For a brief day it looked like the ‘retirement’ of Prince Andrew was going to be a fudge with himself plus his pantomime-dame former wife turning up at Buckingham Palace where he evidently still has offices amid talk of him continuing with his entrepreneurial pitch from Buck House, never mind getting continuing support from mama out as a riding companion. Then brick by brick it all started to tumble with his resignation from multiple charities, Universities, English National Ballet and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and finally today his departure from his flagship business project PitchPalace.
It now looks like a much more final guillotine, mainly via public and business pressure, though ousting him from the palace might be an idea. Word is that he will still receive a private income from the Queen though that won’t support the lavish lifestyle he’s been used to, nor the funding of two daughters and extravagant ex-wife; and his international ‘business’ opportunities as a fixer will diminish sharply. All of which raises questions of what next for Beatrice and Eugenie and Sarah?
Sarah, 15 October 1959 9.03 am London, looks fenced in, trapped, frustrated and fearful over the next three years with tr Pluto square her Libra Sun, Sun/Mars midpoint then Mars in 2021/22. She has the devastating Solar Arc Pluto conjunct her Neptune also exactly now with the nerve-stretched tr Uranus in opposition through 2020 as well. Plus a jolting Solar Arc Uranus conjunct her Sun exact in six months’ time, then moving across the midpoint and on to Mars over the next four years which will be a longish phase of insecurity and forced change. Her Progressed Moon is also going through her 8th starting now for two years plus ahead which tends to be stressful, seeking new values and can feel like being in purgatory.
Princess Beatrice, 8 August 1988 8.18pm London, is a Sun Leo square Pluto and thought to be closest to Andrew. She’s getting married next year but it looks very high stress with tr Saturn Pluto conjunct her Mars/Pluto midpoint – setbacks, crises and disasters. She will have a few enthusiastic patches but generally will be feeling the strain with the Saturn Pluto conjunction moving through her 12th.
Eugenie, 23 March 1990 6.58pm London has a 6th house Aries Sun and the triple conjunction Capricorn in her 4th – so she experienced her childhood as very erratic, unpredictable and hard work. She has the downbeat tr Pluto conjunct her 4th house Saturn in 2019/2020 – so family problems loom large; and her 4th house Mars in Aquarius is also being stirred by Solar Arc Uranus conjunct in April/May and then tr Uranus square in June 2020 – which will be nerve-wracking, irritable and could be connected again to family/father. She doesn’t look any more light hearted in 2021/22 either.
All of them have depended on Andrew as the money tree and the entrée to the charity circuit of endless functions, never mind holidays with wealthy friends abroad who appreciated the Royal connection. Once that gets tainted, their lives will shrink considerably. And the Daily Mail has clearly no intention of letting up the pressure, so more will undoubtedly come out about where his Andrew’s money came from and about the sordid Epstein connection.