, was kept well informed of her granddaughter's operation and recovery.

Home life

Princess Eugenie's parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, separated in 1992 when their daughters were still very young. Their divorce was finalized in 1996, and they agreed to share custody of the children. The divorce was amicable; the Duke and Duchess remain close friends and energetic "co-parents." Due to her age Eugenie does not carry out official royal duties but sometimes makes appearances with the Royal Family at events. When not at boarding school, a great deal of her time is spent with her family at Royal Lodge in Windsor.

Public appearances

Princess Eugenie has attended many public/state functions, such as Trooping the Colour and The Queen's 80th Birthday. She and her sister Princess Beatrice were guests at the Concert for Diana organised by their cousins Prince William and Prince Harry, in memory of their late mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Princess appeared in the April 2008 issue of Tatler, a magazine famous for documenting the parties and social circles of the aristocratic and very wealthy. In the interview, she described her grandmother, HM Queen Elizabeth II, as "one of the most amazing women ever" and her parents, Sarah Ferguson and The Duke of York as "the best divorced couple" she knew.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

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*23 March 1990 –: "Her Royal Highness" Princess Eugenie of York

Arms

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crest = A Coronet composed of four Crosses formy and four Strawberry Leaves
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escutcheon = Quarterly 1^st and 4^th gules three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langed azure 2^nd or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second 3^rd azure a harp or stringed argent
supporters = Dexter a lion rampant gardant Or imperially crowned Proper, sinister a unicorn Argent, armed, crined and unguled Or, gorged with a coronet Or composed of crosses patée and fleurs de lis a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also Or
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other_elements = The whole differenced by a Label of five points Argent the centre and the exterior points each charged with a Thistle proper.
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symbolism = As with the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom. The first and third quarters are the arms of England, the second of Scotland, the fourth of Ireland. The use of thistles in her Arms continues the trend in royal heraldry (cf. the Arms of Prince William of Wales) of using charges from the maternal line, as the arms of her mother feature a crest bearing a thistle.
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Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Eugenie of York
2= 2. Prince Andrew, Duke of York
3= 3. Sarah Ferguson
4= 4. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark
5= 5. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
6= 6. Ronald Ferguson
7= 7. Susan Wright
8= 8. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
9= 9. Princess Alice of Battenberg
10= 10. George VI of the United Kingdom
11= 11. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
12= 12. Andrew Henry Ferguson
13= 13. Marian Montagu-Douglas-Scott
14= 14. FitzHerbert Wright
15= 15. Doreen Wingfield
16= 16. George I of Greece
17= 17. Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia
18= 18. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
19= 19. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
20= 20. George V of the United Kingdom
21= 21. Princess Mary of Teck
22= 22. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
23= 23. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck
24= 24. Algernon Francis Holford Ferguson
25= 25. Margaret Brand
26= 26. Herbert Andrew Montagu-Douglas-Scott
27= 27. Marie Josephine Edwards
28= 28. Henry FitzHerbert Wright
29= 29. Muriel Harriet Fletcher
30= 30. Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount of Powerscourt
31= 31. Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie

In the news

In March 2007 The Mail on Sunday reported [Nicholl, Katie. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444408&in_page_id=1770 Her Royal Blogness Princess Eugenie] , "Daily Mail", 24 March 2007. Accessed 30 May 2008.] that the princess, then just turned 17, had a MySpace page. The story was picked up in Australia by The Daily Telegraph. [ [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21443801-5001021,00.html Eugenie the modern royal] , "Daily Telegraph", 26 March 2007. Accessed 30 May 2008.] The majority of comments left on The Mail on Sunday story identified the page as a hoax.

In June 2008 it was reported that Princess Eugenie was spotted "frolicking" naked at the end of terms at her college in England. [ [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/14/princess.eugenie/index.html Princess 'caught frolicking naked'] , "CNN", 14 June 2008. Accessed 6 July 2008.]

Notes

She and her sister Beatrice are the only male-line granddaughters of the Queen to hold the title of Princess and the style Royal Highness. Her younger cousin, The Lady Louise Windsor, has been styled as the daughter of an earl, also by request of her parents, although Lady Louise remains "Her Royal Highness Princess Louise of Wessex" in the absence of letters patent and could, therefore, choose to adopt her royal title once she comes of age, should she so wish. Princess Eugenie's elder cousin, Zara Phillips, as a female-line granddaughter of the Queen, does not hold the title of Princess and the style of Royal Highness. Further, Phillips does not hold a courtesy title because her father, Captain Mark Phillips, declined the Queen's offer of an earldom upon his marriage to the then-Princess Anne (now The Princess Royal).

Though Eugenie's mother has a strained relationship with many senior members of the royal family, Eugenie and her sister Beatrice are very much a part of the royal fold and the Queen keeps in regular contact with them.

She is the first Princess since before the birth of her grandmother to bear the name Victoria. Queen Victoria had requested that her female descendants bear the name Victoria somewhere in their name; however, the last Princess before Eugenie to bear it was her grandmother's aunt, Princess Mary, whose first name was actually Victoria. Neither Queen Elizabeth, the late Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra, Princess Anne, nor Princess Beatrice hold the name Victoria.

References

[3] Tatler, April 2008

External links

* [http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/windsor_17.htm Illustrated biography of Princess Eugenie]
* [http://www.princesseugenie.co.uk/ Fan Site]

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NAME=York, Eugenie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Mountbatten-Windsor, Eugenie Victoria Helena
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Second daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York
DATE OF BIRTH=23 March 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH=London, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=