Buckingham Palace announced today that Beatrice gave birth to a daughter weighing 6 pounds and 2 ounces just before midnight on Saturday at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London. The palace said, “Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are delighted to announce the safe arrival of their daughter.” They went on, “The new baby’s grandparents and great-grandparents have all been informed and are delighted with the news. The family would like to thank all the staff at the hospital for their wonderful care. “Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well, and the couple is looking forward to introducing their daughter to her big brother Christopher Woolf.” Christopher, or ‘Wolfie’, is Edoardo’s 5-year-old son from his previous marriage with architect Dara Huang. The birth of Beatrice’s baby has bumped Beatrice’s sister Princess Eugeniefurther down the line of succession—Beatrice and Edoardo’s child replaces her as 11th in line to the throne, while Eugenie’s seven-month-old son August Brooksbank has found himself in spot #13. Beatrice and Edoardo were married in an intimate ‘pandemic wedding’ in July 2020, which was attended by a handful of their family members including the princess’s grandmotherQueen Elizabeth II. For the wedding, Beatrice wore the astoundingly dramatic Queen Mary Fringe Tiara, featuring diamond-encrusted rods emanating like a halo from the wearer’s head, and which was worn by the queen on her own wedding day when she married Prince Philip in 1947. (It also served as the then-Princess Elizabeth’s “something borrowed”, having been loaned to her by her mother.) Beatrice also chose to honor her grandmother in her choice of vintage diamanté-encrusted dress, a dreamy ivory number that the queen wore to the 1967 State Opening of Parliament. In May 2021, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child together. Next up,James Middleton Got Married in the South of France—and Duchess Kate, Prince William and Their Kids Were There!
