Top magazine chief orders staff 'to go easy' on Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie

A top magazine chief has warned his staff to give favourable coverage to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Mark Guiducci, global editorial director of Vanity Fair, reportedly took issue with a mention of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's daughters, in a story about his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

The New York Post reports that news site Semafor said Guiducci "wanted to know if it was relevant to include the women in a piece about their father". The Vanity Fair piece about Andrew, which appeared in the September edition of the magazine, "only mentioned the princesses in passing," following Guiducci's intervention.

A Vanity Fair spokesperson told the NY Post: "The references to Beatrice and Eugenie in the draft are identical to what ran and still runs on VF.com. Nothing was changed."

Giuducci was promoted from his previous position as chief creative officer at another Condé Nast property, Vogue.

Under Guiducci, Vanity Fair has taken a "more deferential" tone toward celebrities, particularly given the fact that the publication's business model relies on access to A-list stars for content in this age of media fragmentation, according to Semafor.

Andrew, the former prince, will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and is losing his final honorary military title. He's also recently been removed from the UK monarchy's official website.

The moves come in the wake of a recently published memoir from the late Virginia Giuffre, who detailed allegations of abuse by Mountbatten Windsor - allegations in which the former prince has always denied.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson's daughters have no doubt faced a challenging few weeks as a result of scandals surrounding their parents and their previous association with the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

These scandals have resulted in Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah, being largely disowned by the Royal Family, who have formally stripped Andrew's honours and titles and evicted the divorced couple from their Royal Lodge home. While this may be the case for Andrew and Sarah, Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, has been able to keep their princess title and is not believed to lose it anytime soon.

Beatrice and Eugenie will keep their honours in line with King George V's Letters Patent of 1917, as they are daughters of the son of a sovereign.