Princess Eugenie will become the FIRST royal to launch her own podcast

Princess Eugenie is set to become the first member of the Royal Family to launch her own podcast. 

The royal, 29, who is tenth in line to throne, will co-host the show with her close friend Julia De Boinville in the name of their charity, The Anti-Slavery Collective.

‘We are developing a podcast with Freedom United, and we will have a speaker series called Tech Tackles Trafficking,’ she said, speaking on Instagram TV.

‘Now is the time to talk about this, this is already on everyone’s minds. If it isn’t, we are making it on their minds. We are doing this for the person who can’t scream and shout about their situation like we can.’

Tackling modern slavery has long been an important cause for the royal, who first became passionate about it after visiting Women’s Interlink during a 2013 trip to India with her mother, Sarah, Duchess of York.

Following her visit to the charity – which helps vulnerable women find employment opportunities – Eugenie became involved with several different organisations , such as the Salvation Army, before starting her own initiative.

Her new podcast will tackle the issue, which affect more than 40 million people around the world today.  

‘We witnessed first-hand how many amazing charities there are in the UK and beyond, doing phenomenal work, so we wondered how we could highlight the work they are doing and raise awareness,’ Julia said in the same video. 

Princess Eugenie, 29, speaks about her work as Director of her charity, the Anti-Slavery Collective During the Nexus Meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York City in July last year

‘And with that we launched the Anti-Slavery Collective. The Anti-Slavery Collective’s mission is to bring people together, because together we are so much more powerful and impact serious change.’

Eugenie and Julia set up The Anti-Slavery Collective in 2017 – an ‘independent collective whose mission is to bring change-makers together to raise awareness for modern slavery as a global epidemic’.

The pair are long-term friends who first met when they were both at school.  

Eugenie pictured talking in the video which appeared on Instagram Live and on The Anti Slavery Collective website. She also talks about she met Julia on a bus going on a school trip

Eugenie and Julia set up The Anti-Slavery Collective in 2017. It is ‘an independent collective whose mission is to bring change-makers together to raise awareness for modern slavery’

‘We met on the bus going on a school trip and we knew that this was just the beginning of a life-long adventure and friendship,’ their charity website reads. 

‘After following each other around the world, then to Newcastle University, and into our careers; in 2012 we went on a trip to Kolkata, India.’ 

The trip to India was the kick starter after it opened their eyes to the extent of modern slavery.