Born on March 23^rd 1990 to Royalty, as the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who is the third child and the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Eugenie’s name was derived from Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain who was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England. Eugenie joined the British Royal family as the second daughter of Sarah and Andrew who had already welcomed the birth of their first daughter, Beatrice, in 1988. Eugenie is the sixth royal in line to the British throne.

Eugenie spent her nursery school and pre-preparatory years at Winkfield Montessori in Surrey and at Upton House School in Windsor. Her next step in education came in 1995 when she attended Cowarth Park School in Surrey and then St. George’s School at Windsor Castle. Her final years in secondary school were spent at Marlborough College in Wiltshire.After her parents divorced in 1996 Eugenie and Beatrice remained with their mother but with total access granted to Andrew and the two parents have remained extremely good friends and have shared the raising of their daughters totally after an amicable divorce.