Given how frequently and incorrectly the British media pocket-watches the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it’s interesting that the same energy is rarely directed at various royals and royal-adjacents. I would be quite interested in a tabloid audit of Zara and Mike Tindall, for instance, not to mention Peter Phillips and his weird income streams. Well, the Mail’s Charlotte Griffiths decided to write about what kind of money Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice’s husbands actually have. What’s so funny about this is… the Mail has NEVER been able to keep their own stories straight about Jack Brooksbank and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.

This week Editor-at-Large Charlotte Griffiths answers a reader question about Beatrice and Eugenie’s finances: I am assuming their parents can no longer afford to contribute toward their upkeep. And should their employers let them go, they will be relying solely on their husbands. How rich are Edo and Jack?

Grifftihs: Edo isn’t actually rich or aristocratic. People think he is because technically he’s a count, but when he first met Beatrice he was quite broke. His fiancée at the time, Dara Huang, had all the cash flow from her work as an architect for luxury hotels. Edo’s mother was married to a wealthy Tory MP Christopher Shale, Edo’s stepfather, who sadly died at Glastonbury Festival. But she isn’t hugely wealthy and lives in Shropshire in a nice but simple house. As for his Italian family, they barely know him and he has no claim to the crumbling family palazzo.

Still, Edo is a proud man and he has expensive taste. He loves finely made leather, he buys Gucci loafers and Hermes handbags for Bea, and he has a big mortgage on their £3million Oxfordshire country house. He is dead set on making his interiors company Banda a success and I’m sure he’s keen to distance his work from the messy business of his father-in-law Andrew.

Meanwhile, Jack is not wealthy at all. He was a barman for years, then a restaurant manager and eventually worked for George Clooney’s tequila brand as a rep. But he struggled to manage with the booze culture that inevitably comes with working to promote an alcohol brand and so I imagine he’s much happier now working for a golf resort villa company in Portugal. I have no doubt that the connections he’s made through building a life with Eugenie have helped him in his career, but he is widely known as a good guy who is deserving of the opportunities he comes across.

[From The Daily Mail]

The Edo stuff is wild, as I said, because the Mail was one of the biggest cheerleaders for Edo and they spent years fluffing up his (meager) accomplishments and his sketchy background. They’ve only become Edo-skeptics THIS year. All of that makes me question what they’re saying about Jack too – I don’t actually believe he’s broke anymore. I think he was quite successful when he worked for Casamigos, and I think Edo’s job in Portugal is lucrative. Plus, I believe Jack still has a side-business in liquor distribution, which is ironically Camilla Parker-Bowles’ family background.

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