Princess Beatrice and Count Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are engaged, wedding 2020

[amabel]

Edo is the CEO of the real estate firm Banda, which he founded. The firm specialises is discreetly finding houses and properties for extremely wealthy clients, to their specifications. The sort that don't look in real estate firms' shop windows obviously! Anyway he's made a fortune out of it as he's reputedly a multi-millionaire.

So I would imagine.

[sandy]

I don't think he has to work 9-5.

[amabel]

I don't think he has to work 9-5.

Of course not.. so he and Bea who is not exactly a word class worker, will have plenty of time to spend together...

[sandy]

which could be a good thing or not so good, depending how it all works out.

[amabel]

which could be a good thing or not so good, depending how it all works out.

well its not really of any great importance.  They are not important royals....

[sara8150]

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[sandy]

Not surprised.  Was the woman really Bea's love rival? The press said she wasn't. I hope the tyke is a page, he's a little too small to have the responsibilities of being a best man.

[LouisFerdinand]

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[Princess Cassandra]

Of course not.. so he and Bea who is not exactly a word class worker, will have plenty of time to spend together...

That is not known. Successful people with businesses they started themselves tend to work longer hours and more than five days a week - sometimes because they have so much to do, but often because they are totally immersed in it. 

[amabel]

That is not known. Successful people with businesses they started themselves tend to work longer hours and more than five days a week - sometimes because they have so much to do, but often because they are totally immersed in it. 

Possbily but he is not someone who came up from poverty.. and its quite possible that as the boss, he is ready to give himself plenty of free time.  Beatrice is a flitter from job to job, I believe..unlike Eugenie who seems to be more stable in that line... so I would say the 2 of them  are well off enough to spend a good deal of time together.

[wannable]

Allegedly Dara the ex girlfriend is invited to the wedding, and Wolfie will be part of the bridal party.

[Princess Cassandra]

Possbily but he is not someone who came up from poverty.. and its quite possible that as the boss, he is ready to give himself plenty of free time.  Beatrice is a flitter from job to job, I believe..unlike Eugenie who seems to be more stable in that line... so I would say the 2 of them  are well off enough to spend a good deal of time together.

Possibly, but I know from family experience that you can't be CEO of a successful business if you don't spend a lot of time and energy on it. If he started the business and made it successful, you know that he has already put a lot of himself into it. You can't just hire executives and expect them to run it just as you would, Of course, you could give up control and let it be their baby....usually with a sad outcome.  Maybe this is a different situation than Beatrice is used to - possibly he is a hard working man. I don't really know anything about him,

[amabel]

Possibly, but I know from family experience that you can't be CEO of a successful business if you don't spend a lot of time and energy on it. If he started the business and made it successful, you know that he has already put a lot of himself into it. You can't just hire executives and expect them to run it just as you would, Of course, you could give up control and let it be their baby....usually with a sad outcome.  Maybe this is a different situation than Beatrice is used to - possibly he is a hard working man. I don't really know anything about him,

I doubt it somehow. He's born a rich aristocrat.. and while there are some "born rich" who are workaholics I'd say most of them aren't.  And Bea is more socialite than working gal.. so she will problaby expect him to be around...

[sandy]

I somehow don't think he has a demanding job. He probably has trust fund money and does not have to put in huge hours at the company.

[Curryong]

According to this report in the Express Beatrice's wedding is likely to be 'privately funded'. The article states that a BP 'spokesman confirmed this'. This follows the fuss over the 2 million for Eugenie's nuptials.

Princess Beatrice wedding to be privately-funded after Eugenie?s cost taxpayer ?2 million | Royal | News | Express.co.uk

If this is true, and we don't know that it is, it means IMO that the Queen, Andrew and Edo will be paying for most of the costs. Therefore the Regiment of Guards that were prominent at Eugenie's wedding  are unlikely to participate. There's also unlikely to be a carriage ride into Windsor imo as this would certainly increase security costs. These are covered by extra Home Office funding for the Thames Valley Police.

We don't  know whether this wedding will be televised either. However, there are bound to be lots of photos.

[sandy]

Probably People Magazine will have a feature on it.

[Curryong]

I think all 'the glossies' will. I can't see Beatrice going the Peter Phillips Hello route and giving any of them an exclusive on the wedding/reception. The Queen was apparently really disappointed that the bride and groom decided on that, but neither Peter nor Autumn had that much disposable income. However, Beatrice is in a different position. Edo and his family are very wealthy and Andrew apparently has plenty of money, though it's best not to investigate the sources of the wealth too closely!

[Blue Clover]

I wonder if this is the climate for culling royal status and cutting back on royal expenditures. I bet they will go small, privately funded, and less of a typical royal wedding than we expect.

[sara8150]

Princess Beatrice rips up the Royal rule book as she refuses a procession for her wedding | Daily Mail Online
No wedding at Westminster abbey and St.George?s chapel what next?!? But Beatrice rip royal book like Duchess of Sussex unbelievable!!

1.no wedding at Westminster Abbey and St.George?s chapel
2.no carriages ride
3.no pomp wedding
4.no broadcast wedding televised

[Curryong]

I think that Bea is considerably shyer than her sister Eugenie, and genuinely wants a quieter wedding with no pomp and circumstance. However, it's remarkable how this news chimes in with the public mood about Andrew which has no doubt been picked up by the BRF.

If there is a wedding at St George's and I feel there will be, in spite of the Fail's assertions, then no carriage ride and no broadcast will mean a very quiet and low key affair. And a reception at Royal Lodge wouldn't attract cameras either.

[sara8150]

I think that Bea is considerably shyer than her sister Eugenie, and genuinely wants a quieter wedding with no pomp and circumstance. However, it's remarkable how this news chimes in with the public mood about Andrew which has no doubt been picked up by the BRF.

If there is a wedding at St George's and I feel there will be, in spite of the Fail's assertions, then no carriage ride and no broadcast will mean a very quiet and low key affair. And a reception at Royal Lodge wouldn't attract cameras either.

I don?t think so!! Beatrice and Edoardo makes decisions is finalized but no pictures publish till release from Palace and Yorks also I?m not sure if Beatrice says no St. George?s chapel for wedding end of discussion without HM Queen?s consent I?m guaranteed royals fans will be so disappointed for Beatrice?s wedding

[amabel]

I think that Bea is considerably shyer than her sister Eugenie, and genuinely wants a quieter wedding with no pomp and circumstance. However, it's remarkable how this news chimes in with the public mood about Andrew which has no doubt been picked up by the BRF.

If there is a wedding at St George's and I feel there will be, in spite of the Fail's assertions, then no carriage ride and no broadcast will mean a very quiet and low key affair. And a reception at Royal Lodge wouldn't attract cameras either.

I hope she is ok with it... I don't grudge her and Eugenie  a nice wedding but the fact is that since the Andrew scandals re ignited, a big fuss for B's wedding is not going ot  please the public...

[DiggingHeavs]

I don?t think so!! Beatrice and Edoardo makes decisions is finalized but no pictures publish till release from Palace and Yorks also I?m not sure if Beatrice says no St. George?s chapel for wedding end of discussion without HM Queen?s consent I?m guaranteed royals fans will be so disappointed for Beatrice?s wedding

Well first off absolutely none of this is confirmed but if Bea and Edo wanted a wedding somewhere else I don't think they'd need the Queen's consent apart from checking to see if Granny and Grandpa could make it to the location. They would need consent to hold it in St. George's or any other Royal Peculiar but not the other way around.

The "not using tax payer money" is about the kerfuffle over the cost of security for Eugenie's wedding and probably her father's scandals but doesn't necessarily mean it will be a quiet low key wedding, I don't think Lady Gabriella's was for all the guests. Just that it probably won't be as public as Eugenie and Jack's.

She wouldn't be "ripping up the royal rule book" any more than Harry and Meghan actually did (which isn't much). She has a lot more "wiggle room" to do things differently if she wanted to anyway. It's only the Wales boys and her sister who have had anything particularly "public" since her parents' generation, many royals have married in places not WA or St. George's.

[amabel]

but Beatrice is unluckily marrying now after her fathers problems over Epstein have come back into public notice.  I don't think he will ever recover his reputation after this.. and it will affect his family.. So Bea will look bad if she seems to be insisting on a big glamourous wedding.. regardless of issues like security costs.

[wannable]

If the latest DM article is true, based on it, she and Edo are looking for venues, apparently they do not want Windsor nor St. Georges, nor nothing in London.  It may end up in Yorkshire in some castle or stately home, where there is medieval churches, abbeys and chapels.