Today in horrifying metaphors, King Charles is reportedly being pressured to “lance the boil” that is the York family. And apparently said pressure is coming from Queen Camilla.

A source says Her Majesty is “leading the anti-York faction” and is “instrumental” in attempts to push out Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie amid their father ex-Prince Andrew’s scandals.

“Her attitude is that they are all a stain on the monarchy,” an insider tells The Daily Mail, nothing that Queen Camilla (and Prince William) are pushing for “clearer action to distance the institution from the entire York branch of the family. The King is still very fond of Beatrice and Eugenie though. William isn’t as close to Beatrice and Eugenie as Harry is but in the past few years, he has invited Beatrice and Eugenie as well as other cousins to help him and Catherine host one of the Buckingham Palace garden parties. They weren’t there at this year’s one on Friday. Only Zara was there out of the cousins. At the moment their presence at any royal event is going to completely overshadow everything.”

The source notes that Kate and William didn’t congratulate Princess Eugenie on news of her third pregnancy, saying “The way he and Kate have pointedly not publicly welcomed the baby news is a sign of how things have changed.’

Meanwhile, royal expert Phil Dampier says “Relations between the Yorks and the rest of the royals are at an all time low. If moves are being made to take Andrew out of the line of succession there must be a possibility that Beatrice and Eugenie, as well as their children, will also be taken out, lancing the boil once and for all.”

He adds that “It seems ridiculous that when Eugenie’s third child arrives he or she will be above Princess Anne for example. But that’s the system. Times are changing fast and if the future of the monarchy is at stake I think the King, followed by William, will take appropriate action.”