Erin McNaught is good friends with Princess Beatrice.

Princess Beatrice

Princess Beatrice

The 34-year-old model has struck up a bond with the 28-year-old royal - who is the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth - after she and her husband Example, whose real name is Elliott Gleave, went out to dinner with her in London.

Speaking on Australia's 'The Morning Show' on Monday (12.12.16), she said: "We've been out for dinner with Princess Beatrice... in London you really do just hang out with people. She's really lovely, really ambitious girl."

And Beatrice's friendship with the model will unlikely sit well with her father Prince Andrew as he recently asked his mother to help improve the status of Beatrice and her sister Princess Eugenie, 26, as well as their partners, because he doesn't want his grandchildren to be viewed as lower class "commoners".

Speaking about the reason behind the Duke of York's plan in Ephraim Hardcastle's column in the Daily Mail newspaper, a source said: "His daughters' children will be commoners, defined as one of the ordinary or common people, as opposed to the aristocracy or to royalty."

However, the Royal convention ensures all of the monarch's children claim the title Her Royal Highness, which is then subsequently inherited by her grandchildren, who are born to her sons.

And if Beatrice or Eugenie marry non-aristocrats or to anyone who is not considered a royal and decide to have a family, their children will have no right to the title, which Andrew doesn't agree with.

This news comes after a recent discussion over whether Andrew's daughters - who are seventh and eighth in line to the throne - should be given full-time royal duties, to be funded by tax payers and to reside in the apartments at Kensington Palace.

Although Andrew is in favour of allowing his brood more prominent roles within the Royal family, Prince Charles - who has sons Prince William and Prince Harry - reportedly disapproves of the request.

And it has been reported the 90-year-old monarch was undecided how to settle the dispute, and she has passed it on to her private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt, to come up with a solution.

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