Princess Beatrice Is Breaking A Royal Norm, Taking A New Role After Wedding

Royal weddings are exuberant in every sense of the word. But, Princess Beatrice – who is next in line to walk down the aisle with beau Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi— might be going against the norm. She will be breaking the royal tradition, and have the expenses paid for privately.

It is alleged that Beatrice will not have an extravagant wedding. The Princess will be the first among Queen’s grandchildren to settle for a low-key, frills-free wedding.

What’s more, Princess Beatrice will reportedly not have a designer wedding dress, unlike other Royal brides. “At this point, rather embarrassingly, the response has been lukewarm and it looks like she might have to actually pay and design it for herself,” said the source. Several reasons are being cited for the low-key ceremony—Mozzi’s two-year-old son with ex Dara Huang being one. Beatrice will, officially, become stepmother to the baby boy Wolfie after her wedding.

While it is, indeed, rare for a Princess to settle for a low-key wedding, insiders conceded that Beatrice wouldn’t want it any other way. “There have been three big royal weddings there in the past year or so and I’m not sure that’s what Bea wants,” said a friend. In fact, some feel the scaled back wedding is fitting.

“It has been reported that Beatrice is opting for a low key royal wedding when she marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi next year,” said Richard Fitzwilliams, the royal commentator, in an interview. “This makes total sense, I had thought that she would have chosen St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle like Eugenie as the Yorks so often seem extravagant, but this would have been controversial involving high-security costs, estimated last year at £2 million for Eugenie’s wedding, from the public purse,” he added.

Off the record, royal weddings have, reportedly, often caused a dent in the British taxpayer’s pocket. Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding approximately cost the British public a whopping £24 million. Just a couple of months later, Zara Tindall and Mike Tindall tied the knot at Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirk and security for the event is reported to have cost the British taxpayer £500,000. Whereas Princess Eugenie’s St George’s Chapel wedding surpassed Zara’s, as the security expenses for the event alone amounted to £2 million.

While Princesses Eugine and Beatrice have carved a niche for themselves in regard to their respective careers, it is also known that they are both not working royals. “The idea of a far less spectacular wedding paid for privately, is an excellent one, as it would be a happy and fashionable affair and it would also be popular with the public and in the press,” Fitzwilliams added.