Princess Eugenie Says She Shares Parenting Tips with Pregnant Sister Beatrice ‘All the Time’

Princess Eugenie and her sister Princess Beatrice — who Buckingham Palace announced was pregnant with her second baby last week — are each other’s go-to when it comes to sharing parenting advice. 

Revealing that the siblings swap parenting tips “all the time,” Princess Eugenie, 34, told Hello! Magazine on Tuesday, Oct. 8, “I ring her a lot about meltdowns and what we do and this and that.”

This included her Oct.1 post about Beatrice’s happy news where she wrote “So looking forward to more on this journey of motherhood together. And adding another little one to the gang.”

“When I was Instagramming that photo, I rang her, and I was like, ‘What do you want me to say?’ ” Eugenie told Hello! “She said, ‘Can’t wait to talk about the trials and tribulations of motherhood.’ ”

“I posted about our mothering journey, because it really is like you become part of a club — a mothering club. And when your children are the same age and they’re going through the same things, it’s just the luckiest thing in the world … And Bea’s my big sister, I talk to her about everything,” Eugenie continued.

The photo in question was a family picture shared by Eugenie of herself and Beatrice, 36, on a beach with Eugenie’s husband Jack Brooksbank and Beatrice’s husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, along with two of the sister’s children. 

“I couldn’t find a single group shot of us 🤦🏻‍♀️, so this one from Christmas 2022 will have to do. Xxxx,” she added to the caption.

The Instagram post also featured a sister picture of the duo. 

While Eugenie shares sons August, 3, and Ernest, 1, with Brooksbank, 38, Beatrice is mom to daughter Sienna, 3, and stepmother to Edo’s son Christopher Woolf, 8, from a previous relationship. 

Although she is thrilled about her sister’s new pregnancy, her pre-school sons are not quite so aware that they will soon have a new cousin. 

“I think maybe Augie will see the tummy growing and realize but no, they don’t get it. Just yet,” she told Hello!

Beatrice and Eugenie’s mother, Sarah Ferguson, is also “so happy” about the news, the princess shared with the outlet.

“Mum’s funny, because she loves her grandchildren so much but you can just see this pride for her two daughters,” Eugenie told Hello! “She’s like, ‘My babies!’ When you become a granny you have the pride for the baby and your baby, you know? She’s got a double whammy there.”

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Buckingham Palace shared news of Beatrice’s pregnancy on Oct. 1. 

“Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are very pleased to announce that they are expecting their second child together early in the new year; a sibling for Wolfie and Sienna,” the royal family said in the statement. “His Majesty The King has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.”

On Oct. 3, Beatrice, 36, made her first public appearance since the news was announced when she stepped out in an all-black outfit at the Chiltern Firehouse in London for the venue’s 10th anniversary bash.

To keep with the theme of the costume party, King Charles’ niece carried a white Venetian-style masquerade mask and tied an oversized bow over her growing baby bump.