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Princess Beatrice is pregnant with her first child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace announced on Wednesday.
“The Queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the news,” the Palace said in a statement.
Beatrice, 32, married Mapelli Mozzi, 37, on 17 July 2020, in a private ceremony at the Royal Chapel of All Saints on the grounds of the Royal Lodge in Windsor Castle.
The original couple was plan married in the Royal Chapel of St. James on May 29 of last year, but was forced to cancel as a result of Coronavirus Disease.
Their wedding in July was conducted in accordance with the UK government’s COVID-19 regulations and was attended by a small group of family and friends, including the bride’s grandparents, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip .
Beatrice is the eldest daughter of the Queen’s son, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York (aka Sarah Ferguson or “Fergie”).
Beatrice, now 10th in line ascended to the British throne, has a full-time job of Vice president partnership and strategy at Afiniti, an artificial intelligence software company.
Mapelli Mozzi, nicknamed “Edo,” is a millionaire real estate developer. He is also technically himself a royal because he is a Number of Italians, a member of the now deposed Italian royal family, House of Savoy.
He has one child with his ex-partner, American architect Dara Huang, a son named Christopher, nicknamed “Wolfie”, was born in 2016.
The child of Beatrice and Mapelli Mozzi is expected to be born “in the fall of this year”, according to a Palace statement. The child will be the 11th in line to the throne.
Beatrice’s sister Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank recently welcomed their own child: a baby boy named August Philip Hawke.
