Princess Beatrice is pregnant with her first child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The statement read:
“Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are very pleased to announce that they are expecting a baby in autumn of this year.
“The Queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.”
It will be the second grandchild for the Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, after the birth of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s son August in February.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall’s official Twitter account retweeted Beatrice’s pregnancy announcement, which was originally posted on the Queen’s account. They were also one of the first to like the post, which featured a photo of Beatrice and her husband Edoardo on their wedding day.
The Princess, 32, tied the knot with property developer Edoardo at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge Windsor in July 2020.
Ninth in line to the throne, Beatrice will move to 10th place when Harry and Meghan’s baby arrives.
The princess’s son or daughter will be 11th in line to the throne when he or she is born, which means that Beatrice’s younger sister Princess Eugenie will move down to 12th place.
Eugenie and Jack’s son August will also further down in the line of succession to 13th-in-line.
Meanwhile, the Queen will welcome the arrival of her twelfth great-grandchild when Beatrice and Edoardo’s child is born. The monarch is already a great-grandmother to Savannah and Isla Phillips, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, Mia, Lena and Lucas Tindall, Archie Harrison-Mountbatten-Windsor and August Brooksbank.
This year alone will see Her Majesty welcome four great-grandchildren in total with the births of Princess Eugenie and Jack’s son August in February, Mike and Zara Tindall’s son Lucas born in March, as well as the Duchess of Sussex’s baby girl who is due to arrive this summer.
