By Molly Claire Goddard
9:40am PST, Nov 13, 2025
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According to
The Times, the Hauser and Wirth gallery in London, where Princess Eugenie has served as associate director since 2015, is being accused of supplying luxury goods to a "person connected with Russia" between April and December 2022. The report alleged that they sold the painting "Escape from Humanity" by American artist
George Condo to
Alexander Popov.
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A spokesperson for the Hauser and Wirth gallery said in a
statement, "Our U.K. gallery has been charged with one instance of making an item of artwork available to a non-sanctioned person connected with Russia. We are fully committed to complying with all our legal obligations, including sanctions. As the case is ongoing, we are unable to comment further other than to say we strongly contest this charge and intend to plead not guilty."
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Since April 2022, the Department for International Trade has imposed a ban on the export of items to Russia valued over $330. Princess Eugenie was reportedly not involved in the sale and does not sit on the gallery's London board. Alexander Popov is not under the British government's sanction, and there is no suggestion that he is accused of wrongdoing.
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Princess Eugenie has enough drama in her life after her father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and her mother, Sarah Ferguson, were stripped of their royal titles and evicted from Royal Lodge over their connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
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While Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice will keep their titles, the scandal involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson has yet to die down. "The Yorks are an extremely close-knit family. The disgrace of Sarah Ferguson has followed that of Prince Andrew, who has become an international pariah," royal expert
Richard Fitzwilliams said. "Princess Beatrice and
Princess Eugenie will find their parents'
predicament devastating."
