Princess Eugenie is expecting her third child with Jack Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday, confirming the news after the royal shared it on Instagram. The palace said the King has been informed and is delighted with the news.
Princess Eugenie’s post showed her two children holding a baby scan, with the caption: “Baby Brooksbank due 2026!” August is five years old and Ernest is two. The new arrival will be 15th in line to the throne and will move ahead of Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh.
The pregnancy adds another child to a family that has grown steadily since Eugenie and Brooksbank married in October 2018. They welcomed their first child in February 2021, and Ernest was born in May 2023. Brooksbank marked his 40th birthday on Sunday, just as the couple prepared for their third child.
The baby will become Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s fifth grandchild, and the announcement again nudges the line of succession. For Eugenie, a working member of the royal family, the news is immediate and personal, but it also has a formal consequence: another step in the long, quiet reshuffling that comes with every royal birth.
That is the point of today’s announcement. The pregnancy is public, the Palace has confirmed it, and the child’s place in the succession is already fixed. What comes next is the arrival itself, due in 2026.
