Princess Beatricewill marryEdoardo Mapelli Mozziin the intimate surroundings of a chapel in St. James’s Palace, Buckingham Palace announced Friday.
The palace confirmed that the couple will wed on May 29, which PEOPLEreported earlier this week. Their reception will follow at Buckingham Palace and will take place in the gardens ofQueen Elizabeth‘s home in central London.
The Chapel Royal is also where bothPrince Georgeand his younger brother, Prince Louis, were christened and where Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg 180 years ago, in February 1840.
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Princess Beatrice.Princess Eugenie
PEOPLE also confirms that Beatrice’s father, Prince Andrew, will walk his daughter down the aisle despite thescandal surrounding his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinthat caused him to “step back” from his royal duties.
Beatrcie and Mozzi will not have a carriage procession (likeKate Middleton,Meghan MarkleandPrincess Eugeniehad on their wedding days), which “is keeping with their wishes for a more low-key” affair, says a palace source.
The ceremony inside the Chapel Royal will also not be televised, which is something the couple had decided from the start.
The wedding celebration will take place around the same time of the year that the palace holds a series of garden parties on its vast lawns.
Despite the grandest of surroundings, the wedding will be “low-key,” a friend told PEOPLE, and Beatrice will involve a special pageboy in the ceremony — her future stepson.
A sourcetold PEOPLEthat the young son of Beatrice’s fiancé will take part in theirupcoming royal wedding.
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Mozzi shares his son, who was born in 2016, with his former girlfriend Dara Huang, an architect and designer.
“He is very much part of their life,” Beatrice’s friend previously told PEOPLE. “Beatrice has embraced the child as part of her life from the outset.”
Like her royal cousins,Prince Williamand Prince Harry before her, Beatrice is asking well-wishers to not give them gifts but to follow and find out more about the work ofBig Change, which Beatrice co-founded ten years ago, andCricket Builds Hope— which uses the sport to help build social improvements in Rwanda, Africa.
source: people.com
