Sienna Mapelli Mozzi

Princess Beatrice, Mrs. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary), was born on August 8, 1988, at the Portland Hospital in London. She is a member of the British royal family and is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. As the niece of King Charles III, she is fifth in the line of succession to the British throne and is ranked ninth as of 2025.

She is a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Her full name at birth is Beatrice Elizabeth Mary. She was baptized on December 20, 1988, in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. Her godparents included Viscount Linley (her father's cousin), the Duchess of Roxburghe, Peter Palumbo, Gabrielle Greenall, and Carolyn Cotterell. Her name was kept confidential until nearly two weeks after her birth. Beatrice has a younger sister, Princess Eugenie, born in 1990.

Her parents divorced amicably when she was seven years old, with both parents retaining joint custody. Following the divorce, Queen Elizabeth II provided a trust fund totaling £1.4 million for Beatrice and Eugenie. During her childhood, Beatrice frequently traveled abroad with her parents.

Beatrice attended Upton House School in Windsor starting in 1991, then Coworth Park School (now Coworth Flexlands School), and later St George's School in Ascot from 2000 to 2007. Diagnosed with dyslexia at age seven, she publicly disclosed her condition in 2005. She stayed at St George's School to complete her A-Levels, earning grades including an 'A' in drama and 'B's in history and film studies. She served as Head Girl her final year and was a member of the school choir. Her eighteenth birthday was celebrated with a masked ball at Windsor Castle in July 2006, photographed by Count Nikolai von Bismarck.

In September 2008, Beatrice commenced a three-year bachelor's degree program in history and history of ideas at Goldsmiths, University of London, earning a BA (2:1) in 2011.

Professionally, she gained experience as a sales assistant at Selfridges during the summer of 2008 and worked unpaid in the Foreign Office's press department. She was also interested in working for the Financial Times website and appeared as an extra in the film "The Young Victoria" in 2009. Beatrice was a paid intern at Sony Pictures, resigning after the cyber-attack on Sony in late 2014.

By April 2015, she had moved to New York City, where she worked full-time and split her time between London and New York. Under the professional name Beatrice York, she became Vice President of Strategy and Strategic Partnerships at Afiniti. Her role included leading initiatives to support women in leadership and engaging in charity endeavors and speaking engagements. She also held positions at Scale AI and LionTree Asset Management and founded By-Eq Limited, an advisory group focusing on emotional intelligence and artificial intelligence.

In 2022, it was reported that her taxpayer-funded police security was withdrawn in 2011, possibly as part of cost-cutting measures associated with the Royal Family. In 2025, she co-founded Purpose Economy Intelligence Ltd with Luis Alvarado Martínez, a Spanish executive formerly with the World Economic Forum, serving as the company's director. The company develops software solutions and offers management consulting.

Princess Beatrice has participated in royal duties, including attending the Royal Maundy service in 2012, welcoming the Olympic flame near Leeds in 2012, promoting Britain overseas in Germany in 2013, visiting the Isle of Wight, and accompanying her father during an official trip to the United Arab Emirates in 2014. She was part of the family vigil around Queen Elizabeth II's coffin in September 2022 and attended her funeral.

Her marriage took place on July 17, 2020, at the Royal Chapel of All Saints, Windsor, to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, an English-born property developer with Italian noble lineage. The couple had become engaged in September 2019, and the wedding was postponed from May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beatrice had a stepson, Christopher Woolf ("Wolfie"), from Edoardo's previous relationship. She and Edoardo have two daughters: Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, born on September 18, 2021, and Athena Elizabeth Rose, born prematurely on January 22, 2025. Sienna was initially eleventh in line to the throne but moved to tenth after Queen Elizabeth II's death; Athena is eleventh in line.

Beatrice is involved in numerous charitable activities. She supported projects such as Springboard for Children, the Teenage Cancer Trust, and Children in Crisis. She became the first royal family member to complete the London Marathon in 2010 to raise funds for charity. She serves as patron or ambassador for organizations including the York Musical Society, the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre, Children in Crisis, Street Child, and the Pitch@Palace initiative. She has undertaken international charity work, including visits to Nepal, India, Bhutan, Laos, and Asia, promoting various causes.

She founded the charity Big Change, promoting skills development outside traditional academia, and participated in fundraising climbs of Mont Blanc and Mount Etna. She has engaged in advocacy against bullying and has attended major events such as the Met Gala. In her role as a member of the royal family, she has received appointments and patronages from various organizations, including the British Skin Foundation, Borne, the Chartered College of Teaching, and the Outward Bound Trust.

Titles:

Since her marriage, she is styled as "Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, Mrs. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi." Her arms and heraldic arms reflect her status as a granddaughter of the monarch.

Publications:

In March 2021, she authored an article in the Evening Standard titled "Getting into stories has been a gift I'm happy to have shared with lockdown life." In March 2025, she contributed to British Vogue discussing her daughter's preterm birth.