Princess Andre addresses Katie Price birthday 'snub' after dad's furious statement

Princess Andre has set the record straight after claims that her mum Katie Price was banned from her 18th birthday soiree amid growing tensions with her ex Peter Andre.

The birthday bash, which seemingly sparked the latest row between Katie and Peter, saw Princess celebrate with her dad and other family members as the cameras rolled for her new reality show, The Princess Diaries.

Just before the docu-series aired, Katie admitted she was "upset" over not being at the party. She said on her podcast: "Certain people don't think it's good for Princess to be seen with me. Certain people that used to look after me. It's pathetic. I'm her mother. It's sad ... Princess was like 'I'm having a party'. And I wasn't invited because it was for 'filming.'"

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But Princess, who turned 18 in June, has said that stories suggesting she deliberately excluded her mum from her televised celebration are misleading. The teen insisted that it wasn't a deliberate snub to exclude Katie, 47.

The influencer said simply that she was living with her dad when filming took place, so it was he who naturally appeared in the show more frequently. "It was never true that I said I didn't want her in it," she told The Guardian in a new interview.

When asked about the birthday party, Princess described how the concept of her having two separate celebrations - meaning spending time with each parent - was standard for her life after their split.

Her mother wasn't invited to the intimate family gathering with her father, but she said: "It would be quite strange for my mum and dad to be in it at the same time."

Katie Price and Peter Andre have been at loggerheads since their split in 2009. The TV couple had been married for four years, and had welcomed children Junior and Princess after meeting on ITV's I'm A Celeb in 2004.

Princess's comments come in the wake of her father's surprise public response to claims made by Katie Price about their children's living arrangements.

In a scathing statement, Peter stated that Princess and her brother Junior have lived with him "for safety reasons" since 2018.

Posting on Instagram, the father-of-five broke what he described as 16 years of silence, writing: "For sixteen years, I have stayed silent in the face of repeated lies from my ex-wife and her family, out of respect for my children and loved ones, but staying silent has been incredibly frustrating. That ends today.

"The latest comments about my children’s welfare and living arrangements compel me to set the record straight. For well-documented reasons, and for their safety, Junior and Princess came into my care in 2018 and remained with me until they reached adulthood. In 2019, the family courts issued a legally binding order to enforce this arrangement. I have never made this public before, out of respect for my children.

"In 2011 and 2015, publicly documented court cases found my ex-wife had made false claims. She was ordered to pay substantial damages and legal costs, and to apologise to me and my management. The same falsehoods are being repeated today. Unfortunately, there are many more lies and baseless accusations I have yet to address. Those will now be dealt with in the coming months."

In response to the statement, a spokesperson for Katie told the Mirror: "Kate is in a much better and clear headspace and is at peace with the situation. This was in the past and she doesn't feel the need to bring up tit-for-tat comments, but more importantly, she’s dealing with this the right way and it’s now in her lawyers’ hands. Kate will no longer be gaslighted and bullied as she once was..."