Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi weren’t the only young couple to find their 2020 wedding ceremony disrupted and postponed due to Covid-19.
However, rather than push the wedding over to the next year – the choice of many in their situation – they opted to have a more intimate ceremony a few weeks later.
The wedding, originally scheduled for May 29, took place on July 17 with only close family in attendance.
And they exchanged the prestigious Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace, the original site, for the Royal Chapel of All Saints, in the grounds of their childhood home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at the Royal Lodge in Windsor on July 17, 2020 in a socially distanced ceremony attended by their immediate family
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stand next to Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi outside the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, following their wedding
The ceremony was attended by around 20 guests, including the late Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh plus parents and siblings.
For her big day, Beatrice wore a vintage Norman Hartnell dress borrowed from her late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who had first worn the dress to a 1961 state dinner in Rome.
The dress was made with Peau De Soie taffeta in shades of ivory, complete with organza puff sleeves added for Beatrice.
It was beautifully finished with intricate diamond embellishment to the bodice.
The dress was remodeled by Her Majesty’s dresser, Angela Kelly, and royal dress designer Stewart Parvin.
The accessories are also recycled.
The princess topped off her ensemble with the Queen Mary fringed diamond tiara, which Queen Elizabeth had worn on November 20, 1947 to marry Prince Philip.
Beatrice paired the dainty bridal attire with a pair of champagne satin Valentino heels, which she had worn to Charles and Camilla’s wedding in Wales in 2011.
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 borrowed from her late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi stand in the doorway of The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge after their wedding
The church was decorated with pink and white delphiniums, roses, waxflower and hydrangeas from Windsor Great Park.
While Beatrice carried a bouquet of hanging jasmine, light pink and cream sweet peas, ivory royal china spray roses, pink O’Hara garden roses, pink wax flowers, baby pink astilbe flowers (false goat’s beard), and myrtle twigs.
Like royal brides before her, Beatrice sent her bridal bouquet to be laid at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.
During the 30-minute service, the mothers of the bride and groom, 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 the marriage of real ghosts…).
Edoardo’s son, three-year-old Wolfie, played the roles of best man and pageboy.
Prince Andrew walked down the aisle with his daughter Beatrice, but he wasn’t in any of the photos shared with the public.
Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in 1962, wearing the same Peau De Soie taffeta gown by Norman Hartnell that Princess Beatrice wore to her wedding
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding at St. George’s Chapel in October 2018 cost UK taxpayers £2 million
It was all in stark contrast to her sister Princess Eugenie’s lavish ceremony in 2018.
While there is no confirmed figure for the wedding, Princess Beatrice’s wedding is believed to have cost taxpayers nothing.
British taxpayers’ money has generally been spent on the security costs associated with 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 state coffers about £2 million.