Beatriz de York, granddaughter of Elizabeth II, is expecting her first child.
The 32-year-old princess and her husband, the Italian Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, were married in July last year in an intimate ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Now, their first child in common (he has one from a previous relationship) will come into the world in August.
Beatriz's pregnancy has been announced through the accounts of the British royal family. In them it has been pointed out that "the queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the news." Not even the parents of the princess are mentioned, considered - especially him - almost outcasts of the royal family. Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth II's third son, fell from grace a year and a half ago, when his connections to pedophile magnate Jeffrey Epstein became public. His situation worsened seriously when he gave an interview to the BBC where he spoke of his friendship with the late millionaire full of doubts and inconsistencies. Then he lost the support of the companies and institutions that supported him. A few days later, the royal family decided to remove him from public life and remove him from their patronages.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are very pleased to announce that they are expecting a baby in autumn of this year.
The Queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.
📸 The couple on their wedding day in July 2020. pic.twitter.com/oCHZLBa8oT
- The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) May 19, 2021
In fact, Andrés did not even appear in official portraits for his daughter Beatriz's wedding to Mapelli Mozzi last summer.
Nor did Sarah Ferguson, the queen's most uncomfortable ex-wife, appear.
In fact, only Beatriz and Edoardo appeared in the snapshots, accompanied by the bride's grandparents, Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, in what was one of the Duke's last appearances before he died in April.
Beatriz's baby will be the second grandson of Andrés de York and Sarah Ferguson, after their daughter Eugenia and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, had a boy named August last February. The little one became the sovereign's ninth great-grandson, while Beatriz's will be 11th (and will also occupy the 11th position in the line of succession to the British throne), because in the meantime Enrique and Meghan Markle will have their second daughter This summer, she will be the tenth great-granddaughter.
Beatriz and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have been friends since their youth, because their parents have had a close relationship for years. He, an Italian, owns a consulting firm called Banda that he founded in 2007 and which is dedicated to the luxury real estate sector. In addition, she has a foundation dedicated to cricket, one of her passions, which promotes gender equality in Rwanda. She, in addition to representing the crown in official acts, has no known occupation. The couple have been dating for about three years and announced their engagement in September 2019. They were scheduled to get married in May, but due to the coronavirus they decided to cancel their wedding. They finally got married in Windsor on July 17 and two days later they showed the photos of their wedding, where she was wearing a dress designed by Norman Hartnell that her grandmother, the queen,had worn in the sixties.