Princess Eugenie Gives a Revealing Interview About Being a Working Mom

Yahoo

19-05-2025

Like all members of the royal family, Princess Eugenie is careful when it comes to sharing information about her personal life. However, the royal has decided to speak about her reflections on her childhood surgery and her life as a working mom in rare interview to highlight the work of spinal injury charity Horatio's Garden.
Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph this weekend, Eugenie described her experience of the surgery she had in 2002 at age 12 for scoliosis, which is curvature of the spine. 'I couldn't get out of bed or do anything for myself,' she told the newspaper. She added, 'I felt very embarrassed about the whole thing. I don't know why or where it came from. I remember being woken up really early before my surgery – I pulled my blanket over my head. I said: 'I don't want to see anyone and I don't want them to see me.''
Sharing how her mother Sarah Ferguson helped her reframe her thinking around the surgery, Eugenie said, 'She was amazing. She'd ask me if she could show it to people, then she'd turn me around and say, 'my daughter is superhuman, you've got to check out her scar.' All of sudden it was a badge of honour – a cool thing I had.' At her wedding to Jack Brooksbank in 2018, the Princess deliberately chose a dress that showed the scar on her back.
Eugenie, 35, also spoke to the newspaper about being a working mom. She has been employed by the contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth since 2015 and is now an Associate Director. Her sons August and Ernest were born in 2021 and 2023. 'I think I've got a good balance,' she told the newspaper, describing her 'amazing husband.' She spoke about giving August seeds and gardening tools for his fourth birthday, growing cress in her kitchen, and doing art with her children on the weekends.
Despite the fact that Eugenie is not a working royal, she is the patron of selected charities in a private capacity. She first learned about Horatio's Garden in 2016 and became their patron in 2019. The charity creates gardens in NHS spinal injury centers across the UK. 'As a former spinal patient myself, I understand how the chance to get outside is so beneficial not only for recovery, but for staying positive at a life-changing, and often traumatic, time,' Eugenie said.
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