Update, 10/12: Maid of honor Princess Beatrice has arrived to the royal wedding wearing a cobalt blue skirt ensemble by Ralph & Russo. She accompanied her mom, Sarah, Duchess of York, to enter the chapel. YouTube YouTube YouTube Update, 10/10: It's official! Princess Beatrice will serve as her younger sister Princess Eugenie's wedding this Friday. In honor of the announcement today, the royal family shared sweet throwback photos of the sisters on Instagram. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Original story, 8/2: Princess Eugenie's October 12 royal wedding to Jack Brooksbank is quickly approaching, but does she have a maid of honor helping her prep for the big day? Although the role is uncommon for British weddings, will she go the Kate Middleton route and break tradition? Or will she pull a Meghan Markle and not have a maid of honor at all? In a new interview, Princess Eugenie revealed that she will have a maid of honor, and her only sibling and sister, Princess Beatrice, will take on the role, according to People. Getty Images This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. "I’m not stressed at all," the bride-to-be said of wedding planning. "It’s nerve-racking because you want it to be perfect, but then you realize that you’re going to be with the person you love forever and nothing else really matters." Expect to see other royal family members involved in the nuptials too; Princess Charlotte will be a flower girl and Prince George will be a page boy. The tots have already had plenty of wedding experience thanks to their uncle Prince Harry, who got hitched in May, and aunt Pippa Middleton, who got married last year. Getty Images Like Eugenie, Prince Harry was speculated to choose his only sibling as his best man, and the groom ultimately did select the Duke of Cambridge for the role. Markle, on the other hand, didn't have a maid of honor because "she didn’t want to choose one over another," a palace spokesperson said ahead of the ceremony. However, her friends still helped her prepare for the wedding. Her bestie Jessica Mulroney, for example, assisted in choosing the wedding day wardrobe. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>This year has been dominated by one royal wedding—the one of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry—but it is the previous one that is still fresh on the minds of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Seven years ago, the royals eighth and ninth in line for the throne became household names when they arrived at their cousin Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton. And, they haven’t stopped thinking about it since. While the viral moment is somewhat iconic, the princesses didn’t see it that way after reading about the nasty reactions to their elaborate hats, designed by Philip Treacy. “There was a horrible article that had been written about Beatrice, and she got really upset,” Eugenie told British Vogue, via Express. “We were just about to step out, and she had a bit of a wobble and cried. I was looking after her. And then about an hour later, I had a wobble and started crying, and Bea was there for me.” Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie leave Westminster Abbey. David Jones/PA Images via Getty Images Ultimately, though, they’re happy with their public images, which, they say, mirror who they really are. “We want to show people who we are as working, young, royal women, but also not to be afraid of putting ourselves out there,” Beatrice said. “Nowadays it’s so easy to recoil when you see a perfect image on Instagram—but it’s important that it’s real. We’re real.” Being real means figuring it out as they go, which Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie say has been their approach. “It’s hard to navigate situations like these because there is no precedent, there is no protocol,” Beatrice said. “We are the first: We are young women trying to build careers and have personal lives, and we’re also princesses and doing all of this in the public eye.” No doubt the public eye will be even more trained on them come October 12, when Princess Eugenie marries her longtime love, Jack Brooksbank, at the same wedding venue Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wedded, Windsor Castle. But they’re not sweating it yet. “I’m not stressed at all,” Princess Eugenie said. “It’s very nerve-racking because you want it to be perfect, but then you realize that you’re going to be with the person you love forever and nothing else really matters.” For this royal wedding, the attention will be all on their union, rather than her hat.<doc-sep>Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie shocked the world when they arrived to the 2011 royal wedding wearing those hats, but they also received a fair share of backlash over the surprising accessory choice. In fact, the criticism was so harsh at one point that it left them very emotional. "There was a horrible article that had been written about Beatrice and she got really upset," Princess Eugenie said in a recent interview, recalling their infamous fascinators. "We were just about to step out and she had a bit of a wobble and cried," she added, per Cosmopolitan. "I was looking after her. And then about an hour later, I had a wobble and started crying and Bea was there for me." Pascal Le Segretain Getty Images This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. For those who don't recall, the sisters wore one-of-a-kind fascinators by royal-favorite hat designer Philip Treacy to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding seven years ago at Westminster Abbey. Eugenie's was a blue headpiece with a massive purple flower topped with a white feather, which she wore with a Vivienne Westwood ensemble. Beatrice's was beige with an upright oval design and ribbon features that matched her nude Valentino Haute Couture dress. The siblings landed on worst-dressed lists and the Daily Mail called their looks "outlandish," but Beatrice seemed to get the brunt of the backlash. A Facebook page called Princess Beatrice's ridiculous wedding hat was created. (It doesn't seem to be available anymore.) WPA Pool Getty Images This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. This year, however, the siblings went the subtler route when choosing their royal wedding hats. Eugenie went for a retro-inspired Gainsbourg dress and Fiona Graham pillbox hat, and Beatrice wore a beaded Roksanda dress with a Stephen Jones hat so minimal it almost looked like a headband. Beatrice added in the interview that she and Eugenie want to present themselves as working young royals and "real" people who aren't "afraid of putting ourselves out there." It looks like that applies to fashion, too. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice gave a very rare interview to Vogue UK for its September issue, in which they touched on just how deeply the backlash to the hats they wore at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding—particularly Beatrice's by Philip Treacy—affected them. Both cried during a garden party in Buckingham Palace. “There was a horrible article that had been written about Beatrice, and she got really upset," Eugenie said, via Express. “We were just about to step out, and she had a bit of a wobble and cried. I was looking after her. And then about an hour later, I had a wobble and started crying and Bea was there for me.” Mike Marsland Getty Images Additionally, Eugenie said she's "not stressed" about her October wedding, and Beatrice admitted that despite their closeness, they do fight sometimes. “One of the biggest fights we ever had was about a pair of Converse trainers,” Beatrice joked. “We have the same size feet and both of us had identical pairs. One pair got trashed and the other sister may have swapped them.” Alyssa Bailey News and Strategy Editor Alyssa Bailey is the news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>
Most remember Kate Middleton and Prince William's wedding day as a happy and celebratory occasion. But, unfortunately for the Duke of Cambridge's cousins Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, the day wasn't quite as joyful as they had hoped. You might remember the tabloids taking aim at both princesses of York for their bold Philip Treacy fascinators. Some called their hats and outfits "outlandish" and "ludicrous" while others created Facebook pages mocking the head pieces. Despite the fascinators getting so much negative attention at Kate and Will's wedding, Beatrice tried to make the buzz positive by auctioning hers off for charity. Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice came under fire for their fascinators at Kate and Will’s wedding at Westminster Abbey in 2011. Getty Images Still, Beatrice couldn't help but feel hurt over the nasty things being written and said about her. Her sister, Eugenie, revealed to British Vogue in a new interview that the two had a moment where they both broke down in tears during a garden party at Buckingham Palace. There was a horrible article that had been written about Beatrice and she got really upset. We were just about to step out and she had a bit of a wobble and cried. I was looking after her. And then about an hour later, I had a wobble and started crying and Bea was there for me. Thankfully, Beatrice says the sisters are extremely close and have each other to lean on no matter what happens or how they're perceived. “One of the biggest fights we ever had was about a pair of Converse trainers,” Beatrice joked with the magazine. On another positive note, the sisters have Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank to look forward to on Friday, October 12. According to Vogue, Eugenie has been going crazy on Pinterest in prep for the big day. But when asked if she's nervous and/or freaking out about it, the princess says she's actually keeping her cool. "I'm not stressed at all [about the wedding]," she said. "You want it to be perfect but then you realize you're going to be with the person you love forever and nothing else really matters." Eugenie is so right about that.