Inside Princess Beatrice’s tumultuous love life before she settled down with property developer beau Edoardo Mozzi
PRINCESS Beatrice had a tumultuous love life before she settled down with her property developer beau.
The eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson has lived a fairly “normal” life for a royal – including ups and downs with spouses and heartbreak.
Before deciding to marry now-husband Edoardo Mozzi and having two kids, Beatrice found herself at the centre of many scandals due to her pick in men.
At just 17 years old, the royal met her first love Paolo Liuzzo.
Liuzzo and Beatrice’s relationship was revealed after he was invited on her family’s ski holiday in Verbier, Switzerland, in February 2006.
Four years earlier he had been charged with the manslaughter of a student during a drunken brawl in Massachusetts.
The charge had later been downgraded to assault and battery, and Liuzzo only served a 100-hour community service sentence.
Regardless, Fergie gave the couple’s relationship the thumbs up, saying: “We all have our own journeys and have to learn our way but Beatrice is a sensible girl, soon to be 18, with many friends including Paolo.”
But the publicity surrounding his royal romance led to him being hauled back to the US for flouting the conditions of his probation, since he was only allowed to travel abroad for work.
He had his three-year probation extended by six months as punishment and Beatrice publicly ended the romance.
Paolo later said: “It was a stupid fist fight and if I had gone to trial, my lawyers were certain I’d have been found innocent.
“But if it came out that me and Bea were dating, it wouldn’t be good for her image or Sarah’s so everyone was trying to keep our relationship a secret.”
Paolo has since passed away due to a drug overdose.
His shock death in a Miami hotel came as insiders said he’d struggled with drugs and racked up debts with loan sharks over his gambling.
Beatrice was told the news just weeks after her mum Sarah Ferguson was diagnosed with skin cancer.
The Sun exclusively revealed Paolo’s body was flown back to his native Long Island, New York, for a funeral on February 16.
After Beatrice’s split from Liuzzo, she spent most of her 20s dating Virgin Galactic executive Dave Clark.
Fergie issued her approval for their coupling, saying: “I call him Mr Smiley because he smiles and he’s happy. I love Dave.”
Beatrice enrolled on a finance course in San Francisco to be close to her boyfriend after he got a job at Uber.
Despite whispers of wedding bells marriage never happened and they split by mutual agreement after ten years, in 2016.
Single Bea was then pictured with fitness trainer James Williams and CNBC host Wilfred Frost, son of journalist David Frost.
But each time suggestions of romance were shot down.
In 2018 she was confirmed to be dating Edo Mapelli Mozzi, a property developer and member of the Italian nobility.
Edo, who had a son from a former relationship, swept Beatrice off her feet and proposed marriage.
The pandemic meant they cancelled plans for a wedding at St James’s Palace, in May 2020.
Instead, they enjoyed an intimate Covid-safe wedding in July 2020, witnessed by only a handful of guests including the late Queen and Prince Philip at All Saints Chapel, Windsor.
They now have homes in London and Oxfordshire, where Edo was raised.