Princess Beatrice ‘is ready to start a family with multi-millionaire property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’ – and mum Sarah Ferguson is chuffed
PRINCESS Beatrice and boyfriend Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are now engaged after the multi-millionaire popped the question in Italy last week – and the royal is “ready to start a family”.
According to royal sources, it might not be long before we hear the pitter patter of tiny feet for the 31-year-old and the property tycoon – and mum Sarah Ferguson is excited for another royal wedding.
A royal source told Fabulous Digital: “Princess Beatrice is head over heels in love and wants to marry as soon as possible and start a family.
“Fergie is hardly able to contain her motherly delight at another York wedding in Windsor.”
The news was announced today with the palace revealed Edoardo popped the question in Italy last week, with the wedding scheduled for 2020.
Sarah Ferguson, 59, and Prince Andrew, 59, who marriage broke down in 1996, said: “We are thrilled that Beatrice and Edoardo have got engaged, having watched their relationship develop with pride.
“We are the lucky parents of a wonderful daughter who has found her love and companion in a completely devoted friend and loyal young man.”
And Sarah and Prince Andrew aren’t the only family member to be excited for a potential upcoming wedding.
The source added: “Eugenie and Jack are delighted that Beatrice has found a caring man, despite his relationship pitfalls” – referring to breaking off his previous engagement with ex-partner Dara Huang.
Beatrice has been going out with Edo, who specialises in discreetly developing multi-million pound homes for rich clients, since around the nuptials of Princess Eugenie last October.
A friend told The Sun that they “hit it off instantly”.
Edoardo, 36, has even moved in with Beatrice at St James Palace and also impressed her parents after joining them at the Bahrain Grand Prix in April.
WHO IS PRINCESS BEATRICE'S FIANCE EDOARDO MAPELLI MOZZI?
The Duke and Duchess of York’s daughter is engaged to be married to property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
Mozzi specialises in discreetly finding and developing multi-million pound homes for rich clients.
He also has a two year old son named Wolfie with ex-fiance Dara Huang.
Beatrice, who has not dated anyone else since splitting up from her boyfriend of ten years, American Dave Clark in 2016, met Edo at her sister Eugenie’s wedding last October.
Descended from Italian nobility, Edo is a Count whose father Alex was an Olympic skier in the early 1970s.
Edo has been a family friend of the Yorks for years and when his stepfather Christopher Shale – a close friend of former Prime Minister David Cameron – died in 2011, Andy, Sarah, Bea and Eugenie all went to the funeral.
They’ve even to weddings together, including in Tuscany in July, and stayed in one of his family’s houses in Kenya at the beginning of the year.
The source added: “Beatrice was delighted to find herself in the company of easy on the eye Edo and they started dating under the radar almost immediately.”
They went public with their relationship in March, after Princess Beatrice attended a charity fundraiser at the National Portrait Gallery with her new beau.
But both Edo and Beatrice’s previous relationships weren’t all plain-sailing.
The tycoon popped the question to Dara, the mother of his two-year-old son Wolfie, in 2015, but the romance wasn’t to last.
The source said: “Almost overnight, Chinese-American fiancee Dora became Edo’s ex fiancee.
“The talented Harvard-educated architect had been planning her idyllic wedding to Edo but was unceremoniously dumped.”
Bea and Edo began their romance even though he was still sharing his London home with Dara.
Meanwhile, Beatrice has been single since splitting from her American boyfriend Dave Clark in 2016 after a decade together.
The split was thought to be over the princess’s keenness to wed.
Descended from Italian nobility, Edo is a Count whose father Alex was an Olympic skier in the early 1970s.
Edo has been a family friend of the Yorks for years and when his stepfather Christopher Shale – a close friend of former Prime Minister David Cameron – died in 2011 at Glastonbury, Andy, Sarah, Bea and Eugenie all went to the funeral.
The couple’s wedding next year will be the fourth high-profile wedding ceremony in under two years.
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