8 Outdated Outfits Princess Beatrice Wore That Take Us Back In Time

If you pay attention to the tabloids, there's no denying Princess Beatrice's approach to fashion is unconventional. That's likely owed to her upbringing.
Many will know her best as the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew — whose close ties to Jeffrey Epstein and disastrous "Newsnight" interview forced him to step back from public duties in disgrace. Beatrice's mother, Sarah Ferguson, has also had her fair share of scandals, notorious for her money troubles and toe-sucking photographs that were splashed across the tabloids in the 1990s. Beatrice, as a result, has lived much of her life under the dark cloud of her parents' prolonged, self-inflicted downfalls.

Alongside her sister Eugenie, Beatrice has attempted to carve out an identity beyond the press scandals, describing her upbringing as "regular" in a 2023 British Vogue interview. The word jars, not least because Beatrice's life is anything but. A reported £1.4 million trust fund, private schooling, and the full weight of royal privilege have ensured Beatrice's world is far beyond ordinary.

Still, this hasn't helped her in the fashion department. Over the years, Beatrice's public appearances have produced a near-endless carousel of trends already on their way to obsolescence. So much so that her sartorial choices have earned her a place in our roundups of inappropriate outfits worn royal women were caught wearing and royal family looks that were beyond controversial. Like her sister, Eugenie, who has also been caught wearing outdated trends, Beatrice has become a cautionary tale of what happens when royal wardrobes lag behind the times. Her privilege definitely hasn't spared her from a steady stream of style missteps.

Princess Beatrice wore her nostalgia front and center, quite literally, in a black midi dress with three glitter-flecked bows marching down the bodice, each framing a small keyhole cutout. Bows situate us in two eras at once: that amorphous realm of girlhood, whenever it falls on your personal timeline, and 2024, the year they dominated runways and Pinterest feeds. At first, bows were embraced as the image of sweet, photogenic femininity. But over-saturation is the death knell of any trend. By year's end, they were simply "knot" what they used to be. The bow's charm had spoiled, recast as the accessory of choice for the trad-wife revival.

In this forest green midi dress with long sleeves, a modest neckline, a prim row of buttons, full skirt, and a belt pulled taut at the waist, Beatrice could be stepping out of a World War II-era newsreel. This is the kind of thing a vicar's wife might wear to the village féte. A gold pillbox-style hat and sensible Mary Janes complete the tableau, sealing her in an unforgiving time warp that does her no favors.

In this belted black blazer and long tulle skirt, Beatrice's outfit feels like it predates the era when celebrity stylists became standard issue. The formless cut offers no definition and obscures her shape, while the heavy, dark palette swallows her coloring, leaving her looking washed out. Too much black, especially in heavy fabrics, is one of the outdated fashions trends guaranteed to instantly age you, too. That Beatrice wore this to the FEVO Sport Industry Awards as late as 2025 only makes the anti-styling attitude feel more pronounced.

By the time Beatrice wore this head-to-toe burgundy look to a Christmas carol concert in 2024 — with a double-breasted coat, patterned midi dress, and matching pointed stilettos — skyscraper heels were already well on their way to becoming one of the outdated heel trends to step away from. Fashion had been pivoting towards lower, blocky silhouettes, leaving sky-high stilettos looking more dated. Paired with the heavy coat and deep tones, you'd be forgiven for mistaking this for an early-2010s office party outfit.

Here, Beatrice took a leaf out of the Republican Party's lookbook, pairing a high-necked, long-sleeved floral midi dress with the most uninspiring heel of the decade: the nude, pointed-toe pump. It's the bland shoe trend that's taken MAGA women by storm, wheeled out for every event, regardless of season or outfit. We've been pleading for ages for an alternative, but the style persists. On Beatrice, it drains life from an already subdued palette.

At the Wonderland Gala in 2025, Beatrice doubled down on outdated trends, managing to commit two faux pas' in a single look. The first: a decorative bow fastened at the neckline. The second: the same nude, pointed-toe heels beloved by the MAGA set. Worn together, they're twice as tired, and cement her look firmly on the wrong side of the trend cycle. This was a pairing past its prime.

Cutout clothing had already been flagged as totally outdated in 2023, so when Beatrice stepped out in this keyhole ensemble for a flower show that summer, she looked behind the times. Once pitched as a playful way to flash some skin, the skin-baring look feels like a relic from the late 2010s — and worse, it has a tendency to look cheap, even on high-end pieces.  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem there's any hope for this look to have a resurgence anytime soon, as it appeared on our list of outdated trends for 2025.

In the spring/summer season of 2025, butter yellow was the go-to shade to spread across all of your outfits. Wardrobes everywhere basked in its creamy glow. Beatrice, however, missed the mark at Royal Ascot when she served up the wrong shade. Instead of a soft butter, she went full lemon in a chirping, canary-bright frock. Didn't she know the moment called for smooth, not sour? Perhaps she should have looked to Kamala Harris' Easter Sunday pantsuit in the summer's hottest color trend, or even her cousin-in-law, Kate Middleton, who jumped on the butter yellow trend at the Royal Garden Party.