We rarely hear about the York princesses’ jobs. Princess Eugenie is an associate director for the gallery Hauser & Wirth, and she actually seems to know a lot about art and the gallery seems to be supportive of her lifestyle (she lives part-time in Portugal). Meanwhile, Princess Beatrice has worked for Afiniti since 2017. Her title is Vice-President of Partnerships and Strategy. It’s an American company but Beatrice is based out of London, although we rarely hear about anything having to do with her job. Apparently, her job put her in the position to go in for some kind of tech conference… at Spotify’s London office. Spotify, the same company which ended their contract with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex last year. Of course, in the Daily Mail’s coverage, they were obligated to reference Bill Simmons’ “f–king grifter” comments in the first sentence. The Mail’s Emily Prescott also took a jab at Meghan for making jam. The bitterness is just oozing from this short story:
Harry and Meghan were blasted as ‘f****** grifters’ by Spotify executive Bill Simmons after they made just 12 episodes, despite having an £18 million, multi-year deal with the streaming company.
But ripping up their contract hasn’t put Spotify off linking with Royals – as Harry’s cousin Beatrice appears to be building a working relationship with the company without shouting from the rooftops, perhaps in fear of showing up Montecito’s jam-makers.
I can reveal that last week Beatrice, 35, attended an industry event at Spotify’s London office, where she hosted a discussion about the future of technology. Joining her were former Warner Bros Discovery boss Priya Dogra and Sakshi Chhabra Mittal, founder of science-based meal delivery service Foodhak.
Beatrice, eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, is no stranger to tech. Since 2017, she has been Vice-President of Partnerships and Strategy at US software and data firm Afiniti.
She is also, I can reveal, director of a company called BY-EQ, which she set up in 2022 under the unassuming name Beatrice York.
You might think that Beatrice was suddenly being pursued by Spotify or that they were offering her a $50 million podcasting contract, that’s the way this visit was being written about. Instead, it’s a story about Beatrice attending a meeting and “hosting a discussion” at Spotify’s office in London. That’s it. But anything to drag the Sussexes, I guess. I am curious about Beatrice’s BY-EQ though. What is that?? It’s a shame the British media is so Sussex-obsessed, they fail to cover genuinely interesting stuff involving the left-behind Windsors. Does Beatrice have a shell company? Is Eugenie still working for Hauser & Wirth? Is anyone actually living in Frogmore Cottage these days? And where they f–k is the Princess of Wales? No answers, because the Mail would rather obsess about an American woman sending jam to her friends.
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I am totally convinced that if Harry and Meghan moved to Mars, their detractors would be still talking about them. It must be profitable for them to target the Sussexes so viciously.
Best earners for the gutter press, they must be the most important members of the royal family judging by the number of stories about them.
The criticism of sussexes deflection from Williams lack of work and Kate not being seen
I mean Beatrice posed for pictures at the event so the DM is not really revealing anything. A revelation would have been if she was bringing out a podcast. The biggest and most difficult challenge for the British press is to write a story about the other royals without mentioning Harry and Meghan.
It’s a challenge they’re willing to meet, no matter how tangential the Sussexes may be to the story. Or they could have zip-all to do with the story, but does that matter? No it does not.
If M was “just a jam maker” that would be perfectly lovely. But she’s also a “jam maker” who alongside her husband recently raised $1 million in one day for young people in Africa living with Aids. But that doesn’t fit into the narrative. She is doing everything “wrong” because she’s not supposed to be thriving. Let Harry’s family do their business without mentioning H + M.
The others are not interesting and nothing to root for against them.
And anything interesting about the UK Royals, the Press is blocked from talking about, so now that they are not been FED the Sussexes, they have to make things up.
Hmmm that sounds more like a jealous middle schoolers diary rant than a news worthy story.
LOL! Love the analogy.
I can’t wait for the launch so she can win, she can win it all. Go Meg
And go Beatrice. Whatever’s going on, hope she makes it
The agent that got the Spotify contract for Meghan did a damn good job, because Meghan walked away with her podcast.
I know right, what a brilliant agent Meghan has. I was shocked when we can still listen to her podcasts on all platforms kudos to them Meghan and her agent! I imagined that’s what Meghan asked for in the beginning she is genius.
So no accusations of her using her title to get ahead
Well, she did use her ‘unassuming name’, Beatrice York, when setting up her PLC. 🙄
One thing we learned from the strikes and all the AI hype from corporate America is that executives seem to think all creatives who are anything other than enthusiastic cheerleaders for right wing talking points are grifters.
It took them pretty long to figure out Beatrice carved territory for her own company. Some journalists they are!
Nothing against Bea, but most people outside the UK (and some in the UK) probably said “who?” or “which sister or whose daughter is she?”
Wondering if her company is a way for her to shelter her dad’s money from other potential lawsuits against him!
It’s not her company. She works for Afiniti.
They mentioned her company at the end, BY-EQ. It’s a PLC. My guess is a place to park money.
This thought flitted through my mind too @Chaine. The biggest question that arises out of this is “What is BY-EQ, exactly?”
I think maybe it’s short for ‘Bye Emotional Quotient’…..?
Megan, can you please make a whole batch of bitter almond jam and send it to the Daily Fails offices 😉
Ha. Bitter almond and sour grapes, maybe. Bitter and sour is such an appealing combo, I like that flavour for them.
…with rhubarb and persimmons, to boot.
And a good dash of Angostura Bitters…
Maybe she’ll do a podcast where she tries to rehabilitate her father’s image faster.
😂😂😂😂🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Ummmm, I guess Beatrice gets bigger points than Harry because of the location of the conference she went to as opposed to the location Harry’s Betterup conference was at. Okaaaaaaayyyyy.