Princess Eugenie Celebrates Eight Years of Marriage to Jack Brooksbank With a Sweet Family Video
Her post comes as the couple celebrates eight years of marriage
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Eight years of marriage, three children, and a Beatles soundtrack — Princess Eugenie knows how to mark an anniversary. The royal shared a candid Instagram video this week of her husband Jack Brooksbank gently cradling their youngest child, their first daughter, as "Here Comes the Sun" played underneath. The caption was brief and entirely unguarded: "Happy 8 years married my love... so thoughtful, caring, and best Dada there is to our 3. Couldn't have wished for a better partner." Understated, warm, and oddly moving.
Sixteen Years in the Making
According to Harper's Bazaar, the two were introduced through mutual friends on a ski trip in Switzerland back in 2010 — the kind of origin story that sounds too cinematic to be real, except they've been consistent about calling it love at first sight. They dated for years before marrying on October 12, 2018, at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, the same venue Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had used just five months prior. So yes, the math here is that their relationship has actually been running for sixteen years, making the eighth wedding anniversary feel simultaneously like a milestone and a midpoint.
The family has grown quickly since. Son August Philip Hawke Brooksbank arrived three years after the wedding, followed by Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank in 2023. Their daughter — currently referred to publicly only as "baby girl Brooksbank" — was born this past August. Three kids, no official name drop yet on the youngest. The mystery is doing numbers.
What's easy to overlook in the royal family's constant churn of protocol and pageantry is how genuinely warm Eugenie's public presence reads. The Instagram post wasn't manicured or aspirational — it was a man massaging a newborn's head and a wife thinking it was worth sharing with the internet. That specific, slightly silly detail is exactly the kind of thing that makes a relationship feel real rather than performative. No professional photographer. No coordinated outfits. Just The Beatles and a dad being a dad.
Sixteen years after a Swiss ski slope changed everything, the evidence suggests they got it right.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
