Pics Of Princess Eugenie's Stunning Face Transformation

Princess Eugenie, by all rights, should feel not just weighed down but utterly crushed by the long shadow cast by her father Prince Andrew, her mother Sarah Ferguson, and all the major scandals that haunt their family. And yet the young Windsor has managed to weather these controversies with subtlety and grace by, well, mostly doing her own thing. Princess Eugenie and her sister Princess Beatrice have made it clear how they feel about their parents' royal drama, and given how seldom their names pop up whenever their father is mentioned in association with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, one can argue that the strategy has been quite efficient.

Indeed, despite all the noise, Princess Eugenie has managed to keep a low profile and carve out a life both as a dutiful royal and as someone with an actual career that requires showing up to an office where people probably call her Eugenie instead of Your Royal Highness. But the princess' wildest transformation over the decades isn't her career trajectory or her strategic distance from family chaos. It's a face staring back at us from across time, and showing that two decades have a way of doing a number on all of us, regardless of our social standing.

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What you see in her photos today is someone who's done the work in every department. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Princess Eugenie's best show-stopping looks that have redefined "royal chic," or her facial features, like her brows and their overhaul — which have been a subject of debate among professional stylists. The little girl we used to see fumbling through polo matches in ill-fitting fascinators has transformed into a woman who looks like she could both chair a board meeting and curtsy her way through a state banquet with the best of them.

Compare any photo of Princess Eugenie from the early 2000s to now and you'll see a person who's figured out how to exist comfortably in their own skin. Her once over-filled brows have given way to lifted arches that open up her face, and her face, now slimmer, looks much more defined.

All of that has taken real effort. At just 12 years old, Princess Eugenie underwent spinal surgery to correct severe scoliosis. The operation left two titanium rods in her spine, not to mention a scar that she would turn into one of the most defiant acts of self-possession in royal history. At her 2018 wedding to Jack Brooksbank, she commissioned a plunging open-back gown to specifically put that scar on display. "I think you can change the way beauty is, and you can show people your scars," she told ITV (via BBC). That moment may have marked a turning point not just in how the world saw the princess, but how she saw herself, leading to an in inner glow that shines through her face. And then there's the jaw-dropping routine behind Princess Eugenie's weight-loss transformation.

Princess Eugenie has admitted to struggling with weight gain following her two pregnancies, which was affecting the overall silhouette of her face. In her photos today, we see someone who's not just put in the work — and that includes a workout routine and consultation with Prince Harry's nutritionist Gabriela Peacock — but also someone who's stopped trying to be anything other than who she is. As Eugenie explained it to Vogue: "We want to show people who we are as working, young, royal women ... Nowadays it's so easy to recoil when you see a perfect image on Instagram — but it's important that it's real."