Princess Beatrice’s role as a trustee at a youth charity where her father Prince Andrew used to be involved has come to an end.
Outward Bound Trust said that the princess will soon move to a new role at the charity, having been a trustee there since 2019.
She became trustee at the charity, which helps young people to grow through real adventure, after Andrew was forced to step down following his Newsnight interview about his past friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew’s late father, Prince Philip, was also a patron of the charity for more than 65 years.
Princess Beatrice’s new role with the charity is not yet fully known but is expected to be announced in due course.
A spokesperson for Outward Bound Trust said: “The HRH Princess Beatrice has reached the end of her term as a trustee of the Outward Bound Trust.
“Her contribution has been greatly valued, and as such, further details of HRH’s new role with our charity will be announced in due course.”
Parents’ departures from charities
Prince Andrew publicly stepped down from the charity in 2019 alongside other charities including English National Ballet and Action on Hearing Loss.
Action on Hearing loss management met with Andrew at the time following his announcement that he would be stepping back from public duties, and said he would be leaving his role as patron “with immediate effect”.
The charity had agreed it would be “appropriate” for him to step down, but said that the royal family had offered “considerable support over many years”.
Princess Beatrice’s departure came after several charities last week cut ties with her mother, Sarah Ferguson, after it emerged that she had described Epstein as a “supreme friend” in a message to him in 2011.
Meanwhile, a study published by Giving Evidence earlier this year concluded that Prince Andrew’s patronage of several charities, as well as other royals’ patronages of difference organisations, had no discernible benefit to their incomes.
