Princess Beatrice of York

Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988), is a member of the British royal family.

She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York.

She is a niece of King Charles III.

Born fifth in line of succession to the British throne, she is now ninth.

Beatrice attended St George's School, Ascot, before studying at Goldsmiths College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in history.

She was briefly employed at the Foreign Office and Sony Pictures before joining software company Afiniti as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.

Beatrice also works privately with a number of charitable organisations, including the Teenage Cancer Trust and Outward Bound.

Princess Beatrice was born at 8:18 pm on 8 August 1988 at the Portland Hospital in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, and fifth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

She was baptised in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace on 20 December 1988, her godparents being Viscount Linley (her father's cousin, now the 2nd Earl of Snowdon); the Duchess of Roxburghe (now Lady Jane Dawnay); Peter Palumbo; Gabrielle Greenall; and Carolyn Cotterell.

Her name, an unexpected choice, was not announced until almost two weeks after her birth.

Her younger sister, Princess Eugenie, was born in 1990.

Beatrice's parents divorced amicably when she was seven years old and agreed to joint custody of their two children.

After the divorce, the Queen provided her parents with £1.4 million to set up a trust fund for her and Eugenie.

Beatrice and her sister frequently travelled abroad with one or both of their parents.

Beatrice began her early education at the independent Upton House School in Windsor, in 1991.

From there, she and her sister both attended the independent Coworth Park School (now Coworth Flexlands School) from 1995.

Beatrice continued her education at the independent St George's School in Ascot, where she was a pupil from 2000 to 2007.

She was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of seven and went public with the diagnosis in 2005.

She delayed sitting her GCSE exams for one year.

She remained at St George's to take her A-Levels, earning an 'A' in drama, a 'B' in history, and a 'B' in film studies.

She was elected Head Girl in her final year, and was a member of the school choir.

Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday with a masked ball at Windsor Castle in July 2006.

Nikolai von Bismarck took her official birthday portrait.

In September 2008, Beatrice started a three-year course studying for a BA in history and history of ideas at Goldsmiths, University of London.

During the summer of 2008, Beatrice obtained work experience as a sales assistant at Selfridges.

She also worked at the Foreign Office's press office for a period of time without receiving a salary.

It was also reported in 2008 that Beatrice was interested in pursuing a career at the Financial Times website.

Beatrice was the first member of the family to appear in a non-documentary film when she had a small, non-speaking role as an extra in The Young Victoria (2009), based on the accession and early reign of her ancestor Queen Victoria.

She graduated in 2011 with a 2:1 degree.

Beatrice and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh accompanied Queen Elizabeth II to the traditional Royal Maundy services on 5 April 2012 in York.

There, Beatrice interacted with parishioners, received flowers from the public, and assisted the Queen as she passed out the Maundy money to the pensioners.

For a while, she was a paid intern at Sony Pictures, but she resigned after the hacking incident that affected the company in late 2014.

In April 2015, it was reported that Beatrice had decided to move to New York City.

, Beatrice had a full-time job and split her time between London and New York City.

She is known as Beatrice York in her professional life and is Vice President of Partnerships and Strategy at Afiniti.

She is also in charge of an Afiniti programme to engage senior business chiefs around the world to support women in leadership.

She works with the programme through charity endeavours and speaking engagements.

In January 2022, it was reported that Beatrice had lost her taxpayer-funded police security in 2011, supposedly after her uncle Charles III (then Prince of Wales) intervened.

She married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, a property developer and English-born Italian noble, in 2020.

Their daughter, Sienna, was born in September 2021.