For what it’s worth, I don’t really care or mind the fact that Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi has a messy romantic history, complete with an ex-fiancee he jilted rather suddenly when a princess came around. Nor do I mind or care that Edo has a child born with said ex-fiancee. What I mind is that white royal women get their romances utterly whitewashed while *other royal women* are nitpicked, smeared and berated over nothing in the exact same timeline. So, yes, Edo has a messy history and yes, the mere fact that he’s engaged to Princess Beatrice means nothing is being looked at too closely. The timeline of their relationship is mostly a glossed-over mystery, and Beatrice’s PR is working overtime to convince everyone that she’s going to be bestest “step-mummy” to Edo’s son Christopher (who goes by Wolfie, because British peeps are crazy). And now it looks like young Wolfie will be his dad’s best man in the wedding. Lord.

The Queen has seen many things in her 68-year reign but she will never have witnessed anything like this. I can reveal that a three-year-old boy will be the best man at the wedding of her granddaughter Princess Beatrice. Bea’s fiance, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, has asked his son, Christopher [who is known as Wolfie], to do the honours when they tie the knot at the Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace in May.

‘I can confirm that Wolfie will be best man,’ a spokesman for the couple tells me. Not only will he have to hand his father the wedding rings in front of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family, but he will play an important role at the reception.

‘Surely, he won’t be expected to make a speech at Buckingham Palace?’ asks a shocked courtier when I break the news to them. Wolfie will be the youngest person to have performed a role at a royal wedding throughout the course of British history. A friend of Bea and Edo says they have asked Wolfie to carry out the role because they want to show that he is loved and embraced by his stepmother.

Wolfie’s mother, the American architect Dara Huang, 37, is expected to be invited to the wedding and reception, which will take place in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, as I revealed earlier this month. Bea’s engagement to property developer Edo, 36, was announced by the palace last September. He is the son of Count Alessandro ‘Alex’ Mapelli-Mozzi, former British Olympian and member of an Italian noble family.

[From The Daily Mail]

I wonder if Dara has gotten a few checks to buy her silence? I imagine she would have some interesting gossip, but it doesn’t look like the British tabloids are in a mood to hear what she has to say. Not when you-know-who dares to exist and breathe. As for Young Wolfie acting as best man… British weddings, particularly the upper-crust weddings, are different than the American wedding culture we expect anyway. There’s usually not a big groomsmen assembly or a bridal party. At most, there is a best man and a maid of honor, then the rest of the wedding party is made up of kids anyway. My guess is that the Cambridge children will be asked to take part in the wedding, maybe the Wessex kids and perhaps Zara’s daughters too. So Wolfie won’t be the only child in the wedding party, that’s my point. But yeah… asking this child to be best man? Will the British tabloids run a story about how Edo doesn’t have any friends?

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