Pregnant Princess Beatrice Makes First Appearance Since Baby News at Costume Party in London

Mar. 15, 2025

Princess Beatrice at the Children Firehouse 10-year anniversary party in London on Oct. 3, 2024.Photo:RV/JP/TM / BACKGRID

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On Oct. 3, Princess Beatrice, 36, was photographed at the Chiltern Firehouse in London for the venue’s 10th anniversary bash — a costume party!King Charles' niece was seen carrying a white Venetian-style masquerade mask and wore an all-black outfit with an oversize bow tied over her growing bump.

The “Love Me Like You Do” singer is alongtime friendof Beatrice and her sister,Princess Eugenie, and performed atKate MiddletonandPrince William’s royal wedding reception in 2011 as well as at Eugenie andJack Brooksbank’s wedding celebration in 2018.

Princess Beatrice at the Children Firehouse 10-year anniversary party in London on Oct. 3, 2024.RV/JP/TM / BACKGRID

It’s been an exciting week for Princess Beatrice, as the palace announced on Oct. 1 that she and her husbandEdoardo Mapelli Mozziare expecting their second child together. Princess Beatrice and Edo, 40,married in July 2020and are parents to daughterSienna, 3, andChristopher Woolf, 8, Edo’s son from a previous relationship.

“Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are very pleased to announce that they are expecting their second child together early in the new year; a sibling for Wolfie and Sienna,” Buckingham Palace said in the statement. “His Majesty The King has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.”

The second shot was especially memorable as it marked the first image the palace has released of Sienna, who was born in September 2021. Princess Beatrice doesn’t maintain a public social media presence, and she and her husband have never shown their daughter’s face online. However, royal watchers were charmed that the couple put their kids at the heart of their announcement and that the palace used Christopher Woolf’s family nickname, Wolfie.

Edo descends from Italian aristocracy, and Beatrice became an Italian “Contessa” and “Nobile Donna,” or noblewoman, when they got married. As the eldest son of Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, he is expected to inherit his family’s ancestral seat, the 18th-century Villa Mapelli Mozzi palazzo in northern Italy.

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at the Art of Wishes gala at The OWO Raffles Hotel in London on Oct. 9, 2023.Dave Benett/Getty

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“Edoardo is the only male descendent taking the family into the next generation,” Alessandro told theDaily Mailin 2020 before his son married the British princess. “He is a count — his wife will be a countess automatically, and any of their children will be counts or nobile donna.”

Speaking about the bond that Beatrice and Edo share, he added, “They are very suited to each other and have known each other for a long time. I’ve never seen him so happy.”

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source: people.com