Princess Beatrice beams with Holly Branson as the pair celebrate win

Princess Beatrice has been seen beaming alongside Holly Branson while she attempts to get back to business following her father’s falls from grace.

Beatrice, ninth in line to the throne, was shown in an Instagram photo shared by Sir Richard Branson’s daughter Holly after a boost for their charity Big Change.

The organisation has been pushing for education reform and welcomed news that the Labour government is looking to make changes to the national curriculum.

The princess looked in good spirits, smiling in a group photo with Holly, her brother Sam and his wife Isabella. They were joined by fellow founders of the charity Phil Nevin and Sam Richardson.

It comes as Beatrice continues to push ahead with charity efforts, amid the latest setbacks for her father, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

The former Duke of York was stripped of his royal titles last month, in the ongoing fallout from his former friendship with late US billionaire and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Beatrice, 37, the elder daughter of Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, made on Monday her first public charity appearance since that announcement by the King.

She visited the Borne research laboratories at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, where research is carried out into preventing premature births.

Princess Beatrice (third from right) is pictured in an Instagram photo shared online by her Big Change charity co-founder Holly Branson (right)

The hospital is where Beatrice gave birth to her youngest child Athena several weeks prematurely in January, with the newborn weighing 4lb 5oz.

Now another of her initiatives has been publicised, with Ms Branson highlighting newly announced changes to the national curriculum.

The entrepreneur’s daughter shared to her 142,000 followers on Instagram a picture of her and Beatrice alongside other friends involved with the charity – Holly’s brother Sam and his wife Isabella, known as Bellie, as well as Phil Nevin and Sam Richardson.

Beatrice was seen in a blue shirt, tan skirt and white trainers, while linking arms with others in the team photo.

Ms Branson wrote: ‘The new national curriculum reform announced by the government this week sets out a vision for young people to leave school fully equipped for life and work in the modern age.

‘It’s so energising and encouraging to see that many of the proposed changes and things we’ve been advocating for at @bigchangecharity for ten years now.

‘Over the last decade, our team and our wider network of big changers been working together to champion and advocate for education that focuses on everything from oracy and confident communication to real-world life-skills (financial, entrepreneurial, media-literacy), and go beyond academic subjects so all young people can find their passion and have richer experiences.

‘The education system has been stuck in the past, and it’s so refreshing to finally see some meaningful change on the horizon.’

She also told how it was ‘so amazing to catch-up with our other Big Change founders a few weeks ago – @bransonsam, @belliebranson, Phil Nevin, Sam Richardson, and Princess Beatrice’.

Ms Branson added: ‘Incredible that 13 years on, we are all still here, committed to a mission that has not (and will not) change.’

Princess Beatrice seen paying a visit to the Borne research laboratories at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London on Monday 10 November 2025

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Beatrice is a co-founder of the Big Change Charitable Trust, set up to support children with skills outside the traditional national curriculum, as well as being an advisor for artificial intelligence software firm Afiniti.

She has various royal patronages including the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice, the Teenage Cancer Trust and the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity.

And it was this month revealed how Beatrice has taken on another role – becoming deputy patron of the Outward Bound Trust, an organisation encouraging young people to spend time outdoors.

She joins her uncle Prince Edward, who was announced as the royal patron of the charity at a special event at St James’s Palace last Thursday.

Beatrice had already been a trustee of 5he Outward Bound Trust since 2019 – the same year the charity accepted Andrew’s resignation as patron following his disastrous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, having supported the then Duke for decades.

Andrew himself took on the role from his father Prince Philip, who was patron for 65 years – with many believing it was the charity closest to his heart.

Beatrice issued a statement on Monday about her visit to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, saying it was ‘not only insightful’ but had also given her ‘so much hope for pregnant mothers in the UK that this topic is being taken incredibly seriously’.

She added: ‘I am so grateful for the scientists and clinicians who took the time today to show me the advances they are making to reduce the risks to expectant mums and babies.’

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Duke of York, is pictured with his daughters Princess Eugenie (centre) and Princess Beatrice (right) at St Paul’s Cathedral in June 2016

Eugenie (left) and Beatrice (right) were seen together in London’s Mayfair last Thursday

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Buckingham Palace announced last month how her father Andrew would no longer be known as a prince and would leave Royal Lodge in Windsor – instead taking up residence ahead on the family’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

King Charles stripped his brother of titles after weeks of pressure to act over Andrew’s relationship with Epstein, who died in prison in August 2019 aged 66.

Andrew said in September he would no longer use the title Duke of York following revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed sexual abuse allegations by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in her posthumous memoir.

The Mail on Sunday revealed how Andrew tried to involve the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth’s most senior aides in a campaign to smear Ms Giuffre, who had accused him of assaulting her as a teenager.

An email exposed how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded police bodyguard to investigate the ‘lying’ young woman.

The prince is said to have passed on details of her date of birth and social security number, thought to have been given to him by Epstein.

He also claimed Virginia, who took her own life earlier this year, had criminal convictions, a claim which has not been backed up by any evidence or confirmed by police and has been strongly denied by her family.

An earlier email exposé proved that Andrew lied to Buckingham Palace and the British public when he claimed he had cut off all contact with his close friend in December 2010, following Epstein’s release from prison on child-sex charges.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his royal titles in October 2025, in a Buckingham Palace statement saying he would also be moving out of his Royal Lodge home in Windsor

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Twelve weeks later, he emailed the sex offender financier to say they were ‘in this together’ and expressed his wish to ‘play some more soon’.

Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, alleged she was forced to have sex three times with Andrew, which he vehemently denies, including when she was 17 and also during an orgy, after she was trafficked by Epstein.

Andrew paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with her in 2022, despite insisting he had never met her.

While he has lost his royal titles and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson is also no longer HRH, their daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, 35, remain princesses.

Buckingham Palace said in its statement last month that the King’s moves against Andrew were ‘deemed necessary notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him’.

The statement said: ‘His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew.

‘Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.

‘Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.

‘These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

‘Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.’