Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie

Princess Beatrice's personal trainer has revealed the secret behind the young royal's dramatic fitness transformation over the past five years. Personal trainer Nadya Fairweather, who works with the royal once a week when she is in London, praised Beatrice's determination and balanced approach to food for getting her into perfect shape.



The duo have been training together since Beatrice was 18, when she first sought Nadya's help after pictures emerged of her in a bikini while on holiday with her long-term boyfriend Dave Clark. The then-teenager was criticised for her curvaceous figure and sought Nadya's help.



"It was very upsetting," Nadya told The Express. "She was young and I don't know any 18-year-old who has not had a bad photograph taken of them, especially in swimwear, so that is when our relationship started. She just thought, 'Right, I need to get myself in shape because I will never get out of the media,' so we started working together. Beatrice is in great shape. She eats really healthily but she eats, which is massive in a celebrity world full of people starving themselves and doing crazy fad diets. Beatrice has beautiful curves and she embraces that. She does plenty of training on her own between our sessions which makes it easier for me to keep challenging her with new equipment and different styles of training."

Princess Beatrice spoke to sufferers of dyslexia on Thursday, telling them that "dyslexia is an opportunity." The princess, who also suffers from the learning difficulty that affects memory and processing speed, told pupils of Bolingbroke Academy and the ARK Globe Academy in London that dyslexia should never hold them back.



"Dyslexia is not a pigeonhole to say you can’t do anything. It is an opportunity and a possibility to learn differently. You have magical brains, they just process differently. Don’t feel like you should be held back by it," she told the youngsters. Both schools are supported by the Drive for Literacy programme, a partnership between ARK Schools and the Driver Youth Trust, to develop reading and writing skills.



Queen Elizabeth’s grand-daughter went on to add: "I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career – spelling and reading was something I couldn’t really get my head around." The 25-year-old Princess then admitted that it was J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series which changed her opinion on reading, telling pupils: "The second the story came out, I couldn’t put it down. Now I read so much quicker, so much better and I studied history at university which involved a lot of reading."


@yorkiebea Spent the afternoon at Bolingbroke academy, discussing dyslexia with these wonderful students, great questions guys!