As questions grow over who funded the York sisters’ lavish lifestyles, how a Libyan gun smuggler was invited to Eugenie’s wedding, while bride Beatrice received ‘£750,000 as a gift’ from Turkish milli

A deep dive into Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice’s very generous, six-figure ‘wedding gifts’ has sparked fresh speculation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s finances, a new book has revealed. Writing in Entitled, historian Andrew Lownie detailed how convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni was among the guests at Eugenie’s nuptials (and had given her an £18,000 diamond necklace for her 21st birthday) while Turkish millionairess Nebahat Isbilen ‘sent some £750,000 into the disgraced Duke’s personal bank account’, allegedly for Beatrice’s ceremony. The elusive attendees, and their plentiful sums, are often linked to the princesses’ parents and their various financial endeavours throughout the years…