Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding is on Friday. The arrivals begin at 4 am EST, with the wedding officially starting at 6 am EST. It’s rough to do to this to people on a weekday, right? Right. Anyway, we’ll have full coverage and fashion stuff, although let’s be honest: CB and I aren’t going to do wall-to-wall coverage like we did with Harry and Meghan’s wedding. We’ll do coverage that reflects Eugenie’s place in the royal family and in public regard. That being said, I’m excited to see her dress. I heard a rumor that it’s Erdem, but I think other British designers could be in the mix too, maybe Sarah Burton for McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, maybe Christopher Bailey. You never know.
Anyway, ahead of the wedding, the Yorks have released some photos and information. They released a new, casual portrait of Jack and Eugenie (above), as well as some cute photos of Jack and Eugenie as kids, and Eugenie and Beatrice as little kids, when they were itty-bitty bridesmaids. As for the information… well, I think we knew most of this, but it’s good to see it confirmed by the palace days in advance. Here’s the wedding party:
The Best Man: Jack Brooksbank has asked his brother, Thomas Brooksbank, to be his Best Man at his Wedding to Princess Eugenie.
Maid of Honour: Princess Eugenie has asked her sister, Princess Beatrice, to be her Maid of Honour.
Bridesmaids:
Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (aged 3)
Miss Savannah Philips (aged 7 – daughter of Mrs Autumn Phillips and Mr Peter Phillips)
Miss Isla Philips (aged 6 – daughter of Mrs Autumn Phillips and Mr Peter Phillips)
Miss Mia Tindall (aged 4 – daughter of Mrs Zara Tindall and Mr Mike Tindall)
Miss Maud Windsor (aged 5 – goddaughter of Princess Eugenie, daughter of Lady Frederick Windsor and Lord Frederick Windsor)
Miss Theodora Williams (aged 6 – daughter of Ms Ayda Field and Mr Robbie Williams)Page Boys
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge (aged 5)
Mr Louis de Givenchy (aged 6 – son of Mrs Zoe De Givenchy and Mr Olivier De Givenchy)Special Attendants
The Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor (aged 14)
Viscount Severn (aged 10)
What’s the difference between a “special attendant” and a child-bridesmaid/page-boy? Is the difference merely a reflection of the ages of Lady Louise and Viscount Severn? Probably – they were too old to be considered a page boy and bridesmaid, but Eugenie still wanted them in her wedding party, which is nice. They’re the children of the Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, by the way. Sophie is particularly popular within the royal family, so I would imagine that Eugenie has a good relationship with her aunt, and that’s one of the reasons why Lady Louise and James were included.
As for George and Charlotte’s presence in the wedding party… I actually feel a little bit sorry for George, because it feels like he’s been on Page Boy Duty constantly. He has to go places and actually behave! He can’t run around and roll in dirty patches and sneak a frog into church. It’s not fun.
Princess Eugenie has also shared this previously unreleased picture of her with her sister Princess Beatrice. As well as a picture of them as bridesmaids at the wedding of their former nanny. pic.twitter.com/vOaCRSq6ho
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 10, 2018
Ahead of their special day, Princess Eugenie, Mr. Jack Brooksbank & their families have today shared a selection of photographs – including these images of The Couple as children: https://t.co/LAK9JCiufn #RoyalWedding pic.twitter.com/exYIHCefzj
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 9, 2018
Photos courtesy of the Royal Family, Avalon Red, Backgrid and WENN.
This is exhausting.
You know you don’t have to click on the article, right?
It’s not like there is a running news ticker on the BBC or front page of national newspapers – pretty easy to avoid if you indeed find it ‘exhausting’.
Is it wrong that I hope that Simon McCoy is reading the news on Friday afternoon?
Having chosen to read it, she then found it exhausting, okay?
Yes, it is exhausting, starting with their self-aggrandizing, grasping parents Andrew & Fergie.
Mostly because of their parents.
But they are not their parents. Cut those girls some slack.
They are not their parents, and despite the vitriol and derision they faced publicly as teenagers, they have both turned out as pretty decent, well spoken human beings, that work within their constraints, went to school and work with charities.No senseless drinking or sleeping around stories with them, unlike William and Harry. Why are we judging them so harshly??
They’re not necessarily working within their constraints. We don’t know for certain that it is Andrew and Sarah who are the ones insisting on this ridiculous carriage ride, at vast taxpayer expense. Eugenie could have turned it down.
When you have parents like Eugenie’s, sometimes you just roll with the punches. It is easier to step back, let them have what they want, and keep the peace. At the end of the day, she ends up married to the person she wants.
I totally agree! I’ll be so glad when she’s finally married and we never hear about this again.
I mean, Congratulations!
Yay! I love royal weddings.
George and Charlotte are professional page boys and bridesmaids at this point!
I like that Eugenie included all of her little cousins.
I can’t wait for Friday!
I know I won’t watch it but i wanna see the pictures. I hope it’s Westwood dress and i do wanna see little Charlotte wave.
Jack as a kid looks a bit like young Harry.
Hope it’s a lovely wedding, York girls get too much crap.
I love royal weddings, too! I don’t know why this one makes people so grumpy. (Okay, I’ll give it to any Brits who don’t want to cover the various costs) But everyone else — just sit back and enjoy the spectacle!
@millenial that’s like saying that you understand people who hate criminals because someone close to them has been hurt but otherwise, what’s the big deal? People pay for these moochers entertainment while the money could have been spent on so many other things.
Are you really comparing enjoying royal weddings to supporting criminals? Um, ok.
I am looking forward to the fashion and the hats. I wish we wore hats to weddings in the U.S.
And here’s me thinking it was going to be a small, intimate affair.
good one!
It feels like a requirement to have George and Charlotte in royal wedding parties because the press automatically slots them in, and then would go nuts about it being a snub if they weren’t. I’m curious about this wedding, mostly because I want to see how over the top Fergie & Andrew went.
Agreed. However…also a great way to ensure lots of attention (which is what it sounds like Fergie and Andrew are seeking mostly). Part of my interest in this wedding is to see Meghan and Kate and the kids. Sad but true, I’m not that interested in York girls.
I’ve always had a soft corner for the two girls, because it’s pretty typical of the web to bully and make fun of the girls and not the boys. Glad to see they turned out ok and more interested in them than their cousins and their wives.
The racoon eye make up needs to be toned down, those are some scary eye balls.
What a bad bad and unprofessionel picture released by the Palace… Couldn’t they afford a real photographer???
My surprise was little Theodora Williams as bridesmaid. I didn’t know that Robbie and Eugenie/Jack are friends.
It’s awful! The lighting is terrible.
My reaction to a t! What in the WORLD are they thinking releasing that photo?! Amateur hour.
Both the Royal Family twitter and Duke of York twitters have been releasing several photos a day, making me wonder if Fergie has got control of the accounts. I mean did we need to get the photo of them at a fancy NYE party at Verbier ?
It is not a “portrait,” it is a casual snapshot by someone with no photography training or even common sense, for that matter. Brooklyn Beckham, perhaps.
Lmao!
Cute pics of the sisters and the future M/M Brooksbank. I can’t wait to see Eugenie’s dress and tiara.
That is a sweet picture of them with the floral hoops. They were bridesmaids again a couple years later. Horrible yellow outfits with matching fabric cowboy-ish hats and yellow ruffles on the bobbysocks. The outfits some brides pick for the little kids!
Westwood, please, Westwood not Erdem. And no flouncy outfit for Lady Louise. Lady Sarah Chatto may still have nightmares from her own ruffled outfit at Charles and Diana’s wedding. Or the themed one she wore as Anne’s attendant.
This has me curious. If the evening reception is a tiara event, which tiara would Sarah wear? That’s the only reason I’d think the Strathmore Rose might be worn by the bride, provided it has been repaired.
nota, I know this has been asked before, but I can’t remember the answer. What will Eugenie’s title be after marriage? Thanks for your patience:)
The Strathmore Rose would look perfect on her considering she’s the spitting image of TQM.
Will the evening reception be a tiara event? (White tie = tiara, right?) that would be interesting because the other royal evening receptions haven’t involved tiaras, have they? (other receptions = will and kates and harry and Meghan’s lol)
@Lady D, her title will be Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank.
My post disappeared. I don’t know if this one *will* be a tiara event, but if so, there’s a possible tiara conflict on the horizon.
iirc she keeps her title, HRH Princess Eugenie, and appends Mrs. Jack Brooksbank on the end. Like HRH Princess Alexandra did.
Assuming Sarah Ferguson still has it, why wouldn’t Eugenie wear her mother’s tiara? Rather pretty, I think.
The York Diamond Tiara: http://orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2016/07/tiara-thursday-york-diamond-tiara.html
Windyriver, thank you for that link. Very interesting to see; I’d take it!! It made me a little sad to think the Queen and Phillip bought that beautiful tiara for Fergie as a wedding gift, as well as a set with earrings, necklace, and bracelet, so there was hope and goodwill once. I mean, Fergie had so much opportunity and privilege; I guess I only remembered her after her sex scandal, and then her “selling royal connections” fall from whatever grace was left.
Yes, Sarah’s wedding tiara is beautiful. One of the prettiest in the British collection. If the evening event is not a tiara one, I expect Eugenie to wear that York tiara.
Nota, I have a feeling it’s going to be Erdem.
Sigh. Why Eugenie, why?
Special Attendant is probably like Junior Bridesmaid in the States. I got to be a Junior Bridesmaid when I was 12 for my cousin’s wedding. Too old for flower girl and too young for bridesmaid. I wore the same dress as the bridesmaids which were lavender satin! I felt very fancy! Lady Louise will love it, I’m sure.
Savannah was the sassy one who put her hand over George’s mouth to shut him up (and rolled her eyes while doing so) at the Trooping at the Colour. Can’t wait to see what she gets up to here!
Also it will be cute to see Mia Tindall.
No one from fergie’s side of the family?
Mia is a handful so I will be watching for her.
I will also keep my eye out for Savannah and Mia. But I bet that Savannah’s mother has given her daughter a firm warning after the backlash the girl got for a) keeping George’s mouth shut with her hands, on Buck House balcony of all places and b) aggressively shoving George down a hill when his mother was of eye shot.
Those girls were adorable children and Jack was too.
I like Eugenie, I think she is going to make a beautiful bride. Looking forward to all the fashion shots, but I will not be rising at the crack of dawn to watch.
That’s the photo of Beatrice that shows her dress lining all caught up in her undies or something. Bet she wants that off the interwebs!
I’m kind of hoping it all goes nicely and there’s no mess-ups, except for Kate wearing white.
It’s a little known royal protocol that Kate has to wear clothing so light it looks white to royal weddings.
Known only to her biggest fans no doubt.
OMG Eugenie is marrying Charles. Jack as a child looks very much like him!
I find it so nice that she decided to include all of her cousins’ children in her wedding party, and her youngest cousins, too.
My money is on Westwood. She’s worn her designs multiple times and the silhouette is perfect on her.
I was coming here to say just that! I did a double take when I saw that pic of young Jack. At least he doesn’t have the same ears as Charles, though.
Yea, I’m looking forward to seeing the little bridesmaids and pageboys -who wouldn’t? The media here in the UK are having a real go at Airmiles Andy and Footlovin Fergie’s expense – they are seen as the ones who are insisting that this wedding is a right Royal hoo-ha because they feel their status demands it, complete with carriage ride and rent-a-crowd et al. (Apparently the weather is going to be stormy on Friday so Andy will be livid that its something he cant control). And there’s apparently a quote from Fergie about how she’s looking forward to “knocking back” the tequila provided for the wedding by her new son-in-law – as classy as ever I see. LOL.
Jack as a boy looks so much like little Harry!
And Charles!
I think it’s cute that its a full family affair. All of the mini-Windsors get to be involved and that’s nice. Despite all of the drama, they’re still a large family that celebrate all of the major events together.
My family is large too, my parents each have 4 siblings and I have tons cousins on each side, all of my cousins, their spouses and kids were invited and showed up. My husband, we did the same, no cousins came.
I think the pictures being released of them as little kids are really cute. And I like seeing the less formal pictures of Eugenie and Jack.
All these tidbits being released about the wedding over the past week or so are certainly working because I am way more interested in it now than I was a month ago lol. I get up at 530 for work, but I telework, so I’ll prob put it on in the background.
Me too. I especially love the one of them as little girls. Cute and sweet.
I’ve always wondered: is it pronounced EU-gee-nee or Eu-GEE-nee?
Emphasis on the first syllable.
Yoo-junnee
It’s junnie not genie?
Ha: I never wondered, but evidently I was wrong!! 🙂
There are a couple of interviews with her on YouTube where you can hear her say it herself. Or one called “The Queen with grandchildren at Balmoral” from reelsarency.
You can hear the Queen and William addressing her. Cute because it involves HM trying to wrangle toddler Eugenie while Beatrice is on a pony. If someone else can get links to go through, please post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb9MIJIjW3k
Fashion predictions from our faves:
Meghan will bend to the negative feedback and repeat something, maybe what she wore to Louis christening.
Kate will wear a repeat blue coat dress of some sort w a fascinator
I don’t know about Meghan, but Kate will wear whatever color her children are wearing or something close to it so that they present a family unit in photos.
I just want to see what everyone is wearing, kinda like when i watch the Oscars.
Did anyone else think it was odd Mia Tindall (Zara’s daughter) wasn’t In Harry’s wedding?
I didn’t, because Zara was heavily pregnant at the time, and she looked like the last thing she wanted to be doing was wrangling her daughter on the steps of St George’s Chapel.
Mike could’ve done the wrangling. Since they did a close to even split for the wedding party maybe Harry didn’t want to choose between cousins and just went for his niece, nephew, and godchildren.
I like what I’ve seen of Mia, so I’m happy to see her in this one. It will be sweet to see all the kids from the family as participants.
That would have been AMAZING. Kate, Jessica Mulroney, Alice van Cutsem, Zoe Warren and Mike Tindall wrangling small children. Sadly, we are unlikely to see that kind of gender equality in the royals any time soon.
Not really. She’s a second cousin of Harry whereas George and Charlotte are nephew and niece. Eugenie can include them because there don’t seem to be children included on Jack’s side and she doesn’t have nieces and nephews. Meghan had lots of children of friends she wanted included rather than bridesmaids.
Plus Eugenie’s wedding is a grander affair.
Agreed. Harry and Meghan only included their godchildren, niece and nephew and best friend’s kids. I think if they had included Mia they would have felt like they had to include all of his cousin’s children which probably would have been overwhelming. Eugenie had to include them all if she wanted George and Charlotte.
As someone pointed out above, no attendants from the Ferguson family? Do Beatrice and Eugenie have any relationship with those folks at all?
I haven’t followed Sarah’s siblings. Do any of them have grandchildren? Otherwise there isn’t anyone of appropriate age. And really, why have the children of cousins who live in Australia, South Africa, instead of the kids of cousins you see year-round in the UK.
No. Never thought about it. They had their godchildren, Harry’s niece and nephew, and the Mulroney children, who spent time with them when they were dating.
Couldn’t help but notice the plastic bottle in the bridegroom’s left hand in that first photo. This from a couple who made a big deal about having a plastic-free wedding.
Something nice: I hope they have a lovely day (& day after!)
Double comment.
It that last photo the lining of Beatrice’s dress is riding up and if it went any higher we’d be looking at full frontal.
While I’m sure the picture of them in front of the lake and fall foliage would have been nice (they look happy) the lighting is too dark and you can barely see their faces! I know nothing of photography and even I know that.
Also that last picture of Beatrice and Eugenie, is Beatrice’s slip caught high on her thigh exposing most of her leg? I would be so mortified hahaha, this kind of thing has happened to me once or twice.
That very very fake grin in the last picture scares me.