1. Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is a member of the British royal family.
42 Facts About Princess Beatrice
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Princess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York.
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Princess Beatrice was briefly employed at the Foreign Office and Sony Pictures before joining software company Afiniti as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.
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Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, a property developer and English-born Italian noble, in 2020.
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Princess Beatrice was born at 8:18 pm on 8 August 1988 at the Portland Hospital in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, and fifth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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Princess Beatrice was baptised in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace on 20 December 1988, her godparents being Viscount Linley ; the Duchess of Roxburghe ; Peter Palumbo; Gabrielle Greenall; and Carolyn Cotterell.
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Princess Beatrice's younger sister, Princess Eugenie, was born in 1990.
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Princess Beatrice's parents divorced amicably when she was seven years old and agreed to joint custody of their two children.
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Princess Beatrice began her early education at the independent Upton House School in Windsor, in 1991.
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Princess Beatrice continued her education at the independent St George's School in Ascot, where she was a pupil from 2000 to 2007.
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Princess Beatrice was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of seven and went public with the diagnosis in 2005.
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Princess Beatrice delayed sitting her GCSE exams for one year.
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Princess Beatrice remained at St George's to take her A-Levels, earning an 'A' in drama, a 'B' in history, and a 'B' in film studies.
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Princess Beatrice was elected Head Girl in her final year, and was a member of the school choir.
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Princess Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday with a masked ball at Windsor Castle in July 2006.
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In September 2008, Princess 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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Princess Beatrice worked at the Foreign Office's press office for a period of time without receiving a salary.
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Princess 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 in The Young Victoria, based on the accession and early reign of her ancestor Queen Victoria.
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Princess Beatrice is known as Beatrice York in her professional life and is Vice President of Partnerships and Strategy at Afiniti.
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Princess Beatrice is in charge of an Afiniti programme to engage senior business chiefs around the world to support women in leadership.
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In January 2022, it was reported that Princess Beatrice had lost her taxpayer-funded police security in 2011, supposedly after her uncle Charles III intervened.
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Princess Beatrice visited the Isle of Wight in 2014, whose governor had been Beatrice's namesake Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria.
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Princess Beatrice accompanied her father during an official engagement in the United Arab Emirates on 24 November 2014.
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On 17 September 2022, during the period of official mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Beatrice joined her sister and six cousins to mount a 15-minute vigil around the coffin of the late Queen, as it lay in state at Westminster Hall.
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In 2006, Princess Beatrice was briefly in a relationship with Paolo Liuzzo, an American whose previous charge for assault and battery caused controversy at the time.
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In March 2019, Princess Beatrice attended a fundraising event at the National Portrait Gallery, London, accompanied by property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, the son of Alex Mapelli-Mozzi, a British-Italian Olympic alpine skier.
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Princess Beatrice's wedding dress was a remodelled Norman Hartnell dress that was lent by the Queen, and she wore the Queen Mary Fringe Tiara that was worn by the Queen at her own wedding.
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Princess Beatrice has a stepson, Christopher Woolf, her husband's child from a relationship with architect Dara Huang.
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Princess Beatrice gave birth to a daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, on 18 September 2021 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Chelsea, London.
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Princess Beatrice gave birth to a second daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi, on 22 January 2025 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, several weeks prematurely.
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In 2002, Princess Beatrice visited children living with HIV in Russia.
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Princess Beatrice is the patron of Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, which supports children with life-shortening conditions in West Yorkshire and North Manchester.
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In November 2012, Princess Beatrice became a patron of the York Musical Society.
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In 2018, Children in Crisis merged with Street Child, a children's charity active in multiple countries, with Princess Beatrice serving as its ambassador.
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Princess Beatrice is a supporter of the Pitch@Palace initiative, a charity her father founded to amplify and accelerate entrepreneurs' business ideas.
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Princess Beatrice took part in a South Asia Tour 2016 that lasted nine days.
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Princess Beatrice visited Nepal, India, and Bhutan on behalf of the Franks Family Foundation, and Jamgon Kongtrul Eyes Centres, a free micro-surgical cataract programme in technical collaboration with Nepal's Tilganga Eye Centre under Nepali eye surgeon Sanduk Ruit's direction.
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Princess Beatrice is the founder of Big Change, a charity she established with six of her friends to encourage young people to develop skills "outside a traditional academic curriculum".
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In 2017, Princess Beatrice helped promote the anti-bullying book Be Cool Be Nice and gave an interview to Vogue at a House of Lords event, speaking about her own experiences with being bullied for her fashion choices in her early adulthood.
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In March 2019, Princess Beatrice was elected to the board of the UK charity the Outward Bound Trust as a trustee, after her father took over the patronage from his father, the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Princess Beatrice has supported the Kairos HQ, a non-profit organisation of entrepreneurs at universities in China, Europe, India and the US.
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In February 2023, Princess Beatrice was named patron of the British Skin Foundation.