Eugenie wins promotion – despite all those hols

WHATEVER it is that Princess Eugenie does when she’s in the office, it’s obviously highly effective.

Because the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, has just been handed a promotion at work despite reportedly racking up a remarkable 25 days’ holiday in her first ten weeks in the job.

The Queen’s granddaughter has been promoted to the role of director of the Hauser & Wirth contemporary art gallery in London.

‘Eugenie is working hard and doing a good job,’ insists one of her friends. ‘The promotion is well deserved.’ It comes less than two years after she joined the Mayfair gallery.

Eugenie, 27, soon hit the headlines when it was reported that she had been banned from attending her mother Fergie’s birthday celebrations in New York.

Eugenie’s bosses were said to have ordered her to remain in London to work on a stall at an art fair.

She was reportedly absent for an astonishing 50 per cent of the time during her first ten weeks.

First, she took a day off to attend Ladies’ Day at Glorious Goodwood. Then, she was believed to have spent four days at Balmoral.

The Princess reportedly jetted off

to Europe for a threeweek break, before packing her bags again, three days later, for a weeklong trip to New York. ‘Because she is a Royal, the company does expect Eugenie to take more time off than most,’ a source at H&W admitted at the time. Eugenie — who graduated from Newcastle University with a 2:1 degree in English and history of art five years ago — had previously worked in Manhattan for online auction company Paddle8.

But she was reportedly lured back home with a hefty pay rise and the desire to be reunited with her long-term boyfriend, the former barman-turnedentrepreneur Jack Brooksbank, 30.

Her sister, Princess Beatrice, 28, who was previously criticised for taking 18 holidays in 15 months, landed a globetrotting role with an U.S. IT firm earlier this year.