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  "textContent": "\n\n\nPrincesses Beatrice and Eugenie are \"bitterly disappointed\" after being \"banned from attending Royal Ascot\" this summer, over their parents' links to Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe pair have been told they will not be joining the royals in their box at the horse racing event scheduled for June.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe sisters have been regulars each summer, being photographed with their royal cousins at the famous Berkshire racecourse.\n\nBut this year, the siblings have been snubbed, with a source telling the Daily Mail: \"I've spoken to my friend who works at Ascot, and they said the girls have been told they can't be there this year.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Beatrice has taken it the hardest. She's been completely blindsided by all of this.\"\n\nA separate source explained \"Ascot is out of the question\" for the princesses this year.\n\n\"The royals have been told they can't be photographed with the girls for the rest of the year,\" they said.\n\nBoth have been \"left drained\", according to friends, amid the ongoing connections between their parents and the late paedophile Epstein.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Princess Beatrice photographed with an alleged Chinese spy on Asia tour\n  * Princess Michael of Kent suffers stroke as royal is left 'bedridden'\n  * Canadian Prime Minister calls for Andrew to be removed from royal line of succession\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nPrince William is said to have advised other royals not to appear in photographs with the pair \"for the rest of the year\".\n\nThe sisters have been rarely seen since their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested.\n\nBeatrice was spotted for the first time with her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, as the pair took a stroll through London.\n\nThe royal was dressed casually and clutching a takeaway coffee as she walked with the property developer and two companions, curator Carrie Scott and her partner Nick Lazarus.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe last previous public sighting of the princess dates back to late January at the World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\nEugenie was pictured in Central London in late February, appearing at ease despite the turmoil surrounding her family following her father's arrest.\n\nThe princess was seen carrying refreshments from Joe & The Juice.\n\nThis sighting followed an earlier appearance, when Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, were captured on camera collecting coffee together in Notting Hill.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAccording to a source who spoke to People about the February 24 outing: \"She was chatting away with someone she knows and seemed very relaxed. It was all very casual.\"\n\nThe source further noted her cheerful disposition, adding: \"She was laughing and joking.\n\n\"She looked happy and at ease, not like someone trying to hide.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie 'bitterly disappointed' after being 'banned from attending Royal Ascot'"
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