Princess Beatrice’s wedding had to follow the government’s guidelines for the size of gatherings and weddings, meaning they had to keep it to under 20 people. Since the entire wedding was for Queen Elizabeth II and likely stage-managed by the Queen’s people, it does not look like the rest of the royal family even bothered to come beyond the Queen and Prince Philip. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall reportedly skipped it, as did the Sussexes (obviously) and the Cambridges, probably:
It’s unclear if Prince William, Kate, and their three children were in attendance to hear Beatrice and her fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi say “I do” on Friday in Windsor. Buckingham Palace has not shared many details about the event publicly, and photos from the celebration were only released publicly this evening. But based on a recent statement, it’s likely Will, Kate, and their kids were not there.
“The couple decided to hold a small private ceremony with their parents and siblings following the postponement of their wedding in May,” reads the note. “Working within government guidelines, the service was in keeping with the unique circumstances while enabling them to celebrate their wedding with their closest family.”
Previously, the palace had announced: “The small ceremony was attended by The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh and close family. The wedding took place in accordance with all relevant Government Guidelines.”
Additionally, a source close to the couple confirmed to Town & Country that fewer than 20 people had been invited to the service.
What’s your guess? Mine is that Will and Kate didn’t attend. They’ve never been particularly close to the Yorks in general, and I can’t see Will and Kate traveling from Norfolk to Windsor just for a socially-distanced wedding. I would imagine that Beatrice and Edo kept it to their parents, the Queen and Philip, Edo’s son Wolfie and… that’s probably it? I would love to know if Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank were even there – probably, I would guess, because they’ve been staying in Windsor during lockdown.
Also, if Kate had attended, I wonder if she would have worn white again??
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It says siblings, so Eugenie probably was there.
I don’t know if Kate and Bea get along that well, so no, my guess is that they didn’t attend.
Ever before there was Kate vs Meghan there was Kate vs The York sisters. Kate has apparently always been very condescending to The York sisters (a pattern emerging maybe? 🤫). There are rumors of many shouting matches happening between them to the point they do not talk at all and avoid each other like the plague.
There is a video of Eugenie deliberately bumping into Kate whilst walking down the stares on one of their Christmas engagements together, then smirking and away whilst Kate stares at her.
Despite the fake happy family act they try and put on to try and affront Harry and Meghan, none of the family groups (the Yorks, the Cambridges, the Wessex’s etc) get along.
You know it’s bad when someone wears a blush vageen hat to your wedding!
Beatrice sent the invite, but with a note: ” White is solely for the bride.”, so Kate threw a fit and decided to zoom herself into an early grave.
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That’s brilliant!!
I didn’t think it was weird that they didn’t attend the ceremony, if it was such a small guest list and they are currently in Norfolk.
But if more people were at the reception, then I do think its kind of odd if they didn’t attend, but maybe they just didn’t want to travel from Norfolk for it?
They posted congrats in an insta story a few days later. I think William attended something that day and posted about that instead.
I did not miss Thankfully Bea did not have to deal with Kate’s demands about whether child bride attendants should wear tights or socks.
Notice how William didn’t get attacked for stepping on his cousin’s wedding news and news cycle.
@Notasugarhere … And notice that Princess Bea wasn’t attached and labeled an ‘attention seeking hag’ for getting married on Duchess Camilia’s birthday, either.
The trashers are still talking about how Meghan “spoiled” Eugenie’s wedding announcing her pregnancy. Ridiculous.
Does Sarah still have parents, or are the Windsor’s Bea’s only grandparents? I don’t think I’ve ever heard Fergie’s parents mentioned or pictured.
Both of Sarah’s parents died a long time ago. If memory serves me correctly, her mother was in a horribly tragic accident.
Her mother died in a car crash in Argentina aged 61 – just one year and a month after Princess Diana (Sept ’98). Her father died in 2004.
Fervor was also close to her stepfather who also died young. She had a stepmother and two half siblings (who were in her wedding I think) but we never hear about them.
Fergie has a full sister Jane. And three half siblings through her father’s second marriage: Andrew, Alice, and Eliza.
The white clothes thing is not a big deal in the UK. and that’s a yellow dress.
I’m in the UK and I disagree – wearing white to someone else’s formal wedding is indeed a big deal.
As for the dress, Kate is one of the most photographed women in the world. She knows better than to wear something that might *show up* as white in photographs. The only explanation is that she chose a dress where she could do wide eyed, ‘oh no, it’s really yellow’ when called out on wearing white on purpose.
A deliberately so pale it appears white outfit, made special for the wedding. Oprah had her entire outfit remade overnight because it appeared too close to white fabric for comfort.
Kate always has this strange need to stick out at other people’s weddings. Near-white for Meghan’s, bright pink and unweighted for Eugenie’s, red stretch lace for another one, sheer black top for Peter’s.
Except for Pippa’s wedding. Kate was very appropriately dressed for that event… which just makes me kind of side-eye her other dress choices all the harder.
I thought her outfit for Pippa’s wedding was awful. A bad mix of the Duchess of Windsor’s wedding gown, pointless side flaps/peplums, with some 1970s Ossie Clark sleeves thrown in. Poorly made too, without lining or interfacing, so we could see the seam allowance and puckers in the thin fabric.
Oh, I didn’t mean it was particularly attractive actually. Just that it was a very appropriate choice because it didn’t upstage the bride.
It’s admittedly an unfair standard that Kate should take extra effort than any other guest to not upstage the bride. There are always plenty of other guests with more eye-catching ensembles than Kate at any given wedding. However, it’s also the truth that she will always be the second, sometimes even most, photographed woman at any wedding. It would be nice, though not required, if she took that into account more.
My comment was to point out that she seemed to go that extra step for her own sister‘s wedding, but not for most of the other high profile ones that you mentioned. It makes me question if it was a fluke or a very conscious and considerate choice that she doesn’t normally make for others.
Her outfit color at Eugenie’s wedding was so blatant and was what made me accept that her outfit color at Meghan’s wedding really was done purposely. The color scheme for Eugenie’s wedding had to have been announced to the family because practically everyone else wore shades of blue and green. Then here comes Kate in that bright cranberry outfit. SMH.
Kate’s dress for Pippa’s wedding did not fit her right around the bustline, it was also retro 40s and looked drab.
Exactly.
Kate’s coat seems to be banana-beige (‘banana’ being an official colour name), with a white or off-white dress/skirt underneath. It is well visible in the photos where she is standing in the shadow.
As for wedding guests wearing shades of white, from my experience it is no big deal anywhere in Europe. In fact, off-white seemed to be quite popular, especially for the mother of the bride, the last time I looked (about a decade ago).
In England/Britain, there is – or was – a superstitious informal interdict against wedding guests wearing GREEN, but I wonder whether anyone abides by it anymore.
What did green do?
Well both Beatrice and Kitty Spencer were wearing Green to Meghan’s wedding.
Green is supposed to be unlucky. I have no idea where that comes from but it’s something my great grandmother used to say – of any green dress, not just ones worn to weddings. I have’t heard anyone less than 80 say that though for a very long time…
Green dye during the Victorian age was poisonous. I think it was an arsenic based salt, it leached out of the fabric and made people sick.
Oh lordy, are we doing this again?
Last time we had this discussion, several British posters said that yes, wearing white in Britain to a wedding was a faux pas.
The flowers in her hat are yellow, and you can see how they are a different shade from her dress.
If the dress is not white or cream, then it is so close to it that Kate should have known better and chosen something else. We have never seen her wear something in that shade to another wedding, not even her sister’s, so it was definitely a passive aggressive move.
It was a cream/off white with a yellow undertone, which makes it all the more passive aggressive. She can play ignorant with ‘but I thought it was yellow’ but it’s close enough to white where she gets to make her point, that she doesn’t give AF.
I don’t think that it mattered whether or not wearing white is a big deal in the UK, because this wedding was screened live all over the world and in America especially people would be able to see that she was making a cheap shot at Meghan.
It was close enough to White that people spent and are still spending time discussing it instead of the bride. That is why it is bad form on her part. If she wore something that was actually primrose yellow- then nobody would have been talking about her
Did she smile at that wedding at all? She seems to look miserable in all the photos, especially the formal one. Quite the opposite of the massive grins she manages to pull off for photos at her few engagements.
@ February-Pisces, she was clearly wearing a winter white. She is one of the most vile, vindictive and passive aggressive people in The Firm. She must be miserable to associate with as she must always be the center of attention and must dictate Limp Wil’s behaviour and actions. She loves to keep Limp Wil on a leash! I wonder how long this marriage will last?
That was my thought. It’s a very very pale yellow but looks white or cream. And obviously photographs that way. But she can have ‘plausible deniability’ by saying ‘of course it’s not white’ while still getting a passive aggressive message across.
Yes to ‘plausible deniability’ which seems to be Kate’s thing. Like wearing a light weight floaty dress on a windy day with out sewing weights in the hem. It’s not her fault when her skirt blows up, it’s the ‘winds fault’.
She definitely seemed ‘off’ during the wedding, I think it’s because she always dreamed of going to harry wedding wearing a white wedding dress herself, lol.
Oh God this again 🙄
Nothing else going on, we might as well chew the cud on this yet again.
lol it’s not like we have anything better to do, at least I don’t. I’m in California and it’s almost totally shut down again where I am.
The dress is so light it’s near enough to white that it may as well be white.
She knew full well what she was doing and how it would seem.
LOL Kaiser should just resurrect this story once every few months. WHITE OR YELLOW???? Cue 300 comments arguing about it, lol.
Its clear they didnt or they would’ve used it to brag about how close they are to Beatrice vs harry not going..etc
The fact that they didnt even bother to post congratulations shows how there’s division & bitterness. Plus they probably want to distance themselves from pedo Andy
I’d guess they were unsocially distancing from Randy Uncle Andy more than dissing the happy couple.
The Daily Mail said that The Queen and Prince Philip were the only royals at the wedding besides Eugenie and Beatrice’s parents. The page boys were Edoardo’s son and his two nephews so no, the Cambridges weren’t at the wedding.
Oh, and William posted on IG in the same moment when the wedding portraits were released so probably he and Kate were pissed LOL
Wouldn’t Eugenie count as a “royal”? That makes it sound like she wasn’t there.
The Cambridge’s would have only attended it they could be photographed there. Their whole life is a photo op, and if Bea and the queen decided to limit the pics of the whole family as a way to avoid Andrew mess, then there’s no way they would bother to show up. Even fergie and Eugenie haven’t been included in the pics. I wouldn’t be surprised though if they put out a rumour that they were there and that kate was one of Bea’s trusty bridesmaids and how she helped the bride organised the whole thing and is now giving bea marriage tips on being the perfect wife.
They do not get along at all, and for exactly that reason, Kate always trying to boss them around and tell them what to do condescendingly getting told to sit down and get lost then going to cry out her lilly white tears often to William. The York sisters are notorious for not liking Kate and avoiding her at all costs
It’s clear to me that William and Kate weren’t invited at the wedding. They were so pissed that they did a IG post in the same time that the wedding portraits were released. They are really the worst.
Did anyone complain about how their Instagram post was upstaging Beatrices pics, or is it only when it’s Meghan that posts something?
Yeah that was petty especially after it was WW3 whenever Sussex Royal dared post anything while the others were out and about. Luckily William didn’t seem to completely squash her news cycle.
I don’t think they attended and I don’t think it’s a big deal but I side eyed William posting about an engagement at the same time as her wedding announcement. People say Kate doesn’t get along with the York sisters anyways so it’s probably for the best that they weren’t there.
Neither Beatrice nor Eugenie were kind to Kate or Pippa during the Cambridges long courtship.
I heard this is because Kate was rude to Beatrice and bullied her. If you bully my sister I’m not going to be kind to you or your sister either.
Kate and Pippa are both several years older than Beatrice and Eugenie so they are the ones who were bullying. There is almost a 7 year difference between Kate and Beatrice so pretending that Beatrice could bully Kate in her mid 20s when she is a teen is ridiculous.
Kate has form in being bitchy towards Beatrice (fancy dress disco…). Making up for being a commoner by trying to put an actual blood princess “in her place”? Maybe.
I actually think Bea “wins” in this game. A nice quiet “surprise” wedding with understated hair and makeup, instead of throwing an obscene amount of taxpayer money at a giant wedding, to which the blushing (very blushing) bride wore caked-on makeup and eyeliner? Married to someone who loves her vs someone who treats her like a doormat? Will forever be known by the public as “Princess Beatrice” vs Waity/Keen/Kate Middleton/Wrinkleton/other unflattering nicknames invented to suit a horrid personality?
I don’t like the royals but, well, I’m getting fond of the York girls, who seem to have careers and lives of their own. Factoring out disgusting Andrew, Bea is in a more secure position both in the U.K. public mind, and in her wedding/life.
vice versa, Anance. Kate is the known bully to much younger Beatrice and Eugenie. And Kate and Pippa openly meangirled Mirka Federer one year at Wimbledon. Middleton women are catty to all other women; they’re even in competition with each other.
And yet during all the years before Kate arrived on the scene, you never heard anything about the York sisters being mean or nasty to anyone. And even after Kate arrived, you still never heard stories about them being nasty or mean to anyone else. So what does that say?
Pre-Meghan, I remember stories about how kate was so glamorous in comparison the the york sisters who were always made to look like Cinderella’s ugly sisters, and how they were jealous of Kate’s beauty. You can’t deny that those comparisons come from camp Middleton.
The York’s both rolled their eyes during H&M’s wedding if I recall correctly. So I have no use for them and don’t care about their weddings.
Does Katie keen get along with anyone?
I’ve wondered this. Given that all “her” friends are either William’s or married to William’s friends (with the possible exception of Alice Avenal, who is apparently friend to both Middleton sisters – read: she’s probably Pippa’s friend)… Coupled with all the mean girl stories and rumous… I don’t think she’s nice to anyone at all.
Right? She seems to have issues with other women specifically, judging by all of the stories over the past two decades. It’s obvious that she’s the problem when it comes to the disputes she has with others. The only exception I’d make is Rose, because who would be happy that their supposedly good friend is messing around with their husband?
Kate is not a nice woman. Chelsy, cressida, camilla, meghan, sarah, eugenie, beatrice and sophie. ALL royal women she has not got along with (well Sophie untill they became racist chums together, but i doubt it will last long). I belive she is very much her mothers child.
She does not view other women potential friends, mates or companions, but competition to be outsmarted beat down.
Kate values herself in her attractiveness to men and she hates any woman who is competition. She especially hated Meghan because although Meghan was five months older, she looked younger, was smarter, better at Kate’s job than Kate ever was and she married a man who actually respects her and isn’t afraid to show affection for her in public. Kate better enjoy those ribbons and tiaras because she has a long empty life ahead of her doing things she hates.
And while she mostly kept it on the downlow, her bitchface to Meghan and Harry at the Commonwealth service showed the world just how petty and pathetic she is.
I don’t think Kate would have gotten along with Diana because DIana would have seen through Kate right away.
Kate is the sort of woman who wants all the male attention on her. The only way she can achieve that is if she’s the only woman in the room. Sad.
The wedding was pretty secretive, so i’m guessing Wilileaks & Keen weren’t in attendance.
Eugenie was Beatrice’s bridesmaid so she was there. The Daily Mail wrote an article about who were at the wedding: the Queen, Prince Philip, Eugenie and her husband, Andrew and Fergie. There weren’t other members of the Royal Family.
I think the line of succession must be preserved at all costs. I’d be really surprised if QE, PoW, and Normal Bill are in the same at the same time until there’s a cure. The pandemic equivalent of them all taking separate planes.
There are 3000+ people in the known line of succession to the throne. No worries about having monarch, heir, heir to heir in the same room. What with William’s crass jokes about COVID-19, he may privately be an idiot who thinks it is a hoax or greatly exaggerated.
i don’t doubt it. I am sure him and fellow wannabe genocider Phillip have shared a few sentiments about depopulation together.
Probably too many roses around for Kate’s liking….
Hah I see what you did there!
Honestly I wonder if wills social media person even knew that Beatrice had gotten married. Not like Will posts that stuff himself.
Town and country at one point had a article titled-why didn’t Megan and harry attend? 🙄
Because no one outside of immediate family did, there they go trying to start drama again.
It has to remembered that the rumor, accepted as truth, is that Harry has always been close to both Beatrice & Eugenie.
Town and Country cares too much about the USA market. Throwing a tonne of shade at the Sussexes is not in the magazines best interest.
I believe that he is, or once was, because why else would Fergie be invited to his wedding?
He used to go on skiing vacations with the girls and they have/had a lot of the same social circle. And invited fergie to his wedding. I think they were very close. Plus Harry is a kind soul who seemed to get along with everyone.
Also, Beatrice seemed to make an effort via her SM to be supportive of Harry and Meghan. Since it seems to be tradition to have at least one royal relative as a godparent, I would not be surprised if Eugenie is that for Archie.
Meghan and Harry couldn’t have attended if they wanted. No US entry into Europe. We’re too stupid to be allowed in other countries. Because we’re great again.
Once they got to the UK Meghan and Harry would have had to be quarantined for 14 days given especially that they came from a COVID “hot spot” in Los Angeles
We really are. 😞
I loved Beas dress! Congrats to them . I hope they’ll be happy.
It’s understandable. You’re only allowed so many guests in any gathering now, plus others including the officiator, any helping staff etc. I doubt it was any personal slight at all. If I were to get married during this pandemic and allowed 18 guests from both families, I’d want only my nearest and dearest immediate family
Since Kate has been awful towards the York sisters in the past, I highly doubt they went.
William’s lame attempt to overshadow Bea’s release of her wedding photos was hysterical. Considering he bought so many bot followers you would think he had more likes and comments on his post. Hardly anyone knows of his announcement.
I just had a look at their Instagram and they still have 11+ million followers, the same that harry and Meghan had. Since Sussex royal stopped posting, it looks like the Keenbridges stopped buying followers. Its funny considering people were following them in their millions before.
If they attended it probably would be known. The thing is the media is making a big deal about Meghan and Harry not going. Why they are more significant than William and Kate is baffling and funny.
Right! Who cares if Meghan and Harry didn’t go, theyre like 5000 miles away, its a way to deflect the real embarrassment that no one wanted attention seeking Kate at the wedding, lol.
It would be a bigger story if we weren’t in the midst of a global pandemic. Honestly the ten hour flight from LA to London isn’t a big deal if time and money are no object. I’ve done it on short notice, and time/money are huge considerations for me. I actually think Harry would have wanted to be there, but *global pandemic*. Like, family drama should be the least of anyone’s concerns right now.
They weren’t invited and probably dont want to call attention to that to save embarassment. Haha. The coronovirus gave Beatrice the perfect excuse, she seems more anti-celebirty, and anti-attention unlike the likes of Kate.
Probably not at the ceremony, but the kids and Kate could have beenat the reception lunch, why rent a bouncy house for one kid though, though I thought that was a nice touch want the stepson to have fun. Either. way don’t think it s a big deal if they were not there.
His five-year-old niece and three-year-old nephew were also there and part of the wedding. I’d definitely rent a bouncy house for three young children.
Poor Bea missed the opportunity to make Kate cry over something pathetically stupid. That’s the new royal wedding tradition, isn’t it?
I think Bea and her sister already made Kate cry at her own wedding. Google “Beatrice and Eugenie Cambridge wedding hats”. I personally thought Beatrice’s hat was hilarious and the look on her face says so did she.
Excellent point. It hadn’t occurred to me that the Yorks’ ridiculous hats were meant to steal Kate’s show and reveal their disdain for her, but now that you mention it…I kind of love it.
I read some gossip somewhere that those hats were meant to be an offense, and that’s why they were so toned down at Harry’s wedding. I don’t know if it was personal against Will and Kate or if it was because they didn’t invite Fergie and Harry did.
Those hats were absolutely designed to take attention away from Kate, and that is exactly what happened. Pippa and her non existent bum and Beatrice with her ridiculous hat, totally stole the headlines. The bride was simply forgettable.
To be as blunt as I think the monarch truly is, I don’t think they’d want to risk the exposure of 3 future kings just for Princess Whatsherfaces wedding anyway.
So the 20 people thing was probably a good excuse in William, Charles, & George’s cases. None probably wanted to go anyways.
I find this reason so strange tbh, if they truly cared about infecting the future monarchs, said future monarchs would be donning masks at their engagements. The wedding supposedly practiced all the social distancing guidelines so if they were truly invited they could go. It seems like the wedding was for just immediate close family, so not really surprised the Cambridges weren’t present.
Since when aren’t cousins who live in the same city considered immediate family? I’m not especially close to my cousins (all of whom live in different time zones), but I’m very close to all of my aunts who are close to their children, so when possible I go to family events involving my cousins.
@bettyrose Since they have been prancing around pretending that they are!
Bettyrose, I thought the term “immediate family” referred to your parents and your siblings before you’re married and/or have kids, and then your “immediate family” either includes or exclusively becomes your spouse and children. Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great grandparents, nieces, nephews, etc are one’s “extended family.” At least that’s how I understand those terms.
As I wrote above, 3000+ people in the known line of succession. And since William has made multiple crass comments about COVID-19, he probably thinks it isn’t real or isn’t dangerous.
If William and dem really cared about exposure to the virus, they wouldn’t be waltzing about with no masks on. And I don’t care that the British government hasn’t mandated it. Common sense and science have to start ruling the day at some point.
Top CEO’s don’t have time to go to weddings.
LOL!!
You get to 20 people pretty fast with just Bea’s immediate family and Edo’s, he’s got a couple of siblings. Add in the 3 children who participated and the two celebrants and there you are.
Poor Kate will just have to wear white when Charlotte gets married.
I’m sure the Cambridges didn’t go. Also, even if they’d wanted to, the Sussexes couldn’t have gone either. Meghan is not a UK citizen and so would have to quarantine upon arrival in the UK. They would have had to travel weeks ago and stay. I would not do that in their shoes either.
Beatrice and Eugenie, to me, come across as nice girls. I wish both of them happiness.