Aug. 6, 2026
Princess Eugenie Welcomes a Baby Girl as Charles Reportedly Invites Andrew Back to Balmoral
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank welcome their third child in Portugal, giving August and Ernest a new baby sister. Plus: King Charles reportedly offers Andrew a carefully timed Balmoral visit, questions grow over William’s refusal to wear a kilt, and Charles recalls the avalanche that nearly killed him.
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Calorogus Shark Media headlong Welcome through Palace Intrigue. I am
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your host, Mark Francis. Princess Eugenie and Jack brooks Bank
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have welcomed their third child, a baby girl, born in Lisbon.
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The baby arrived on Monday at six twenty pm British
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summer time, weighing six pounds. Nine Ouncers Buckingham Pallace announced
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the birth and the statement, saying their majesties, the King
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and Queen and other members of the royal family were
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delighted to be informed of the news. Princess Eugenie also
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shared the happy news on Instagram. She wrote, Jack and
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I are so excited to announce baby girl brooks Bank.
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We are beyond in love with our girly. The couple
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did not announce their daughter's name. The decision to wait
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before announcing a baby's name is common within the royal family.
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Royal commentator Victoria Arbota previously told Town and Country the
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reasoning is perhaps to fold. On one hand, there's a
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desire to inform the families before a public declaration is made,
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and any new parent appreciates having a little private time
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to get to know their new edition before the onslaught
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of announcements. Kaith and William revealed Prince George's name two
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days after his birth, and followed the same pattern with
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Princess Charlotte. Prince Harry's name was made public in less
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than twenty four hours after he was born, and the
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longest wait of all came in nineteen forty eight, when
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip did not publicly announce the
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name of their first child, the future King Charles, for
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an entire month. The new arrival joins older brothers August,
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who was born in twenty twenty one and Ernest, who
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arrived in twenty three. The baby will not hold the
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title of his or her Royal Highness, since Princess Eugenie
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is not a working royal and her children do not
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automatically receive royal titles. She will, however, become fifteenth in
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line of succession to the British throne. The baby may
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have been born in Lisbon, but that doesn't make her
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any less British. According to barrister Ben Keith, British nationality
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is generally determined by the nationality of a child's parents,
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not by the country where the child is born. Keith
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explained when one parent is a British national by birth,
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in this case a member of the Royal family, the
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child's nationality is British even though she is born in Portugal.
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King Charles is reportedly extending another olive branch to his
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younger brother, Andrew Batton Windsor, with an invitation to baal
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Moral later this summer. According to the Daily Mails e
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from hard Castle, Andrew has been invited to spend time
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at the royal estate in Aberdeen Sheher, where he will
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be able to play golf and enjoy a quieter environment
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away from public attention. The report claims Charles is concerned
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about Andrew's well being following years of intense scrutiny over
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his association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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The column says the King is acutely conscious of the
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poor state of Andrew's mental health and believes to stay
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at Baumorl would allow his brother to remain unseen while
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enjoying the estate's golf course and a stress free change.
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The invitation is also said to extend to Princess Beatrice
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and Princess Eugenie, who traditionally joined members of the royal
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family during the annual summer gathering in Scotland. According to
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the report, however, the invitation comes with one important condition.
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Andrew would not arrive until after the King Charles and
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Queen Camilla had already left bal Moral. New photographs of
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King Charles attending the my Highland Games have received a
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small but persistent royal debate. Will Prince William eventually embrace
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one of Scotland's best known royal traditions. Although William carries
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the Scottish title Duke of Rothsay while in Scotland and
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regularly undertakes engagements there, he has never publicly worn a kilt.
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Former royal butler Grant Harold tells the Scottish Daily Express.
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He said, it's safe to say he doesn't have the
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same love for Scotland that his father, grandmother and great
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grandmother had. It's not to say he doesn't like Scotland,
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he just doesn't have the same passion. He holidays at Sandringham.
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While the King and late Queen always escaped to Scotland,
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it is important for the royals to have strong ties
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with Scotland. Queen Elizabeth said and did everything in her
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power to join the two countries, and this has been
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inherited by King Charles, but Prince William has not shown
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it in the same way, which is worrying. These are
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important historical ties and for William not to show the
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same support of interests is sad. I think they will
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be looking at trying to increase his popularity up there,
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and this is a start, but I think he will
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need to go and stay up there for periods of
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time to really make a difference. We know that William
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is doing things his own way and they won't be
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able to force him. We have already seen this different
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approach to the monarchy, so time will tell on how
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he approaches this relationship. Harold also pointed to one symbolic
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difference between William and earlier generations of royals. William also
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never wears a kilt, and historically royals have always worn kilts.
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The fact that he hasn't done this shows he doesn't
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want to go down the traditional route, which we have
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seen in many aspects of his modern approach to royal
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life and more palacing just a moment. King Charles has
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reflected publicly on one of the closest calls of his life,
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recalling the avalanche struck during a skiing holiday in Switzerland
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nearly four decades ago. The King spoke about the nineteen
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eighty eight tragedy while hosting members of the Ascent Mountain
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Rescue Team at the Castle of Mayan, Caithness. Eleven volunteers
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from the rescue organization were invited to the reception as
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the team marked its fiftieth anniversary. During the event, Charles
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discussed the dangers of mountain rescue and recalled the avalanche
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at Clusters that killed his close friend, Major Hugh Lindsay,
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who had served as an equerry to Queen Elizabeth. On
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March tenth, nineteen eighty eight, the then Prince Charles was
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skiing off Pissed above Clusters when an avalanche swept through
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the group. Major Lindsay was carried hundreds of meters down
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the mountain and later died from his injuries. Another member
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of the party, Patty Talmer Tomkinson, was seriously injured, while
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Charles and several others managed to escape. According to The Times,
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Ascint Mountain Rescue Team leader Ben Dyson said the King's
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memories of the incident remained vivid. The King spoke of
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the neemis he had in that avalanche and the context
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of the dangers mountains contain. He said it was a
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close thing of his. After all these years, it is
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still much in his memory, but it has given him
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an insight to the valuable work we do in the
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dangers we face, Dyson said. The king also showing a
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keen interest in modern rescue techniques, particularly the growing use
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of drones during mountain emergencies. He added, but obviously his
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own experience has helped inform him of the work we
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and other mountain rescue teams carry out. Charles also spent
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time asking the volunteers about their careers outside mountain rescue,
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since the forty member team serves entirely on a voluntary basis.
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Dyson described the King as being in very good form,
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adding that Charles treated the group to locally produced whiskey,
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as well as tea and coffee. One of the more
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unusual stories from King charles childhood has resurfaced, involving a
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medieval church font that was transported more than five hundred
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miles so the future king could have it nearby when
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he was at school. According to the BBC, the twelfth
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century Norman font originally stood inside Saint Michael's Church at
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Upton Cresset in Shropshire, but after Prince Philip visited the
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church in the sixties, he arranged for it to be
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moved to Gordonstown School in Scotland, where Charles had enrolled
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in nineteen sixty two. The church had closed in nineteen
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fifty eight and was in poor condition wheny of its
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historic contents were expected to be placed into storage, but
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Prince Philip reportedly decided the ancient font deserved a more
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prominent home. William Cash, whose family had cared for the
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church for the past fifty years, said the Duke of
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Edinburgh believed it would be better used at Gordonstown than
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sitting in storage. I think Philip thought what a ways
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to have it just sitting in a storage unit. The
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heavy stone font remained in the school's chapel throughout charles
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time there, before eventually returning to Saint Michael's during the seventies.
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Cash said the story is still surprises visitors today. This
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is a strange story that to this day most people
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don't know about, he said, adding that visitors find it
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almost impossible to believe that this font has moved so
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many hundreds of miles for the king's esthetic benefit. It
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always feels like something out of an Arthurian legend, like
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this was a font that was fit for a king.
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