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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I think everyone would be surprised if the cost of providing security were revealed.
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'SCOTLAND YARD officers have expressed disquiet about the huge cost to the taxpayer of protecting Princess Eugenie and other “party-loving” minor royals.
The cost of providing armed, round-the-clock protection to guard the 19-year-old princess as she leads a busy social life in her first year at Newcastle University is conservatively estimated at more than £250,000 a year.
The decision to continue to provide both royals with 24-hour guards is said to stem from a secret deal agreed between their father, Andrew, and a senior Scotland Yard officer when his former wife Sarah, the Duchess of York, was pregnant with Beatrice in 1988.
During a private meeting, the prince is said to have forcefully requested that Scotland Yard provide lifelong armed protection to his children'
Scotland Yard alarm at cost of guards for Eugenie - Times Online