Princess Beatrice is considering a career in the City after landing a plum work-experience role at an asset management firm.

The 23-year-old is fifth in line to the Throne but has been quietly discouraged from a life of Royal duty as the Queen streamlines the number of working Royals on the payroll.

Beatrice, left, is hard at work ‘within the finance sector’, according to a source close to her. ‘It’s very different from what everyone thought she’d end up doing,’ they said.

Another source said: ‘It’s likely she’s on “rotation” – two weeks on different desks.’

Beatrice graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, last year in History and History of Ideas and was said to have an interest in fashion and the fine arts.

So happy for her, I know what it feels like to be in school or be done with school and trying to get a job. So hard these days. 

(Source: Daily Mail)

There are currently 16 full-time working members of the Royal family but the Prince of Wales is said to favour cutting that number to eight or nine when he becomes king, leaving no room for the likes of Beatrice and Eugenie, or their younger cousins Viscount Severn and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, when they come of age.

So, to misquote Oscar Hammerstein, how do you solve a problem like Beatrice?

“Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will of course get jobs,” said one courtier, “but they will also be required to carry out royal duties by attending events such as Trooping the Colour and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.” Indeed, Beatrice, 23, will join the Queen at the Maundy Thursday service at York Minster next week.

But, despite her Royal title (or perhaps because of it), Beatrice has failed to find a suitable job since she graduated from university with a 2:1 in history last year.

She has also found the door to any part-time role as a working royal firmly shut in her face; she was said to have been keen to join her father, the Duke of York, on his tour of India later this year, when he will be the Queen’s representative celebrating her Diamond Jubilee, but was turned down.

The Duke has openly lobbied for his daughters to be given a public role, saying: “I could make use of them because they would take some of the burden off me.”

Officially, Buckingham Palace denies that the Duke has been irked by the decision to leave his daughters off the roster of working members of the Royal family, but he could be forgiven if he was a little jealous of the phenomenal popularity of his older brother’s family.

The Duchess of Cambridge, who has spread her wings over the past six weeks with a series of solo engagements to promote her charities, is never off the covers of magazines around the world.

Prince Harry, who already has a legion of admirers across the social spectrum (sales of the Sun always spike when he is on the front page) is suddenly seen as the Royal family’s go-to guy for tricky diplomatic missions after he bear-hugged his way into the affections of the staunchly republican prime minister of Jamaica.

Both brothers, of course, also have full-time military careers, making them even more popular with the public, while Beatrice attracts constant criticism over the cost of her taxpayer-funded royalty protection officers.

Her 22-year-old sister, currently a student at Newcastle University, shares the same fate.

But, as has been shown by their mother, the Duchess of York, and their aunt, the Countess of Wessex, finding a job suitable for someone with HRH in front of their name can be a princess-sized mantrap.

The Countess of Wessex had to give up the chairmanship of a PR firm after she was caught by the News of the World’s “fake sheikh” making indiscreet remarks about politicians and members of the Royal family, while her business partner was accused of exploiting the Countess’s status.

The Duchess of York fell for a sting set up by the same reporter when she was filmed offering access to her ex-husband in return for £500,000.

She and the Duke of York may now be regretting their failure to follow the example of the Princess Royal, who decided not to burden her children with titles.

Although Peter Phillips, 34, resigned earlier this month from his job as head of global sponsorship at RBS, he should have no trouble finding another post, having built up an impressive CV without attracting the sort of criticism meted out to his aunts. His sister, Zara, has built a career as an equestrian with little controversy. Significantly, neither has police protection.

Ironically, the haphazard evolution of the Civil List (which is something of a misnomer, as there is no “list” of those who are kept by the state) means that far less senior members of the Royal family than Beatrice and Eugenie have working roles.

They include the Queen’s cousins, the Duke of Kent (28th in line to the throne), Princess Alexandra (39th in line) and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, all of whom could walk down most high streets without fear of being recognised.

While all of them work hard for charities and good causes, the number of working members of the Royal family could be cut back dramatically without the average member of the public noticing any difference.

During the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010, I was covering the Prince of Wales’s visit to a training gym, where he was surrounded by a scrum of athletes, and noticed out of the corner of my eye a man in a Panama hat talking to an official in a quiet corner, totally ignored by everyone else.

The man in the hat was the Earl of Wessex, but it would have been difficult to work out which of the two men was uttering the traditional “And what do you do?” platitude.

While Prince Harry was making his triumphant tour of the Caribbean, the Earl and Countess of Wessex were also in the region, undertaking a 16-day Jubilee tour of the West Indies, though you probably won’t have known it; their visit did not merit a single article in any British newspaper (compared with 464 articles about Prince Harry’s visit).

Assuming the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have children, their offspring will become the next generation of royal stars, meaning the second-tier members of The Firm will be elbowed even further out of the picture.

Next month will herald another important milestone in the evolution of the modern Royal family, as a new funding arrangement kicks in at the start of the financial year.

The current system of grants and Civil List funding will be replaced by an all-in-one payment called the Sovereign Support Grant, paid for entirely by the Crown Estate.

From 2013, the Crown will receive a fixed percentage of the Crown Estate’s profits, in the biggest change to royal funding for 250 years, and for the next year the Queen will receive an interim payment of £30 million, a cut of around £6 million.

Although the new system will allow the Queen more flexibility in how the money is spent (rather than the current system of ring-fencing payments for travel and the upkeep of palaces) she will not be dipping into it to put anyone new on the royal payroll.

With that in mind, Princess Beatrice has been carrying out a series of work placements in recent weeks, hoping for a career in fashion or fine arts.

Some potential employers, however, are said to have found the presence of her burly protection officers rather a turn-off.

Her younger sister, meanwhile, gives the impression that she would shed her royal title in a trice if she could.

“One of my best friends jokingly says: ‘Hi, Princess,’ ” she said in a rare interview, “and I say: ‘Shut up.’ It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.”

Being a princess, it seems, just ain’t what it used to be.

A MUST READ IF YOU FOLLOW THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY. I think Beatrice should move to another country for a career opportunity, she will become more popular there and will have an abundance of work opportunities for her. And once she has gotten that work experience maybe she can think about moving back home. The other option is marrying her uber rich boyfriend and just resorting to being a housewife.

(Source: telegraph.co.uk)