Princess Beatrice of York with Italian real estate developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. (AFP)
London:
Prince Andrew’s eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice, married her business fiance on Friday in a private ceremony after postponing the wedding due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Beatrice, 31, was to marry Italian real estate developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 37, at St James’s Palace in central London on May 29.
However, the wedding was pending and no postponed date has been given.
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the couple had tied a knot in an unexpected ceremony in front of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and a small number of guests.
“The private wedding ceremony for Princess Beatrice and Mr. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi took place at 11:00 am (1000 GMT) on Friday July 17 at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at the Royal Lodge, Windsor,” said the family. royal in a statement. .
“The small ceremony brought together the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip) and a close family. The marriage took place in accordance with all relevant government directives.”
The queen, 94, and her 99-year-old husband self-isolated at the castle in West London because their age puts them in a high-risk category for coronavirus.
Béatrice and her sister Eugénie, 30, are the daughters of Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. The two attended the ceremony, as did the groom’s parents, reports said.
Andrew retired from front-line royal duties last year after provoking outrage in a television interview defending his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein, a millionaire American financier, was found dead in prison last year while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
Andrew, 60, denied claiming to have sex with a 17-year-old girl who was trafficked from Epstein.
American investigators are impatient to talk to the prince about his ties to Epstein, after the arrest of British socialist Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of sex trafficking.
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