Princess Beatrice “broke protocol” with her wedding plans. I say that half-jokingly, because as we’ve seen before, protocol isn’t really protocol, it’s just a loose set of “well, this is how it was done BEFORE!” guidelines. Usually, a royally engaged couple will set the date pretty quickly, generally within a month, after they announce their engagement. Beatrice waited more than four months. The official reason for why she couldn’t make any announcements last fall was the British election, and not wanting to cause a royal commotion. But the real reason was her father’s perversions with Jeffrey Epstein, and the fact that Andrew exposed himself as a liar and predator in his BBC interview. Turns out, all of that threw Bea’s wedding plans into disarray a few times:
Princess Beatrice is finally ready to share her wedding plans after months of tension following her father Prince Andrew’s scandal. In November, the Duke of York stepped back from his royal duties amid the fallout from his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“The date was changed two times to adjust [around Andrew’s scandal],” a source tells PEOPLE. “It will be smaller than the original plan.”
The royal bride-to-be, 31, who is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, is set to wed financier Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 36, at St. James’s Palace in London on May 29 with a reception to follow at her grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s gardens at Buckingham Palace. Unlike Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and Princess Eugenie’s nuptials, Beatrice and Mozzi’s wedding will be a smaller celebration. The couple will also not have a carriage procession, which “is keeping with their wishes for a more low-key” affair, a royal source says.
The duke will walk his daughter down the aisle, and Beatrice’s future stepson Christopher (from Mozzi’s relationship with former girlfriend Dara Huang), who turns 4 in March, will also serve in the bridal party. “Andrew will probably give a toast at the reception like any father of the bride,” the source adds. “They will try to normalize this as much as possible.”
“They will try to normalize this as much as possible” is basically the perfect summary quote for everything involving Andrew. The royal family is trying to normalize this arrogant, stupid, vile rapist. The royal family is trying to normalize his “comeback” into royal life. The Queen will complete her mission to normalize Andrew back into full-time working royal status by Beatrice’s wedding. As for Bea’s changing wedding plans… she always gets the short end of the stick, and I’m still kind of worried that Edo will bounce before the wedding.
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I wish her the best. I truly do but her soon to be husband gives me vibes of being the Antony Armstrong-Jones/Mark Phillips of her generation
She deserves happiness in the love department (hasn’t been smooth sailing for her) and in general so I’ll gladly hope I’m wrong
I think that her fiancé will either call it off a month ahead of time or it will be a quicky two year starter marriage. He seems like the type who is very interested in upward mobility and now that Andrew doesn’t have the connections and power that he once had, the motivation to stay together might not be there.
Beatrice is also rushing on her side. She wants to be married before her grandparents pass away. I will be shocked if this marriage lasts more than a few years.
She rushed into this too quickly, the man has an ex that had a baby with him. He reminds me too of Armstrong Jones.
No he is not. He is a bit worse than Antony and Mark combined.
First, I never saw someone so hungry for cammeras; second, all that wealth claimmed by the tabloids never convinced me: I would bet a fair amount on this being a construction from them; third, if the girls are getting married, kids will come, larger budget needed.
Andrew is famous for milking the people, not for being open handed; he won’t want to pay for Bea and Eugene household with their expensive train of life. And I doubt very much the husbands can meet the princesses style of living. My best guess is that they’re tight to say the best.
So, an old dream comes to the rescue: insert the princesses on the payroll. And I’m sure they will unless Charles becomes king first.
I have two thoughts. One. She should have just eloped to Bermuda or something and had a very small ceremony and put the marriage itself above all the pomp and circumstance. Two. Andrew is a dill hole, and I’m sorry she’s had to go through this while trying to plan a wedding. Not her fault.
I get Kushner vibes from Edo.
His son is adorable and must be kept away from the mess that is Windsor.
That is all.
I hope the kid’s mother is able to keep him away from the royal dumpster fire as much as possible.
Please keep using that photo. It needs to be seen as much as possible.
Agree
Kaiser, I appreciate the photo and your avoidance of euphemisms when you’re talking about Andrew/Epstein – it shouldn’t be soft pedaled. (Also love the way Lainey always refers to “dead rapist pedophile” Epstein). We should not let Andrew’s sins be forgotten.
If only People magazine would apply the same factual no holds barred approach with this monster instead of stating that his troubles are due to his friendship with Epstein & nothing to do with fact he is accused of raping a minor 🙄💩
Part of the reasoning for the UK not being interested in any kind of pursuit of Andrew over this is because in the UK she was of legal age for consent and not considered a minor. I most certainly am not defending him however all of you are applying US laws to the rest of the world and like it or not US laws are not the laws of the entire planet. Again not defending his actions but there is country after country in the western world where the legal age of consent ranges from 14 – 16. And as a side note a lot of the western world thinks the US has no right to scream about other countries laws on such when you guys allow your children to be wholesale slaughtered by gunfire in schools on a regular basis. Again not trying to justify but just trying to make you understand how so many other countries view your opinions on this subject and why they do not listen to you on it.
Thanks for that perspective but it is no excuse for US publication People’s idiocy 🤢
Yeah, but didn’t the rape take place in the US?
Caty I agree that.
shamima begum at age 15 went to Syria and took up arms with isis . Had children and wants to come back. No one is screaming she was only a child at the time . They said she should have known better and revoke her citizenship. I think they except more from their teens
@cady – thanks for the civics lesson. But age isn’t the factor here. You used the word yourself – CONSENT. It’s called the age of consent, not “the age above which actions are never considered rape.” This was a very young woman being trafficked to powerful men by a convicted, well known sex offender and his primary procurer. For her, consent wasn’t even on the table.
Andrew isn’t being pursued because he’s being protected by his family, specifically his mother, the Queen. I’m sure there are people in the UK and elsewhere who also think well, she’s “over age”, so it’s not an issue of coercion. Just because they think it doesn’t mean they’re right.
And since you’re talking about other countries’ laws, my personal opinion is that 14 or 15 years old is too young for an age of consent, anywhere, anytime. Other people may have a different opinion; that’s mine.
Can’t disagree about the guns – but this is an article about the Yorks and Andrew and I’m sticking to the main point. I get it, you don’t like/respect the US. But the gun discussion belongs elsewhere.
Sex trafficking victims have never provided consent and their ages are irrelevant. It’s victim blaming to even get into the age of consent discussion here and really ignorant. Andrew raped underage girls who were sex trafficking victims. Period.
Well windyriver…to put it bluntly your opinion means squat to other countries governments in regard to their laws. As for the gun issue it was only brought up to explain why other western countries do not listen to you guys when it comes to a lot of issues, this being one of them. It was not an attempt to discuss it broadly. I was not in anyway defending Andrew, he is a dirt bag, however nothing will ever happen to him, he will never set foot in the US again and he will get to eventually return to his former positions, whether any of you like it or not that is the reality. Living in your country with your current federal government you should be the first to understand that truth, justice and ethics most certainly do not always win. ( And no there is not a lot of respect for your country at the moment. The world watches in real time as it devolves into a banana republic.)
Well cady, to put it equally bluntly, I pointed out things that were my own opinion. I don’t expect other countries to conform to the laws of my own, but as far as I’m concerned, a country that thinks 14 or 15 years old is an acceptable age of consent is one I question. So I guess we’re equal in our negative opinions.
You’re the one who brought up age as part of the reason why people in the UK might not be interested in pursuing Andrew. I explained why age was irrelevant, and it didn’t matter what the laws of different countries were. I don’t expect Andrew to get what he deserves and I didn’t think you were defending him. Nic919 above was pretty concise about this and it doesn’t need further explanation.
You’re welcome to your opinion of the US, though I’ll point out that Great Britain, to mention one, has been giving the US a run for it’s money in the completely screwed up and embarrassing government department (not to mention how the monarchy looks to a lot of people right now). However, just as I don’t assume Boris Johnson speaks for all Britons, you shouldn’t assume that Trump represents all Americans. As has been said before, the majority of the citizens who voted did NOT vote for him. Also, the US is very large, and the federal government isn’t the total reflection of what goes on here. In any event, in every country, regardless of government, there are always people working towards common goals of improving the quality of life for everyone, even if they’re not always successful. Just because elected representatives are without ethics, doesn’t mean everyone else is. As I’ve said, just my opinion.
She has always taken after her horrible father but the older she gets the stronger the resemblance. It hard to unsee her disgusting father when looking at her now. Don’t hold it against her but it’s unfortunate
Even in this article they can’t keep their BS straight. Source states: “It will be smaller than the original plan.” And then at the end of the very next paragraph quoted: “….. will be a smaller celebration. The couple will also not have a carriage procession, which “is keeping with their wishes for a more low-key” affair, a royal source says.” So which is it: smaller than planned or low key like they want it? I say Beatrice wanted all the bells, whistles, AND crowds and because her father imploded on TV, she ain’t getting it. No way, no how, not even for a BLOOD princess. In all his posts about this wedding, Michael D at DLISTED constantly links to — as he says — the millions of people at Eugenie’s wedding photos. The photos show very few people with a great many police and crowd control gating. My favorite photo is the one he uses showing side-by-side comparison of Sussex crowds to Eugenie’s. This family and their bullshit. I guess the York woman take their pitch from their father and live and speak from cloud-coo-coo-land. I for one, simply can’t find any sympathy for Beatrice. I would put money on her not having expended one moment’s sympathy on the trafficked young girls that her father used like Kleenex. So no F***s to give here. I’ve also read — and it sure sounds like this is coming from the York camp — that they do not want Meghan at the ceremony. They are so up themselves that I’m sure it’s never entered their pea brains that Meghan probably is trying equally hard to figure out how to not be in the same space with them.
I would love for Harry and Meghan to figure out how to miss this event.
The Sussexes could be invited to the wedding ceremony but not to the reception afterwards. If they are invited to the reception afterwards and attend they will be humiliated … sat away from the rest of the royal family …not spoken to, etc. Dan Wootten will have an exclusive from William about how the royal family snubbed Meghan to put her in her place. I don’t think Harry would risk putting Meghan through that.
However, due to the small size of the chapel, I don’t think the Sussexes will be invited to the wedding ceremony either. What will probably happen is the Sussexes won’t be invited to Beatrice’s wedding but KP will spin their non-attendance as MEGHAN is snubbing the Royal Family (again).
I’d be very surprised if Harry and Meghan aren’t at the wedding. It was my understanding that Harry remains close to his cousins. IMO – I think the headlines of them NOT being invited would overshadow the actual wedding.
I would find that rich if they do not invite the Sussexes because all the stories before the wedding said that Harry advocated for Fergie to be invited to his wedding while she was snubbed from William and Kate’s. If I were H&M I would go on a fabulous vacation on that date and live it up. But then I am petty that way, lol.
If any of the higher ups don’t want Harry and Meghan there, they won’t be there. These cousins were so close, they didn’t stand up for Harry’s wife.
If they invite several hundred people (a “small” wedding) I can’t believe they wouldn’t invite their damn relatives. The rest of us suck it up. The thought of them being so childish is both disturbing and delicious.
How terribly sad that poor little Bea had to give up blood princess dibs on her ‘special day’. Bet the Queen (malevolent old hag) is gutted
I’m not one to wish violent ends on people but would not be at all sad if Paedo Rapist Andy (and woman-grabbing Trump) wandered into the path of a stray meteorite. Or two. Just to ensure the job’s done
the Duke of York stepped back from his royal duties amid the fallout from his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Excuse me??! He has a lot more to answer for than “his ties” to Epstein. Remember Virginia, People Magazine? This guy is accused of rape himself!!!! That is worse than associating with and partying with Epstein ffs. I know, I know, People Magazine, your euphemisms and inaccuracies by shielding Andrew are just your way of avoiding libel suits from Andy, but seriously, do you think he’d win?
Remember 1984, in which history was rewritten constantly to reflect the new establishment narrative?
No please refresh my memory – at that point in time I was preoccupied with the demands of high school & Duran Duran 🤪
@Iamcait the reference was to 1984 the book by George Orwell. Not the year in which you were distracted by Duran Duran. 😀
Harry and Meghan need to stay as far away from this as they can. I’m sure Harry loves his cousin (he seems like a loving man) so he can send a lovely gift and a nice note. But if he and his wife show up at the wedding, it’s going to be ALL ABOUT THE SUSSEXES and how it’s THEIR fault that Bea can’t get the wedding she wanted instead of putting the blame on her sex offender father, where it belongs.
I think Harry & Meghan will be invited (so the BRF can cover their asses) but they will be strongly encouraged not to come (or to come to the ceremony only and leave immediately after). If they do go to the reception (provided they are even invited to the reception), Andrew & Fergie will make sure they are sidelined (seated far away from royal family …you can’t sit with us), William & Kate will ignore them, stories will come out that they were SNUBBED etc. Harry & Meghan know this, which is why they probably won’t go.
Or, Meghan could troll them by showing up pregnant (again, lol).
Jeebuz this family…it’s sickening the way they’re all proceeding as if nothing happened; his forcing himself on a trafficked teenager, his utterly deceitful and lame-brained appearance on TV, his godawful mother doing the church walks with him grinning away like the Cheshire cat, his sleazy grifter of an ex-wife. Hopefully the rot from within will eventually cause the whole fucking monarchy to collapse.
I bet Harry & Meghan go to the reception and not the wedding in the chapel. That way it remains Bea & Edo’s day.
This makes the most sense to me. They could slip in and out of the reception site, but I think it would be harder to walk into the ceremony undetected.
The guy looks completely checked out.
The couple will also not have a carriage procession, which “is keeping with their wishes for a more low-key” affair, a royal source says. Please, if their opinion actually mattered, they’d have the biggest, most lavish wedding taxpayer money can buy. Also, please don’t post any pics – for obvious reasons.
This has all the appearances of an arranged marriage. The fathers got together and arranged a meeting and so it was agreed, much to Bea’s delight. Ed looks as if he is doing his duty to country by marrying off the last blood princess of that generation. Hoping this works out for the couple. Harry and Meghan will attend the ceremony to the sounds of hundreds of camera clicks. Politely declining the reception to follow as they have charities to visit and deals to be done. It’s a weekday don’t you know.
God, that smug face in the top photo really says it all. I predict a pregnancy very soon after the wedding and then he will start stepping out on her until it culminates in a divorce less than 5 years later. That’s my prediction anyway.