Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
(Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988) is a member of the
British royal family. She is the elder daughter of
Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and
Sarah, Duchess of York
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. She is a niece of
Charles III
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and a granddaughter of
Elizabeth II
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. Born fifth in
line of succession to the British throne
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, she is now ninth. She has a younger sister,
Princess Eugenie
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.
Born in
Portland Hospital
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History
The Portland was conceived by Barry Lewis, a ...
, London, Beatrice attended
St George's School, Ascot, before studying at
Goldsmiths College
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, graduating with a bachelor's degree in history. She was briefly employed at the
Foreign Office
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and
Sony Pictures
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before joining software company
Afiniti
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as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. Beatrice also works privately with a number of charitable organisations, including the
Teenage Cancer Trust
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and
Outward Bound
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.
She
married
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Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
Edoardo Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi (born 19 November 1983) is an English property developer. He is the founder and chief executive of Banda Property, a property development and interior design company. He is married to Princess Beatrice, a niece o ...
, a
property developer
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and
Italian noble, in 2020. Their daughter Sienna Elizabeth was born on 18 September 2021.
Upon the
death of Elizabeth II
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and the accession of King Charles III, Princess Beatrice became a
Counsellor of State
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, a senior position within the royal family limited to the first four in the line of succession over the age of 21 and the sovereign's
consort __NOTOC__
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.
Early life and education
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Princess Beatrice was born at 8:18 pm on 8 August 1988 at the
Portland Hospital
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History
The Portland was conceived by Barry Lewis, a ...
,
the first child of the
Duke
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and
Duchess of York, and fifth grandchild of
Queen Elizabeth II
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and
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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. She was
baptised
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in the
Chapel Royal
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at
St James's Palace
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on 20 December 1988, her godparents being
Viscount Linley (her father's cousin, now the 2nd Earl of Snowdon); the Duchess of Roxburghe (now Lady Jane Dawnay);
Peter Palumbo; Gabrielle Greenall; and Carolyn Cotterell.
Her name, an unexpected choice, was not announced until almost two weeks after her birth.
Beatrice's parents divorced amicably when she was seven years old. The Duke and Duchess of York had agreed to joint custody of their two children. After the divorce, the Queen provided her parents with £1.4 million to set up a trust fund for her and Eugenie. Beatrice and her sister frequently travelled abroad with one or both of their parents.
Beatrice began her early education at the independent Upton House School in
Windsor
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, in 1991. From there, she and her sister both attended the independent Coworth Park School (now Coworth Flexlands School) from 1995.
Beatrice continued her education at the independent
St George's School in
Ascot, where she was a pupil from 2000 to 2007. She was diagnosed with
dyslexia at the age of seven and went public with the diagnosis in 2005.
She delayed sitting her
GCSE exams for one year. She remained at St George's to take her
A-Levels
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, earning an 'A' in drama, a 'B' in history, and a 'B' in film studies. She was elected
Head Girl
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in her final year,
and was a member of the school choir. Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday with a masked ball at Windsor Castle in July 2006.
Nikolai von Bismarck
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took her official birthday portrait.
In September 2008, Beatrice started a three-year course studying for a BA in history and history of ideas at
Goldsmiths, University of London
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. She graduated in 2011 with a
2:1 degree.
Career
During the summer of 2008, Beatrice obtained work experience as a sales assistant at Selfridges
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. She also worked at the Foreign Office's press office for a period of time without receiving a salary. It was also reported in 2008 that Beatrice was interested in pursuing a career at the ''Financial Times
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'' website. Beatrice was the first member of the family to appear in a non-documentary film when she had a small, non-speaking role as an extra
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in ''The Young Victoria
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'' (2009), based on the accession and early reign of her ancestor Queen Victoria
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. For a while, she was a paid intern at Sony Pictures
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, but she resigned after the hacking incident that affected the company in late 2014.
In April 2015, it was reported that Beatrice had decided to move to New York City. , Beatrice had a full-time job and split her time between London and New York City. She is known as Beatrice York in her professional life and is Vice President of Partnerships and Strategy at Afiniti
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. She is also in charge of an Afiniti programme to engage senior business chiefs around the world to support women in leadership. She works with the programme through charity endeavours and speaking engagements.
In January 2022, it was reported that Beatrice had lost her taxpayer-funded police security in 2011, supposedly after her uncle Charles III
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(then Prince of Wales) intervened.
Personal life
Early relationships
In 2006, Beatrice was briefly in a relationship with Paolo Liuzzo, an American whose previous charge for assault and battery
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caused controversy at the time. For ten years, until July 2016, she was in a relationship with Virgin Galactic
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businessman Dave Clark.
Marriage and family
In March 2019, Beatrice attended a fundraising event at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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, accompanied by property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
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, the son of Alex Mapelli-Mozzi
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", like his father; however, that title is not officially recognised in Italy or the UK. The couple are believed to have begun dating in September 2018. Together, they attended the wedding of
, Beatrice's second cousin once removed.
Princess Beatrice and Mozzi became engaged in Italy in September 2019, with their engagement formally announced by the Duke of York's Office on 26 September.
but first the reception and then the wedding itself were postponed because of the
. The wedding was eventually held in private on 17 July 2020, at the
, Royal Lodge, Windsor, and was not publicly announced in advance. Beatrice's father walked her down the aisle.
that was also worn by the Queen at her own wedding.
Princess Beatrice has a stepson, Christopher Woolf (born 2016), her husband's child from a relationship with architect
.
She gave birth to a daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, on 18 September 2021 at the
, London. With the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, the child became 10th in line to the throne.
Sienna was christened at the
, on 29 April 2022.
. In Britain, she supported Springboard for Children (a literacy project for primary-school children with learning difficulties) and the
. In an interview to mark her 18th birthday, Beatrice said she wanted to use her position to assist others through charity work; she had already undertaken charitable duties alongside her mother through the various organisations the Duchess supported.