Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi were not the only young couple to have their 2020 wedding ceremony interrupted and postponed due to covid-19.
However, rather than delay the wedding until the following year, the choice of many in their situation, they opted to have a more intimate ceremony just a few weeks later.
The wedding, originally scheduled for May 29, took place on July 17 with only close family in attendance.
And they swapped the prestigious Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, the original location, for the All Saints Chapel Royal, in the grounds of his family’s childhood home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on July 17, 2020 at the Royal Lodge in Windsor in a socially distanced ceremony attended by her immediate family.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi outside the Royal Chapel of All Saints at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, after their wedding.
The ceremony was attended by around 20 guests, including the late Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, as well as parents and siblings.
For her big day, Beatrice wore a vintage Norman Hartnell gown, on loan from her late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who first wore the gown to a state dinner in Rome in 1961.
The gown was made of ivory-hued Peau De Soie taffeta, complete with puffed organza sleeves, which had been added for Beatrice.
It was beautifully finished with intricate diamond embellishments on the bodice.
The gown had been refashioned by Her Late Majesty’s dressmaker, Angela Kelly, and royal dress designer, Stewart Parvin.
The accessories were also recycled.
The princess finished off her ensemble with the Queen Mary diamond fringed tiara, which Queen Elizabeth had worn to marry Prince Philip on November 20, 1947.
Beatrice teamed the ornate bridal wear with a pair of champagne satin Valentino heels, which she had worn to Charles and Camilla Wales’s 2011 wedding.
The socially distanced event at the Royal Chapel of All Saints was the first closed-door royal wedding in 235 years.
For her big day, Beatrice wore a vintage Norman Hartnell gown, on loan from her late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi stand at the entrance to the Royal Chapel of All Saints at the Royal Lodge after their wedding.
The church was decorated with pink and white delphiniums, roses, wax flower and hydrangeas from Windsor Great Park.
While Beatrice carried a bouquet of dangling jasmine, pale pink and cream peas, royal porcelain ivory roses, O’Hara pink garden roses, pink wax flowers, baby pink astilbe (fake goat’s beard) flowers, and twigs of myrtle.
Like royal brides before her, Beatrice sent her bridal bouquet to be laid in the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.
During the 30-minute service, the bride and groom’s mothers, Sarah Ferguson and Nikki Williams-Ellis, read the happy couple’s favorite poems: I Carry You in My Heart by EE Cummings and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 (Don’t Let Me Go to marriage of true minds…).
Edoardo’s three-year-old son Wolfie played the roles of best man and page boy.
Prince Andrew walked his daughter Beatrice down the aisle, but did not appear in any of the photos shared with the public.
Queen Elizabeth II arrived at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in 1962, wearing the same Norman Hartnell Peau De Soie taffeta dress worn by Princess Beatrice at her wedding.
The wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank at St George’s Chapel in October 2018 cost the British taxpayer £2 million.
It was all a stark contrast to her sister Princess Eugenie’s lavish ceremony in 2018.
While no confirmed figure for the wedding has been reported, Princess Beatrice’s wedding is believed to have cost taxpayers nothing.
British taxpayers’ money has generally gone towards the security cost involved in royal weddings with the Palace paying for the more private aspects of the day.
Eugenie’s wedding, which involved a carriage ride through Windsor, cost the public some £2 million.
