Royal Wedding Q&A: The lowdown on Beatrice and Edoardo
Buckingham Palace has announced Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are to wed next year.
With the royals celebrating another engagement, who are Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi?
– Who is Princess Beatrice?
Beatrice is the eldest daughter of the Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York.
Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York was born fifth in line to the throne on August 8, 1988.
– What is her job?
Beatrice is not a full-time working royal.
The 31-year-old has a full-time job at Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software firm, where she is vice president of partnerships and strategy.
According to Afiniti’s website, she is “responsible for the management of the strategic Afiniti partnerships as well as company growth through unique initiatives and client development”.
– What else do we know about the princess?
She hit the headlines with the unusual “pretzel” hat which she wore to William and Kate’s wedding in 2011.
She split from her long-term love Dave Clark in 2016 after 10 years together.
Beatrice told British Vogue: “We have the same size feet and both of us had identical pairs. One pair got trashed and the other sister may have swapped them.”
She calls her mother Sarah, Duchess of York “Mumsy” and her father Papa.
– And her fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi?
The 35-year-old millionaire property tycoon, known as Edo, is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis.
He is a count himself, and has been a friend of the Yorks for some time.
He died from heart disease at the Glastonbury Festival in 2011.
– And Beatrice will become a stepmother?
Yes. Edoardo has a young son named Wolfie with ex-fiancee Dara Huang.
– Where did the couple meet?
His family has known Beatrice for most of her life, being friends with the Yorks.
The princess is said to have begun dating Edoardo after meeting him again at Eugenie’s wedding.
– When and where will the wedding be?
Buckingham Palace said the pair will wed in 2020.
The venue has yet to be announced. One possibility could be St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where Eugenie, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, staged their weddings.
But Ladbrokes are also tipping Westminster Abbey, where the Yorks and William and Kate married.
