Reports that Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are facing marriage difficulties in the wake of her father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor‘s arrest “are not true at all”, friends of the couple have exclusively told HELLO!
It comes amid speculation about the state of the couple’s relationship, with a report over the weekend alleging that they were navigating a period of “distance” from one another.
Edoardo, a property developer, has, in recent weeks, taken a number of trips overseas for work, including to Palm Beach and Fisher Island, off the coast of Miami. Beatrice, meanwhile, is believed to have remained in London with their children, Sienna, three, and Athena, one.
However, friends have now shut down any rumours of relationship issues, insisting that the couple, like many others, are “balancing” physical distance because of work with family life.
A friend of Beatrice and Edo’s tells HELLO!: “The only thing Bea and Edo are navigating are their busy jobs and looking after their children! They’ve both had recent stints working abroad and like so many working parents, have balancing work with looking after the kids.
“Recent reports that things aren’t good between them are not true at all. Things are great between them and the only distance between them recently has been physical distance because of work!“
A united front
Over the weekend, Beatrice and Edoardo were seen out in Notting Hill for a date at Eeel Sushi Bar. The couple put on a united front amid rumours that their marriage was “in trouble”, reportedly spending two hours inside before being picked up in a Porsche.
It came amid reports that their relationship “had not been great for a while”, as reported in the Mail on Sunday over the weekend.
© POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesThe paper claimed that Edoardo had hoped to keep his business, Banda Property, separate from the scandal surrounding the York family after Andrew’s arrest last month.
Beatrice, meanwhile, has been keeping a low profile since the arrest. In late January, she was spotted out riding in Windsor with her disgraced father and daughter, Sienna, shortly before he was exiled from Royal Lodge.
What is happening to Beatrice and Eugenie?
Though they are not working royals, Princess Beatrice and her sister, Princess Eugenie, often attend big events in the royal calendar, joining senior members of the Firm at Christmas and at Easter. For example, they take part in carriage rides at Royal Ascot and attend garden parties at Buckingham Palace, while both have grace-and-favour homes at royal palaces.
However, since Andrew’s arrest in February, the sisters have kept a very low profile. It has now widely been reported that neither will be part of the carriage procession or join the family in the royal box at Ascot in June. Notably, they were not seen at Cheltenham races this month, though family members such as Queen Camilla, Princess Anne and Zara Tindall were seen watching the action.
Royal author Phil Dampier and Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and a biographer of Sarah Ferguson, told HELLO! this month that although the Princesses remain cherished family members, they are too “tarnished” to appear at royal events until after the summer, and may be excluded for the rest of the year.
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