Princess Beatrice does some rare royal work ahead of her move to Manhattan

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Princess Beatrice did a rare “royal work” public event yesterday. She officially opened a new classroom at the Maple Hayes dyslexia school in Lichfield. Dyslexia is a cause close to Beatrice’s heart – she is dyslexic, and she’s been an advocate/patron with a dyslexia charity for a while. I always wonder about the timing of some of these events – like, did Beatrice want to do this opening specially on this day because she thought it would be unlikely that Duchess Kate would steal her thunder? On this particular instance, I doubt it. There’s no way Beatrice would have known that the world would be still waitying for Kate to give birth.

Unfortunately for Beatrice, this rare public event comes after months of criticism for her lay-about and vacation-happy existence. A few weeks ago, The Daily Mail went through their recent archives and figured out that Beatrice had gone on no fewer than 11 vacations in six months’ time, all while being unemployed. Team York freaked out at all of those reports too – Team York claims that Beatrice is being thrown under the bus for some kind of nefarious purpose. Of course, that hasn’t stopped her from going on a few more vacations. The appearance on Monday came after she returned to England after a jaunt to Florence, Italy.

As for the criticism and the decidedly anti-York bent of the UK press these days, Beatrice really is going to pull the trigger on moving out of the country. People Magazine’s sources claimed last week that Beatrice is “close to confirming” a job at a Manhattan private equity firm. Which will mean that Beatrice and Eugenie both will be New Yorkers for a while – Eugenie still works for the auction house Paddle8 and by all accounts, she enjoys New York a lot. Beatrice’s boyfriend is in NYC now too – Dave Clark left Virgin and now he’s working for Uber. So… the Yorks are mostly out of England. Now if only the Cambridges would step up, right?

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