Princesses to hit Manhattan on work experience

English princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are reportedly set to hit Manhattan on work-experience placements with their mother.

Sarah, Duchess of York, told The New York Daily News the teenagers, aged 17 and 16, were to spend some time as assistants to her in the city.

“They are coming to New York,” she said.

“All the schools in Britain say you have to do work experience, and my girls, I don’t want to share them with anyone else doing work experience, so they’re coming to do work experience with us, being my assistant.

"There are no better assistants then my girls, because they know me so well.”

In March Beatrice was officially said to have ended her relationship with a New Yorker who had previously pleaded guilty to charges related to a 2002 brawl in which a student died.

A judge found that Paolo Liuzzo, 24, violated his probation when he went on a European ski trip with a friend, during which he was injured and helped by the princess and her family.

Liuzzo was originally charged with manslaughter over the death of Johnathan Duchatellier during a brawl when both were students at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He later pleaded guilty to reduced charges of assault and battery, and was sentenced to three years’ probation and 100 hours of community service.