Beatrice Borromeo has been named the “most stylish European royal” by the Society Bible Tatler because she “cuts an elegant figure wherever she goes – whether it’s a red carpet, a royal performance or just yacht hopping.”
The 37-year-old married into Monaco’s glamorous royal family in 2015, when she married Pierre Casiraghi, the youngest child of Princess Caroline and grandson of the late Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly.
She’s a former journalist – and it’s a journalistic venture that has brought her to the spotlight in recent months: a Netflix documentary about a sensational murder case involving Prince Victor Emmanuel of Savoy, the heir to the Italian throne.
Beatrice, the daughter of Italian aristocrat Don Carlo Ferdinando, was photographed last week at an event to celebrate the centenary of Prince Rainier III’s birth.
Beatrice Borromeo photographed on Lake Maggiore on her wedding day with husband Pierre Casiraghi, grandson of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier
Beatrice falls in red at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Beatrice on the day after her wedding in the Borromean Islands in August 2015
The handbag leaves no doubt as to who she is – or who she just married
Beatrice models at the Blumarine Ready to Wear show in 2004
Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco in 1956 when she retired from acting to marry the Prince. In 1982, she was tragically killed in a car accident.
As an apparent tribute to her late grandmother, who was a lifelong fan of the French fashion house, Beatrice was dressed in a chic pink Dior belted shirt dress at the event.
Over the course of her 50 years in the public eye, Princess Grace has been pictured wearing dozens of couture Christian Dior dresses, including the famous black and white gown she wore to the 1954 premiere of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, one of her most famous films. .
Both Beatrice and Pierre are now brand ambassadors, with Beatrice starring in a glossy black and white campaign earlier this year to promote her £6,000 Lady Dior handbag.
Before marrying Pierre, Beatrice, whose family owns the Borromean Islands in Lake Maggiore near Milan, along with land in the Lombardy and Piedmont countryside, worked as a newspaper and broadcast journalist in her native Italy.
On her wedding day in 2015 — dubbed the “chicest of the summer” by Vogue — she wore four couture dresses, two by Valentino for a civil service in Monaco and two by Armani Prive for a religious service on Lake Maggiore.
Her family still owns the Roca Borromeo castle where the reception took place.
She and Pierre have since become parents to two sons, Stefano, five, and Francesco, four.
She has now focused on documentary making and recently debuted the three-episode series The King Who Never Was on Netflix.
The series focuses on an event in August 1978 that remains a mystery to this day.
Rocca Borromeo Castle, still owned by Beatrice’s family, where the reception took place
Another see-through wedding photo at Lake Maggiore in Italy, 2015
Beatrice, right, is seen with Princess Charlene at the 2014 Rose Ball in Monte Carlo,
Prince Victor Emmanuel of Savoy, the last heir to the Italian throne, was vacationing at his summer residence on the island of Cavallo, France, when, enraged by a group of Italians partying on nearby boats, he pulled out a rifle.
He shot a young German tourist, Dirk Hamer, who was sleeping on the desk of one of the boats.
Victor Emmanuel was acquitted of murder charges in November 1991, following a protracted court case brought by Dirk’s sister, Birgit Hamer – who was one of Beatrice’s mother Paola Marzotto’s oldest friends.
The prince was only convicted of a firearms offense and received a six-month suspended prison sentence.
“(The story) has been part of my family for as long as I can remember,” Beatrice said.
In 2011, while working for an Italian newspaper, she leaked a secretly taped video of Victor Emmanuel allegedly confessing to the murder.
Victor, or Vittorio, Emanuele is part of the House of Savoy, which ruled Italy from 1861 to 1946, when they were expelled by the Italian Republic.
For her next project, Beatrice is making a film about the origins of the family she married into: the Grimaldis of Monaco, Europe’s longest-standing royal family.
“My company Astrea Films produces the film about the conquest of the fortress of Monaco by the Grimaldi family in the Middle Ages,” she said.
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