Princess Eugenie feels ‘guilty’ about challenging part of parenting she ‘struggles’ with

Princess Eugenie is expecting child number three with husband Jack Brooksbank and she previously opened up about the biggest challenge of parenting

Princess Eugenie is pregnant with her third child (Image: Getty)
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Princess Eugenie announced is expecting child number three with husband Jack Brooksbank this summer — with King Charles said to be “delighted” by the news.

Eugenie has two sons, August and Ernest, five and two respectively, who are “very excited” to welcome another sibling. The mum, 36, shared a picture of her boys holding a baby scan with her 1.7million followers on Instagram with the caption: “Baby Brooksbank 2026!”

Eugenie opened up about motherhood last May when she featured on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast where she revealed the part of parenting that she sometimes struggles with.

Jack Brooksbank and Princess Eugenie (Image: Getty)

Speaking about the challenges, she said: “For me it’s similar, trying to be perfect, not saying that my mum was perfect, but I guess trying to make the perfect world for your children when you don’t hit the mark, feeling that guilt.

“And so I think that’s something that I struggle with or is definitely a challenge where the guilt of maybe not being there the whole time or missing out on a moment or when I lose my temper.

“I think there’s something to remember that little people are little people and we put a lot of old grown-up things like 34 years of grown-upness onto little people sometimes.

“At night, for their bath time routine, you know how stressful that is, and it’s because I like to brush my teeth and brush my hair and have a bath and put my moisturiser on because I’m 34 but this three-and-a-half year old little boy does not want to do any of that.

Princess Eugenie (Image: Getty)

“And it’s to be okay, the bath might be missed one night or tooth brushing might not happen and to go that’s fine because they are little people learning and they can’t be perfect.”

Wrapping up her thoughts, she concluded: “So I think it is just constantly, and that’s what mum always did, she always was the kid as well, and she’d much rather sit and talk to a bunch of kids than she would to talk to grown-ups.

“She always still says now, ‘no grown-ups’, so I think for us, as mums, for me especially, is to, the guilt side of things, not let that consume the days, because the days are so precious.”

Her third child meanwhile, who is expected to be born “in the summer”, will be 15th in line to the throne, but he or she will not have an HRH.

The baby will be the 15th great-grandchild of the late Queen Elizabeth II — and the third to be born since she died in 2022 aged 96.

He or she will also be the fifth grandchild of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after his other daughter, Princess Beatrice, gave birth to a little girl last January.