I’m surprised by just how much attention Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have gotten this year. It’s arguably all negative attention, and the root of all of it has to be their parents’ connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. It feels like it’s been open season on Beatrice and Eugenie all year. There are tabloid attacks on their marriages, a huge backlash to their rentfree London homes, public debates about whether they should be welcomed at family events and on and on. The Mail recently claimed that Prince Andrew is coaching his daughters too, and that he’s arguing that they should not slink away or disappear. So everything seems like it’s a holding pattern right now. Well, that just means there’s an opening to once again point out that Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’s marriage looks like it’s really struggling.

Princess Beatrice’s marriage to property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is being tested amid tensions over her disgraced father, ex-Prince Andrew, according to author Paula Froelich.

Whispers of trouble in paradise have grown louder as Mapelli Mozzi, 42, has spent long stretches of time jetting around the globe without Beatrice, 37, visiting Los Angeles and Palm Beach on a three-week business trip in January, and posting pictures from a luxury island resort off the Miami coast in March. Beatrice stayed behind in the United Kingdom with the couple’s two young children, Sienna, 4, and Athena, 1.

Earlier this month, Piers Morgan posted photos showing Mapelli Mozzi at Le Club 55, the exclusive St. Tropez beach club known for its lavish daytime parties. The Daily Mail later reported that Beatrice had joined her husband on the French Riviera getaway but had fallen ill and stayed in bed while he went out to party.

“She called him her rock, but here’s the problem. If you’ve got a rock, you would think that the rock would stick around in stormy weather,” Froelich said on The Royalist Podcast. “He’s been in and out and in and out all year, you know, going back and forth to the States. And then they took a lovely, fun, romantic trip to Saint Tropez at the invite of their friend Gabriela Peacock. And she got sick. So what did her rock do? Well, he left her in bed and went out and partied.”

Mapelli Mozzi, who wed Beatrice in 2020, told the Mail that his extensive solo travels were driven by business commitments.“As you well know, it is completely normal for a business owner to travel for work. It happens in every industry,” he said.

Froelich suggested that Mapelli Mozzi is trying to distance Beatrice from her father, fearing that his father-in-law’s scandals could harm his business ventures.

“I think Edo is kind of looking at Beatrice and saying, ‘No, do not have contact with your father. Don’t go around him,’” she told host Tom Sykes. “I think it’s much more to do with his own business… which has, of course, taken off since he left his ex, Dara Wang, and immediately hooked up with Beatrice.”

Froelich continued, “So of course he’s saying, ‘Don’t go there, don’t go near your father, he’s toxic, and my business will fail.’ But then again, at the same time… what did they need the money for? They’re living for free off of lovely Uncle Charlie.”

[From The Daily Beast]

Do I think Beatrice’s marriage is in terrible shape? Yes. Do I think Edo is a sleaze? Yes. Do I think that Beatrice and Eugenie are being blamed for their parents’ mess? Also yes. All those things are true at once. And Edo isn’t wrong for encouraging Beatrice to cut off Andrew, btw. Edo can be the worst husband ever and he’s still right about that one thing. Beatrice has always been entirely too involved with her parents’ schemes and catastrophes. I wish Bea and Edo would just move out of the country and start over somewhere else.

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