I keep saying this because it’s true: I feel sorry for Princess Beatrice. I feel like Beatrice’s wedding isn’t going to be her “dream wedding” or even close to it. In 2018, Prince Harry married Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle and it was big and fancy. Then several months later, Princess Eugenie also married at Windsor, and it was also big and fancy and expensive. Beatrice is expected to marry at Windsor as well, only her sister and her cousin used up all the fanciness and money. Now Beatrice is expected to have a less expensive and much smaller wedding. I don’t think it’s her choice – she’s being forced to streamline and be lowkey. Perhaps in a bid to take control of the narrative, it was announced last week that Beatrice’s wedding will be “funded privately.”
When Princess Eugenie tied the knot with Jack Brooksbank in October 2018, the day cost the British taxpayer around £2million but according to reports, things are set to change at Princess Beatrice’s nuptials. The British public are reportedly not footing the bill for the upcoming wedding – a major break from royal tradition.
According to the Daily Express, Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’s wedding will be funded privately, a palace spokesperson confirmed to the newspaper. British taxpayer’s money is traditionally used at royal weddings to help towards security costs. Before Princess Eugenie’s wedding, thousands of UK citizens signed a petition against public funds going towards the wedding with a total of 14,000 signatures which were addressed to the House of Commons.
I’m not a British taxpayer, but it would seem to me like royal weddings are actually some of the best use of taxpayer funding towards the royals. Royal weddings are joyful spectacles which boost local and national economies and draw international interest. Spend the money there, you know? But I get it. Eugenie and Harry used up all of that warmth and their weddings were “too big.” So now Beatrice needs to have a smaller wedding. Apparently, she’s not going to even get a carriage ride! Or a reception at Windsor Castle.
Princess Beatrice is planning a low-key wedding following criticism over the cost of her sister Eugenie’s lavish Windsor Castle ceremony. It is believed Prince Andrew’s elder daughter, 31, wants none of the pomp and ceremony typically associated with a royal wedding when she marries property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
While her father battles claims made by victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Beatrice has reportedly opted not to have a carriage ride and castle reception. Instead she and her fiance are thought to be ready to hire a venue themselves rather than depend on one of the Royal Family’s residences. It has been reported that Beatrice is also considering holding the reception in a marquee at her parents’ home, the Royal Lodge at Windsor.
So does this mean that the wedding might not even go down at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor? Or is that a built-in assumption – Beatrice will marry in Windsor, but the reception won’t be at the castle, and they may rent out a space or just use Andrew’s home? I don’t know. On one hand, I’m glad that Beatrice won’t need to “copy” her sister and her cousin’s weddings. On the other hand, I feel like Beatrice is getting screwed over because Eugenie and Harry had their weddings last year.
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Aw, poor Bea. She and Eugenie really are Cinderella’s step-sisters.
I don’t think this girl has a clue as to what truly being screwed over is. She’s worrying about carriage rides while many women are trying to put food on the table for their kids.
*smirks* 😂
And lots of women are recovering from their sexual assaults and rapes. I wonder if someone finally told the royals that trotting Andy out was leaving a sour taste in peoples’ mouths.
Bingo. That’s what I think this is all about. I don’t think it has anything to do with Harry or Eugenie at all.
Yup. Having paedo dad walking her down the isle publicly would be terrible optics for the brf
This site said she is worried about that, it’s not like she was complaining somewhere. So why blame her for being spoiled? She might even like this small wedding.
There’s a cloud hanging over the royal family. The world is in chaos. I doubt the spirit is there for a lavish wedding.
I understand that she has royal problems and that they are a bit shallow but the part where she’s being treated differently by her family with regard to the size and quality wedding stinks.
Hmmmmm, weddings are great and boost the economy when they are far and few between. I guess too many seem to loose their shine.
Plus Harry and William are very much more national favourites. No one has ever given 2 figs for Bea and Eugenie – we simply don’t care enough to be interested in funding their splurge weddings.
I care
If Andrew is hauled to jail I will personally setup a carriage ride for him, with cheering crowds on the way.
i’ll chip in.
Please link the GoFundMe here.
THIS is what’s really behind it all. The Queen has half a billion pounds of personal wealth. £2million is what she finds in the couch cushions. It’s nothing. If she wanted Bea to have that kind of a wedding, Bea would have that kind of a wedding. This is all being made low-key to keep the spotlight off Mummy’s Favourite Boy. You think Bea wants to only have a “garden reception”, not a wedding breakfast and an evening reception?? Yeah, doubt it. Definitely not her shady BF. He’s THIRSTY.
Sorry, but I just don’t think he’s head over heels in love. He’s marrying for connections. She’s marrying to BE married already. These two have NO chemistry/spark between them.
Yes to all of this. That top picture, they look like brother and sister.
Oh – 100% this. I agree money is not this issue – they have plenty of it. No need to feel sorry for this girl either – what a privileged life. Less exposure for the sicko dad. I also agree – this is not a love match.
Yup, exactly. Eugenie had a damn weekend circus for her wedding, with Andy pointing out how many more guests she would have in comparison to the Sussexes. This is the royal family keeping Andrew out of the picture. I don’t feel sorry for her, either. Everything the royals have is more than anyone deserves, and she’ll get a bigger wedding than most civilians. She’ll be fine. It sucks but these are the consequences of who you’re born to – sometimes there are perks (their entire lives), and sometimes there are consequences.
We never even heard the man speak we cant make that assumotion that he is not in love with her when he very well could be depite being a ‘marriage of convience. ‘
“damn weekend circus wedding” someone sounds a bit envious because they couldn’t have the wedding of their dreams. Weekend weddings are all the range. I never understood why people criticised Eugenie for her beautiful wedding. If Bea wants a big wedding, she’ll have it. They can have a second ceremony & reception in Italy and a smaller one here.
She is going to have a gigantic marquee and the flower arrangement will be by some famous designer. Likely they put expensive furniture there so it will look like a fairy tale castle thing.
And likely she gets both a reception as well as a dinner and a morning-after breakfast and whatever.
They just play it down at the moment.
I mean even Prince Michael’s kids did have a grand wedding thing and they are far more down the line than the Yorks.
The Express (aka Palmer and his team) getting facts wrong again likely for clicks.
FYI the RF also paid for Harry and Eugenie’s weddings. The security costs were met by the taxpayer at 6 million and 2 million respectively.
The same appears to be happening for Bea i.e. cost of wedding absorbed by RF with any security being met by the tax payer.
A portion of the policing bill will then be met out of the remainder from the crown estates.
That said I do feel that Bea’s wedding will be scaled down and that is purely to do with her personality. Bea is the dyslexic one who has always had a bad picker when it comes to men and it shows in her personality and lack of confidence.
For the above reasons, I feel Bea will have a small UK wedding i.e. even smaller that Ella Windsor’s wedding and then follow the York Tradition of having a further 2 days celebration. I think the latter 2 days will be in Italy where they could have another ‘Blessing’ for the Mapozzi contingent of the family or guests who couldn’t make the cut in the presence of the Queen.
“Bea is the dyslexic one” is the most bizarre description of why someone’s wedding would be smaller I have ever read. Like, what does that have to do with ANYTHING??
“And it shows in her personality and lack of confidence”. Do you know her to make such an assessment??
I made the comment to show why she would have a lack of confidence and not to attack her dyslexia, as she is often attacked for it by the BM and in particular the express.
Thank you! I can’t quite understand why this was mentioned, either. For the record, some of the biggest and most successful Hollywood celebrities reportedly have dyslexia, Tom Cruise is apparently one of them. It doesn’t look like that impacted his confidence in any way – and I can’t imagine why it would.
Being dyslexic is not a character flaw. I’m unsure why you felt it was important to even mention something like that.
Blaming her as a “bad picker” is misogynistic. Does it occur to you that maybe the men in her life have not been the greatest role models or examples? Say, her father?
The wedding will still be lavish there will br still plenty of royals and celebs attending due Beatrice’s circle of friends.I do think it will be more private and thus less of a security cost.
Multiple wedding celebrations are the norm and not a “York family tradition”, I don’t know where you got that from. I mean, you and your circle might not be able to afford multiple wedding parties, ceremonies – civil & religious- but, yup, most people have multi day weddings & celebrations.
agreed
You are also wrong.The security cost for Harry and Meghan’s wedding is “between £2m and £4m” according to a police commissioner.fyi I got this from the BBC
I also doubt Eugenie’s cost that much
#abolishthemonarchy #getajob
Thank you.
Nah, Bea supposedly has a “job”. Her fiancé is supposedly wealthy. Between the two of them they can throw a private party and leave it at that. No one is interested and the optics are bad.
Bea’s “jobs” have always been “in-name-only-for-the-connections” jobs that she’s held for a year or less, and most of that time was spent on vacation days.
Sure, she and her fiancé can WELL afford to pay for their own party(ies), but when have TRF EVER paid for anything out of their own pockets that they didn’t *have* to? On their own dime, they are VERY tight.
@ogjan – yep, that’s my point – I was being sarcastic – hence the quotes around “job”. The York’s are all useless spongers as far as I’m concerned. The entitlement this family shows is disgusting – starting with PedoAndy, his grifter wife and his spoiled freeloading daughters.
Amen, Redgrl, amen.👍🏻
Beatrice has been at Affiniti for 3 years which is backed by one of her former internships. She does plenty of tech/women events of Affinit has attended mre than a few events this year, Personally, I think being a face/ wineing and dinneing for a company is a good compromise and The company gets to show off a bit they have have a princess. She gets her events and and is getting paid some. Here is a in depth article on her job she has done, which seems she has long term plans for .
https://hrhprincessbeatriceblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/interview.pdf
Seriously if afanti says she has been employed there for 3 years via website are you calling them liars. If you are not in their Human Resources then you can shut it
I think if she attempted any sort of public spectacle of a wedding there would be serious push back from us citizens. Frankly, I am fed up of my tax pounds going towards this lot most especially with all the Andrew debacle. We’d all go petition crazy.
I’m pretty sure Andrew pushed for the big wedding for Eugenie. Remember, the media all said it was a waste and the royals had to beg a network to run it. After Epstein, he just doesn’t have that kind of capital anymore.
This.
“Beatrice is getting screwed over because Eugenie and Harry had their weddings last year.”
This is true and also Andrew’s current “position” is not helping matters at all and neither is all the renovations at Frogmore BS. Reading comments at the Daily Fail, the Daily Fail commentariat appears to be more upset about the renovations at Frogmore BS than Pedo Andy’s behavior.
If Beatrice was willing wait 18-24 months then I am sure she could have a “Royal” wedding.
It would be terrible optics to have another huge Windsor royal wedding with the two last year and with Andrew and Epstein.
I dont see the issue with this. Beatrice and Eugenie and 9 and 10th in line to the throne. Their weddings SHOULD be privately funded. Eugenie’s should have been as well IMO.
Also considering what’s going on with her father and with Brexit the optics of Beatrice having a huge tax-payer funded wedding would be terrible. It was a smart decision.
Agreed. Father AND mother of the bride are in the Epstein mess + Brexit anxiety = bad optics for a splashy Windsor wedding complete with carriage ride. I think some old heads may have a problem with the groom’s out of wedlock son being present along with the baby mama.
Lets not blame Harry and Genie for this. If Bea doesn’t get the wedding she wants it’s because of her embarrassing parents. Period.
I agree. I think the optics are less to do with the weddings last year, and more to do with Andrew and Sarah’s friendship with Epstein.
Personally, I think it is less to do with Eugenie and Harry’s weddings and more to do with her parents’ disgrace.
Personally, I think she would love to have a big wedding like her sister. But given her father’s criminal behaviour, she will have a low-key one. And I agree with the poster upthread, her fiancee is not into her but in it for the position, and she wants to get married so she won’t feel left out, although I don’t really see why, she is only 31, not old these days.
Look-if the wedding is “privately funded” I think there will be many “ private receptions” that will make up for the “low key” facade. She’ll get what she wants, the public will just get the quiet version of things. There has to be the usual security so the price tag for this isn’t going to mysteriously go down. It’s just that Taxpayers won’t foot the bill.
Poor Bea., she should not be punished for the sins of her mother and her father.
Even her engagement announcement was blimp, no television interview. Nothing. Just a post on Instagram ….this is the complete opposite of Cinderella.
Beatrice deserves better and I don’t even like her 365 day of the year self
We’re supposed to feel sorry for a woman born into extreme wealth and privilege because her wedding isn’t going to be as fancy as her sister’s (allegedly).
Uh, no.
Yeah that’s about it. Eugenie shouldn’t have had the expensive wedding either but her Father’s grandiosity prevailed.
Beatrice smaller wedding has nothing to do with Meghan or Eugenie but EVERYTHING to do with Andrew. It was Andrew that pushed for Eugenie’s wedding to be televised and for the carriage ride. Andrew has fallen out of favor thus Bea’s wedding has been downgraded from Public and Expensive to Private and Expensive.
Yes, a very private and expensive wedding. Hopefully we don’t have to hear anything else until the wedding has come and gone. She’s a non-working royal so no one really cares about the details.
If Bea truly wants a wedding more on the lines of Eugenie’s, it’s a shame she can’t have it. Through no fault of hers, the British public might not care to see Andrew as the father of the bride right now. However, lest we feel too sorry for Bea, google images of the Royal Lodge at Windsor. It’s huge and gorgeous, with reception rooms that are fit for your basic royal castle. In other words, a home reception there would be pretty fabulous. Also, that picture above where she is wearing a turquoise dress is a wonderful color on Bea.
She should have a wedding in Italy (privately funded of course ).If I were her I’d do a gorgeous wedding on an ancient villa/estate and buck every tradition usually expected of an English princess.Dress however you want,invite (and exclude)whoever you want-bold,splashy,small,simple-whatever.She can’t change her disgusting father,but she could have a lovely wedding her way and be pleasantly surprised that no horse and carriage are necessary for a beautiful wedding.
Lol, you don’t have to be an actual Princess to have a luxury wedding on a fabulous Italian estate or a gorgeous Italian Villa. Been to plenty of those weddings, they’re very chic.
The wedding will still be lavish there will still be plenty of royals and celebs attending due to Beatrice’s and Edo’s circle of friends. I ‘ve seen her hang out with celebs and foreign royals. I cant imagine Edo not paying for things that have to do with his wedding. I can also imagine some of her family members, friends chipping in if money was a big deal which I doubt.
I do think it will be more private and thus less of a security cost, of course their will be some security as HM and her husband will most likely attend, unless god forbid there is health issues and what not. As well as William and his children will be there. However, I think the Privacy in this occassion has to do with more than one matter than one big matter. His child, he will be 3 going on 4 by the time the wedding arrives. So he may have a part in it, rumor has it he is best man. They probably want it more private because of him. Just because they have to be in the spotlight doesn’t mean Edo wants his son’s privacy invaded and her parents disgraces also factor in. Also, if they have a more private wedding they can have a 2’nd wedding in Italy if they wish, though people would would still complain. Im still holding out hope for an online stream.
Which foreign royals? I have gotten the sense the British don’t really spend much time with European royals.
Beatrice will have a huge list. And likely far more posh then Harry and perhaps even more so then her sister. The York sisters move in much more posh circles then even their cousins do. Like Eugenie, Beatrice actually socializes with continental royals (at least former) on a personal level, and not simply at royal events and Olympics.
At the very least we will see the royals that we saw at Eugenie’s: The Hannoverian princes and their wives. A few Greeks. I could see the Cassiraghi trio and their spouses as they move in the same circle (not royals but royal related).
Beatrice was at Amedeo of Belgium’s wedding in Italy. He also attended the masked Ball at Windsor to mark her 18th birthday. I would be very surprised if he and his wife are not invited to her wedding.
Pavlos and Marie Chantal of Greece attended Eugenie’s wedding with at least one of their children. They will probably be at Beatrice’s nuptials.
Let’s not even get started on the Mapelli-Mozzi, with their familial and friendship ties toItalian and British high society.
Queen Reina and her family could attend as well Bea has vacationed with her son and attended Salma’s graduation at Sandhurst, she seems on friendly terms with them.Not to mention some ambassadors, etc. lt will be a luxurious big wedding either way.
The York reputation is seriously tarnished and the last thing they need is a lavish spectacle of a wedding to draw more public ire. If the Epstein thing hadn’t happened I’m pretty sure Andrew would want the same wedding as last time. Heck he probably still does but someone, perhaps Bea herself, is exercising some common sense.
He’s divorced, doesn’t that change things? Charles and Camilla had a low key wedding too.
Wouldn’t think so, since Megan was divorced too
He’s not divorced, I have seen no papper trails of this, that is simply not true. He and his ex had a kid, they just never married .
I don’t feel too sorry for Beatrice. She’s still gonna have a far more lavish wedding than the average Joe could ever aspire to. All due to an accident of birth. And yes her dad is a shady criminal grifter who needs to go the f*ck away. As my hubby would say: Circumstances prevail. Shrug.
Beatrice isn’t being screwed over because of Eugenie and Harry’s weddings. She’s being screwed over because her father remained friends with a pedophile and was unrepentant about it and continues to be. He cashes in on the Queen’s good will with the people in order to cover his own a–, and I will never not believe that Eugenie’s wedding wasn’t at least in part motivated by a desire for more good press for Andy. Not to mention the fact that Brexit is just around the corner, and flashing around the unearned wealth of a man who will likely never face consequences for raping a victim of human trafficking is probably NOT the type of spectacle the BRF needs at the moment.
Does she want a spectacle wedding?