Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie opened up about their mother Sarah Ferguson earlier this year but the relationship is said to have been impacted in light of the latest scandal

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Princess Beatrice and Sarah Ferguson at Wimbledon earlier this year (Image: Simon M Bruty, Getty Images)

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie didn’t mince their words when discussing their mother, Sarah Ferguson, just months before a royal expert suggested the relationship had broken down.

Despite their father Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being stripped of all his Royal titles this week, Sarah’s daughters will retain their Princess titles. After her email to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was leaked, Sarah also found herself ousted as patron by several charities.

However, prior to any reported tension with their mother, Beatrice and Eugenie appeared on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast where they heaped praise on Sarah. During the show that aired in May, Beatrice was asked about Sarah, 66, both as a woman and as a mother.

Beatrice, 37, who has two daughters herself, responded: “Do you know, my favourite thing about my mum is the more I, this is going to sound very funny, but the more I get to know her in her life, the more incredible this woman is becoming.

“As a mum, she is completely effervescent in her ability to bring joy. And as a mum she has this overwhelming sense of just turning up no matter what is happening or where she is going or what she is doing. She just turns up.”

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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie (Image: PA)

Beatrice went on to say: “It is such a beautiful thing. Now reflecting and preparing for this podcast, and reflecting on what she has been through, especially in the last year with some health struggles, at 64 she is sort of reaching her greatness in all levels.

“And I feel so grateful that we are actually able to share our mum with so many people because she is such a force to reckon with that it is even more exciting now than it has been for us growing up.”

Eugenie, 35, who has two sons, was posed the same question and also praised her mother.

She said: “Yeah, I would say as a woman I think she is spontaneous, I like to say mad as a box of frogs, always the joy bubble in the room.

“And then as a mum, it is the same, but also as Beatrice said, that strength… l don’t know about you guys but as you are now the mum of your family, when we are with our mum, it is like we can be little again, and we can be those little people that need their support from their mum and that just immediately comes to mind when I think about mum, that strength and that person you can always bounce off when you need to.”

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Sarah and Andrew remained close after their divorce in 1996 (Image: Getty)

Sarah contacted disgraced financier Epstein just weeks after pledging never to communicate with him again. In an apology to him, she wrote: “I did not use the P word about you.”

Sarah subsequently lost her Duchess title after Andrew relinquished his Duke of York title before King Charles initiated a “formal process to remove” Andrew’s titles, honours and his HRH designation.

Regarding how this has affected the way Beatrice and Eugenie view their mother, Rebecca English, the Daily Mail’s Royal Editor, claimed their relationship had collapsed. Discussing what a family friend had disclosed to her, she wrote: “I would actually go so far as to say that they are even more disappointed in their mother than their father now.”

The source went on to say: “They also love their mother dearly, of course they do. She’s a wonderful grandmother, too, and they are deeply concerned about how this is all affecting her mentally as much as their father. But I think it’s fair to say the scales have also somewhat fallen from their eyes.”