Star Magazine reports that there is another royal wedding coming up, but don’t expect the same hysteria as that surrounding Prince William’s. In fact, this royal wedding wasn’t even allowed to be announced until Prince William’s was.
So congratulations to Princess Beatrice, the 22-year-old daughter of Prince Andrew and Fergie (the Duchess, not the Black Eyed Pea). She is engaged to her boyfriend of four years, David Clark.
David is the astronaut relations head at Virgin Galactic. How cool a job is that?
“Bea and Dave are closer than ever,” a source says of the couple, who actually got engaged before William and Kate but have been required by royal protocol to let the other duo make their announcement first. “But they didn’t mind waiting to celebrate, since they’re not planning to wed until 2012.”
At the top of the guest list? Probably Wills himself, since he introduced them!
[Star, print edition, December 27, 2010]
Beatrice has had a rough year, after her mother Sarah Ferguson faced bankruptcy and a bribery scandal. An insider told Britain’s Now magazine, “Bea’s had quite a tough year. But Dave’s been there cheering her up and making her smile.”
Beatrice is fifth in line to the throne of England. Plus, she probably gets a window seat on Virgin’s first trip to space, which is cooler in my mind.
They make a cute couple. Too bad Fergie can’t retaliate and not invite the Queen!
She’s a bit young to get married but they make a cute couple. I wish them the best.
Hmmm. Is that Star quesswork? The other royal engagement was announced today: Anne’s daughter Zara Phillips and rugby player Mike Tindall.
Does any one else see a small Heath ledger look about him?
Congrats to them. They seem stable!
They’re cute together! Young, but cute.
Please Princess Beatrice is 22 years old plenty old enough to get married if she is actually engaged to be. though it might be a publicity stunt because she’s jealous of her cousin William. though My mom got married at her age and is still married now nearly 30 years later
Well I sure hope she doesn’t expect her mother to pay for it or she’ll have to come up with some other way to pimp out her ex-husband and his family. Actually, Fergie has probably already negotiated the photo rights with Hello! and OK with a healthy commission to herself. Run Eugenie run.
What a homely girl.
Prince William’s other cousin, Zara Phillips, has just announced her engaged this morning too!
Looks like Bea may have to wait a little bit longer to make her official announcement!
Are William’s cousins competing with him for the spotlight? Seems so. Zara has been living with her boyfriend for years and years, and suddenly within a few weeks of William’s engagement she has to announce her engagement, too?
she is okay to look at as long as she doesn’t SMILE. all those teeth !
Well, she’s definitely from the same gene pool as William! Just shorter with more hair.
@ PJ, I think it is odd too – all these royal engagements all of a sudden.
Oh well, I think I will officially announce MY own engagement right here on CB now too…
Those EYES. She looks like she’s out of that Gaga video. They’re unreal!
She reminds me of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video when she is in the tub with special effects “cartoon eyes”.
Congrats to Cartoon Eyes and her cute boy friend !
Damn, too slow !!
@ P.J.:
Zara has been living with her boyfriend for years and years, and suddenly within a few weeks of William’s engagement she has to announce her engagement, too?
Or, maybe like Princess Beatrice, she wasn’t allowed to announce it until William officially declared his engagement.
That seems more likely. It wasn’t like the proposal to Kate was spontaneous.
She does have crazy eyes.
He’s the son of a rich Londoner so she doesn’t have to worry about money there. He does have a cool job. I think she has gone up in space because I remember reading about him really wanting her to go up there on the flight.
I think David Clark went to school with Prince William which is how they know each other and he introduced them.
She looks like the bastard child of Peaches Geldof and a tarsier.
I mean that in the nicest possible way.
maybe we have all these engagement announcements because they werent allowed to announce before william… just a guess… anyone know how these things work???
Her eyes would be big on a cow
He looks so very, very normal, good for her! She can’t help having wide eyes and lots of teeth, I think they look sweet.
The mag’s wrong. It’s Zara Phillips who got engaged: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/zara-phillips-engaged-mike-tindall-wedding_n_799543.html#s212843
I don’t think this is right. Star is mixing her up with Zara.
The royals sure have big chompers. Mega teeth!
She looks like a perfectly nice young lady–I don’t get why people are bashing her appearance. She is certainly not the ugly creature some of you are saying she is.
Anyway, all that aside, 22 is far too young to be getting married. Yes, I know, we all have friends/relatives who got married straight out of the womb and it’s worked out perfectly fine. That’s all very nice. But the reality is that divorce rates are much higher for couples who marry young. Still, this couple has been together for a long time, so hopefully it will work out well for them.
He is cute!! I volunteer to be launched into outer space with him.
She’s actually very cute. A little quirkly looking, but an adorable girl. Good for her. I hope she can have a normal life.
The best part of being fifth in line to the throne to me would be getting to actually touch my boyfriend in public. Congrats to her if she is, she’s a pretty girl.
is she part lemur?
As Sue Sylvester says, “eyes like a bush baby.”
Bea really is a combination of Fergie and Andrew. But in several of those pix, she looks cute.
“She looks like the bastard child of Peaches Geldof and a tarsier.”
Longtime reader, only my second post – Isabel, I have tears rolling down my cheeks – too funny!
Awww, seriously though, I think she’s a cutie – best of luck to them.
She looks just like her mom! Wow!
She’s cute; A good mix of her parents. But, 22? Very young.
I think she’s cute, very stylish. & that brown bag in the second photo – adorable! I want it!
I think she’s really cute, and she has a much more fun style than Kate does. If this story’s true, I hope they’re very happy together.
As Barney Stinson would say, she’s got a mad case of the “crazy eyes”!
she is very quirky looking, which i like. they are cute together.
The peaches geldof remark was HYSTERICAL…. LMAO over that one !!! they HAVE to be related !!!
Whoa, she has alien eyes!
I know! Her eyes are terrifying!
Ack! I just gave myself guaranteed nightmares by imagining those eyes staring up at you in the bedroom!!
I predict separate bedrooms or those sleepmask thingies will be used in that household.