When Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi announced their engagement last September, the British tabloids did not do much with Edo’s backstory. Edoardo had been engaged to Dara Huang, she got pregnant and had their son Christopher, and then Edo dumped Dara very suddenly. Just months later, he and Princess Beatrice started dating. It felt like the backstory should have been a bigger deal, but you also have to remember that at the moment of the engagement announcement, the Duchess of Sussex was existing, and therefore she had to be harassed, criticized and smeared every minute of every day, so the British peeps didn’t have time to do their due diligence on Edo. They still haven’t. But everybody is just going along with this narrative that Edo and Bea are perfect for each other, and isn’t it sweet that Beatrice is such a good stepmummy to Christopher already! She’s even going to let the child be in her wedding:
Bride-to-be Princess Beatrice’s wedding party will include a very special pageboy — her future stepson! A source tells PEOPLE that the young son of Beatrice’s fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will be in their upcoming royal wedding on May 29. Mozzi shares his son, who was born in 2016, with his former girlfriend Dara Huang, an architect and designer.
“He is very much part of their life,” Beatrice’s friend previously told PEOPLE. “Beatrice has embraced the child as part of her life from the outset.”
The princess, who is ninth in line to the throne, hopes to have her own children too, her friend added. The friend added: “Edo is easily one of the best dads, he is so involved, and Beatrice is already showing that she’s a fantastic step-mummy. They’ve been on family vacations together [with his son]. They are really happy.”
To me, this whole arrangement is more gossip-worthy than Meghan’s backstory. Meghan had a fairly common starter marriage and no children. Edo had a whole-ass child with a fiancee and he broke off the engagement very suddenly, and now this child is being brought into the royal fold. I feel for Dara, but I also get the feeling that Christopher spends most of his time with her, and Edo only does the dutiful-dad thing every so often. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that Beatrice doesn’t LeAnn Rimes this situation.
Also, this was just announced today: Beatrice and Edo finally have a locale for their wedding ceremony. They will be married in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace, which is where many royal babies (including George and Louis) have been baptized or christened. I think that The Chapel Royal is on the smaller side, which would back up the idea that Beatrice’s wedding isn’t going to be some huge affair. I bet the Buckingham Palace reception will be pretty big though.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Notice they described Dara as his former girlfriend rather than his ex-fiancé?
Chapel royal only fits about 40 people so yea it’s going to be a VERY small wedding.
I just looked and it seems you’re right (I didn’t realize it was that small a chapel.) That seems like it would barely hold the royal family once you factor in first and second cousins.
It is tiny, but where Victoria and Albert were married. Fergie will play that up for all it is worth. There is public access to the sidewalk outside the gates. Press and anti-Andrew protesters will be jockeying for position.
Actually this chapel has a capacity for around 150 guests. So not quite as small as you suggest but definitely much smaller than other venues used for previous royal weddings.
I wonder if the Cambridge kids will be in the wedding party. I’d love to see Louis in it. But honestly, with that pedo as father of the bride, I wouldn’t trust him with any kids around him.
Maybe this guy isn’t as bad as I think he might be. I hope for Bea he isn’t but getting together with someone while you are engaged and having a baby with someone else is a big red flag.
I agree. He dropped his fiancée like a hot potato and she was completely blindsided. I don’t think Edo will make a good husband. You don’t dump your fiancée without telling her in person first. I personally think he’s a scumbag, but that’s just my take. Is she that desperate to marry that she will take him with all of these red flags?
I just looked up Dara Huang and she’s absolutely stunning. What an interesting choice Edoardo made.
Money and status talk. Just sayin’.
yes agree. his ex fiance is not only stunning and seems very brillant too. i cant believe anyone leave her for beatrice. there is little offensive joke for rich woman in my culture. the joke is “if there is no money or status , even dog wont bother them in the street”. i think this very much apply for yorks and pippa middleton. (p.s i know this is offensive joke, but this is centuries old tale and really have truth to what it say. im sorry if anyone is offend by this joke. )
@aria – I get what you are saying and find the joke funny. However, I really think we need to leave Pippa out of this as she is private individual married to a non-titled commoner who happens to be moderately wealthy and to some degree self-made.
I am sure Cathy Cambridge envies her little sister from time to time.
She’s gorgeous and better off without him.
I looked up the Chapel Royal and their website says Queen Victoria was married there. That’s pretty interesting when you consider that people think Beatrice resembles her. (I think it’s the eyes.)
Harry & Meghan will not be invited. There’s no room, you see.
And yet they’ll squeeze Andrew it. Go figure.
Andrew can handle the close quarters, given that he can’t sweat and all.
I’m sure they will both be there.
Harry is close to the York sisters.
I can’t imagine the york parents would be too happy to have H&M attend with them just coming off the Invictus games earlier in the month and this being their (probable) return to the UK. That would be a huge attention stealer. Not having that!
they are not attending is also huge tabolid stories like how rf dumped and isnulted sussex and they are not invited. anyways beatrice thunder will be stolen whether are not sussex present or absent.
The Sussexes will be harassed by the British Tabloid Media whether they are present or absent. The choice should be what Beatrice wants and probably will be.
I am willing to bet what Normal Bill wants is for Harry to attend but leave Meghan in North America. That will happen on a cold day in hell.
I’m actually surprised the speculation is not stronger yet as to whether H&M will attend, in the press I mean. That’s a pretty interesting scenerio. I can see Bea wanting them nowhere near her wedding as THAT would be the story, not her and Edo. And then once again H&M can be blamed for stealing the thunder of one of the blood princesses.
If anything, I really want either Harry to go WITH Meghan or not at all. I think if he were to go alone, I would be pretty disappointed.
I don’t think Meghan’s or Edo’s backstories are particularly interesting. Edo and Dara were dating, got pregnant, attempted to keep the relationship going for the kid and it didn’t work out. Happens all the time. It’s only interesting because he ended up meeting and getting engaged to a British royal. If not for Bea, this wouldn’t even be a story.
St James’ Chapel is small, but intimate. Bea will truly have a private wedding, away from the harsh glare of the paps, who’ve sneered and jeered this woman’s every misstep. I hope she’s happy and the weather is beautiful for the garden reception.
no edo and dara was very much in that relationship. during eugiene wedding, edo(longtime friend to yorks) saw the press and carriage during the wedding. he thought he might get the same if he marries beatrice and press is good for his company and business. So he dumped his fiance who was completely blindsided and kicked her out of apt and his fiance and baby crashed at friends sofa until she finds her place in city. Too bad in the end he didnt get the carriage ride and his father inlaw is forever pedophile. dara father is ex nasa scientist. I love when kate stans point out that meghan dump her chef boyfreind according to them but they seems to have memory loss when kate meet william she was also very much with her boyfriend and dumped him for william. meghan does that its unroyal but kate and edo does its royal.
Cory and his mother both confirm they were broken up. Cory’s mother is from Brantford and she apparently says wonderful things about Meghan. Meghan was not in a messy situation like Edo, but from the way the tabloids read you would swear it’s the opposite.
Edo has primary custody of the baby. He never kicked her out. They split, but both stayed in the apartment for the baby. When she found out that he was moving on with Beatrice, she moved out without the baby.
Agreed on all counts. But I think what ultimately made Meghan’s backstory frontpage news was that several people in her past (i.e. family, former friends) shared so much.
In comparison, I think Dara’s mother in the states gave a slightly weird interview that seemed to show she was not very involved with her daughter/at least not aware of her relationship status. Additionally, Dara was quick to show support for Edo and Bea.
dara have to support or palace might pyshically harm her or her son. remeber when they threanted abc news over andrew. im sure they might do this for beatrice because in the end of the day she is favoirte to queen because of andy.
aria, that’s a lot of speculation to jump to the palace having them PHYSICALLY harmed.
And S is right. There was absolutely weirdness from the mother. It seems like they purposely were keeping her in the dark, and it seems like there was very little relationship between the two. It seemed like the mother was caught off guard but by a lot of other account the relationship was over, but they were still living together at least part of the time for their son.
@aria, that’s ridiculous. Why would they harm Dara and her son? For Beatrice? Silly, unfounded speculation.
Yes, Erinn, from all the accounts I read, there was no relationship between the two other than co-parenting their child. And as we’ve seen with the Markles, scandal sells, so why not make this situation more salacious by having some overlap in Edo’s relationships.
I thought part of the official fairy tale is that Edo and Beatrice have known each other for years?
His family and the Yorks have known each other for ages. Edo certainly knows what a pompous fool Andrew is, and what a grifter Fergie is. And yet, he agrees to marry into that. But why? My guess is LIKE HANGS AROUND WITH LIKE. So let’s assume his parents might be cut out of the same moral fabric. Good people don’t hang around with sh***y people for years and years. They just don’t.
Agreed, tired of ppl putting her down for living her life as best she can.
I hope for their sakes that this is real and they’re happy. But I always get the creeps seeing them together and can’t help but think that this is a disaster in the making.
Is she the spitting image of Queen Victoria? Those genes are strong.
Doubly strong thanks to inbreeding.
Maybe she’ll follow Victoria’s example and have nine kids!
so in the UK racism and yt feminism reigns i see….. as long as the perps are white they story is NEVER as bad Meghan….
i CANNOT today.
I don’t think Dara will let Bea or Edo go LeeAnn on the situation. She looks like she could cut a btch.
I see them going the opposite way and erasing Christopher from the narrative as so soon as they get married and Bea has her first child. Don’t expect to see him standing on any balconies.
yes agree and many of bea friend said that beatrice wants to get preganat as soon as posible to beat eugiene in that area. i dont know if its true or not. i highly doubt dara will leave her son anywhere andrew and york family without her physically being there. she looks her those corporate boss who wont take shit.
I doubt it. Edo has primary custody of the kid.
I bet he gives that up once Bea’s pregnant. At least Dara has enough time to prepare for it and get a nanny or some other childcare situation in place.
He’s a dirtbag cheater and Beatrice is a homewrecker. That is all.
The proof of that is ?
Not being Meghan
What in all of 80’s Slytherin foil Hell is she wearing?!
She has THE WORST taste in clothes. I think she inherited that from her mother.
Small chapel to spare the embarrassment of not a big guest list. I bet there are some people that the couple know don’t want to be caught in the shot with the father of the bride. Also the BRF doesn’t want people outside the church chanting Lock Him (Andrew) Up outside the church. Bea is going to be pushed to invite Harry and Meghan or she will be dragged for days. The queen wants a family reunion shot because she is tired of the headlines.
Better yet, lock Andrew up in the tower!
I could go for that!
of course she will include him in the wedding??? It would be news if she excluded him. and I would suggest that they are including him … his wedding too
Not strange that Bea would include his child and I do hope she will be a good stepmother.
Agree. This dress looks like it was made from seaweed fresh from the Sargasso Sea. Poor girl is awful dresser and never looks elegant. Eugenie is a bit better, but for all the money and access they could do so much better.