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‘Meet Princess Beatrice’s high-achieving new in-laws!’ and ‘Who are Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’s parents?’ the tabloid newspapers jingled following the low-key, private wedding of Princess Beatrice, the Queen’s granddaughter, to Edo Mapelli Mozzi on Friday 17 July at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor.
Thanks to the pandemic, Princess Beatrice’s original wedding plans that were set for the end of May were called off. A new date wasn’t officially set but on the afternoon of Friday 17 July the
Sun leaked a story that Bea and Edo had gone and done it in private. Because of the ongoing restrictions, it couldn’t be as planned, it was simply a small private ceremony with their closest family members. Guests included Bea’s grandparents, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, her parents, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, and Edo’s parents, his mother, Nikki Shale MBE and her husband since 2016, the eminent sculptor
Victor Walker received the honour in 2015 A veteran of two vital Second World War operations has said receiving France’s highest honour should ‘remind others of the thousands of young men who did not return home’. Victor Walker, 90, from Loughton, served in the Royal Navy both during the Normandy landings of D-Day and in the Arctic Convoys, delivering essential supplies to the besieged USSR. One-and-a-half years after the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Mr Walker has received the Legion of Honour for his “steadfast involvement in the liberation of France during the Second World War . It has been added to a raft others, including the esteemed Ushakov Medal from the Russian state for veterans of the Arctic Convoy.