Prince Andrew wants to convince the Queen to give his daughter’s future husbands earldoms.
The 56-year-old royal – who is one of the Queen’s sons – has reached out to his mother and his older brother Prince Charles to help improve the status of his daughters Princess Beatrice, 28, and Princess Eugenie, 26, as well as their partners, because he doesn’t want his grandchildren to be viewed as lower class "commoners".
Speaking about the reason behind the Duke of York’s plan in Ephraim Hardcastle’s column in the Daily Mail newspaper, a source said: "His daughters’ children will be commoners, defined as one of the ordinary or common people, as opposed to the aristocracy or to royalty."
However, the Royal convention ensures all of the monarch’s children claim the title Her Royal Highness, which is then subsequently inherited by her grandchildren, who are born to her sons.
And if Beatrice or Eugenie marry non-aristocrats or to anyone who is not considered a royal and decide to have a family, their children will have no right to the title, which Andrew doesn’t agree with.
This news comes after a recent discussion over whether Andrew’s daughters – who are seventh and eighth in line to the throne – should be given full-time royal duties, to be funded by tax-payers and to reside in the apartments at Kensington Palace.
Although Andrew is in favour of allowing his brood more prominent roles within the Royal family, Prince Charles – who has sons Prince William and Prince Harry – reportedly disapproves of the request.
And it has been reported the 90-year-old monarch was undecided how to settle the dispute, she passed it on to her private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt, to come up with a solution.
Prince Andrew wants daughter’s future husbands to have status
