The Wedding's Off! Eugenie's Bittersweet Sacrifice

Could the princess Bea any more devoted to her sister?

- Judy Wade, Megan McChesney

It should have been the wedding of the year, another fairytale romance where a royal princess wafted down the aisle to marry an ordinary guy who until recently worked as a bartender. But the big day is now off!

While Princess Eugenie, 27, is still planning to marry her handsome nightclub-manager boyfriend Jack Brooksbank, 31, for now, wedding bells have been postponed for a very touching reason – to protect her big sister from further heartbreak.

Princess Beatrice, 29, was humiliated in August last year when, after a 10-year romance that everyone thought would result in marriage, she was dumped by American businessman Dave Clark, 32.

To rub salt into the wounds, within months, he was dating wealthy advertising executive Lynn Anderson and the pair have now revealed they are engaged.