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Jennifer Newton

Princess Eugenie shares behind-the-scene photo of royals watching Jubilee on Palace roof

Princess Eugenie has shared a behind the scenes glimpse of the royals watching the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations from the Buckingham Palace roof.

The Queen's granddaughter took to her Instagram stories to share photos and some video from Trooping the Colour today and the spectacular fly-past by the RAF.

In the photos, Eugenie can be seen gazing up at the skies alongside her husband Jack Brooksbank and their one-year-old son August.

Eugenie is wearing a light blue dress with lace detailing. She teamed it with a light brown fascinator which sits on her beautifully curled brown hair.

Little August is wearing a brown baseball cap with a white shirt and blue bib while his dad Jack is wearing a black suit with a blue tie.

Princess Eugenie watching the RAF flypast from what appears to be the Buckingham Palace roof (instagram.com/princesseugenie)
Eugenie was joined by husband Jack Brooksbank and son August (instagram.com/princesseugenie)

Her sister Princess Beatrice can also be seen in the background of the shot.

Meanwhile in a video Eugenie has posted of the Red Arrows flying overhead, other royals including Mia Tindall, daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall can be seen on the roof.

Eugenie, Beatrice and the other royals including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were not on the Buckingham Palace balcony with the Queen after she limited balcony appearances to working royals only - and selected other children.

Princess Eugenie with her grandmother the Queen, who is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee (Getty Images)

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Her post today came after she paid a moving personal tribute to her kind and patient "grannie" the Queen on the eve of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

Eugenie, one of the monarch's eight grandchildren, said she hoped her one-year-old son August would grow to have the Queen’s “patience, her calmness and her kindness while always being able to laugh at himself and keep a twinkle in his eye”.

The Queen and the other royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony today (Ian Vogler / Daily Mirror)

She described the nation’s longest-reigning monarch as having transcended time and been “a constant rock for so many”.

Reflecting on her “own special little family” with the arrival of August, who was born in February last year, Eugenie said: “I think of my grannie and what she has stood for, for so many people and for our family during these 70 years.

“I’d love Augie to have her patience, her calmness and her kindness, while always being able to laugh at himself and keep a twinkle in his eye.”

In the piece in Spectator magazine entitled “My pride in Grannie”, the princess said: “Seventy years is really quite something, isn’t it?

“The Jubilee stands as a testimony to a woman who has transcended time and has been that constant rock for so many when the world can feel so fragile.”

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