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{{Short description|British businessman (born 1983)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
| image              =
| caption            =
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1983|11|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[London]], England<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007''</ref><ref>''[[The Times]]'' (22 November 1983). Page 26</ref>
| education          = {{Ubl|[[Dragon School]]|[[Radley College]]}}
| alma mater         = [[University of Edinburgh]]
| occupation         = Property developer
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Princess Beatrice of York]]|17 July 2020}}
| partner            = [[Dara Huang]] <br>(2015–2018)
| children           = 2
| parents            = {{Ubl|[[Alex Mapelli-Mozzi]]|Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows}}
| relatives          = [[Robert Burrows (politician)|Sir Robert Abraham Burrows]] (great-grandfather)
}}
'''Edoardo Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi''' (born 19 November 1983) is a British property developer descended from [[Italian nobility]]. He is the founder and chief executive of Banda Property, a property development and interior design company. He became a member of the [[British royal family]] in 2020 when he married [[Princess Beatrice]], the elder daughter of [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York]], and a niece of [[King Charles III]]. He has a daughter with Beatrice and a son from a previous relationship with architect [[Dara Huang]].
==Background==
[[File:Conte Mapelli Mozzi coat of arms.png|thumb|150px|left|Arms of the [[Count]]s Mapelli Mozzi, (1913)]]
[[File:Mapellipozzi2.JPG|thumb|262px|[[Villa Mapelli Mozzi]], Edoardo's family ancestral home in [[Lombardy]], [[Italy]]]]
Mapelli Mozzi was born at the [[Portland Hospital]] in the [[West End of London|West End]] of [[London]].<ref>''[[The Times]]'' (22 November 1983), page 26.</ref> He is the son of [[Alex Mapelli-Mozzi|Alessandro "Alex" Mapelli-Mozzi]], a [[Great Britain at the 1972 Winter Olympics|British Olympian]] and member of a formerly titled [[Italian noble family]] whose [[ancestral seat]] is [[Villa Mapelli Mozzi]] in the [[Bergamo province]] of Italy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Telegraph Announcements 2012|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/engagements/145764/mr-t.-yeomans-and-miss-n.-mapelli-mozzi |access-date=15 March 2019 |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited |quote=The engagement is announced between Tod, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Yeomans, of Winchester, Hampshire, and Natalia, stepdaughter of the late Mr Christopher Shale and daughter of Mrs Christopher Shale, of Over Worton, Oxfordshire, and Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, of La Garde Freinet, France.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Foussianes |first1=C |title=Who Is Princess Beatrice's New Boyfriend, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a25237503/edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-facts/ |magazine=Town and Country Magazine |publisher=Hearst Magazine Media, Inc |year= 2019 |access-date=13 March 2019 |quote= ..at London's National Portrait Gallery...Mozzi's father is Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Spranklen |first=Annabelle|date=23 August 2019 |title=Meet Italian millionaire Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi: Princess Beatrice's boyfriend |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/princess-beatrice-new-boyfriend-edoardo-mapelli-mozzi |website=Tatler|publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |access-date=18 September 2019 |quote=despite his Italian heritage, Mapelli-Mozzi is fully integrated into British society, having attended Radley College and Edinburgh University.}}</ref>
The [[BBC]] states that Mapelli Mozzi is a [[count]];<ref>{{cite news |title=Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53445109 |access-date=17 July 2020 |work=BBC News|date=17 July 2020|quote=Mr Mapelli Mozzi is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis and is a count himself.}}</ref> although titles of [[nobility]] are not officially recognized in the Italian Republic, they can still be used out of [[Courtesy title|courtesy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senato.it/documenti/repository/istituzione/costituzione_inglese.pdf |title=Constitution of the Italian Republic, Transitional and Final Provisions, XIV (page 42)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kretschmer |first1=A. |title=Princess Beatrice revelation: Heartbreaking reason why Edo cannot take aristocratic title |url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1186121/princess-beatrice-news-edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-heartbreaking-title-count-royal-family-spt |access-date=15 October 2019 |publisher=UK Daily Express |date=4 October 2019 |quote=They (Italian titles) may still be used as a courtesy, but have no legal standing.}}</ref> The hereditary title of [[Italian nobility|Count]] in the [[Kingdom of Italy]] was awarded to  Mapelli Mozzi's family in 1913 by [[Victor Emmanuel III|King Victor Emmanuel III]], in particular to all legitimate male-line descendants bearing the surname of the noble family of Mozzi, which was previously incorporated into the noble family of Mapelli.<ref>{{cite book |title=Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana, M-Z |date=2000–2004|publisher=Collegio araldico |location=Rome|pages=44–45 |edition=22 Volume 26 |url=https://11819664674116835390.googlegroups.com/attach/920400e854234/Mapelli.jpeg?part=0.1&view=1&vt=ANaJVrGPOj8QckhSjqiSgJBZMrJ5MVfh5RmPNyFSDT2ZN30iqxV1g3tdVup3gchQXNlVHHMasfwMlUE7ockUt3OdjYhnqOsy75kS8OBuI6qNGXqU7loIQ34 |access-date=1 October 2019 |quote=[Translated from Italian to English]{{Snd}} The title of Conte [Co.] was created in 1913 in the Kingdom of Italy by King Victor Emmanuele III to all male descendants imposing the surname and noble family of Mozzi and is incorporated into the family of Mapelli&nbsp;... *Mozzi (Mapelli-Mozzi)&nbsp;... Co. Alessandro, n. 17 lug 1951 sp. 18 March 1978 Niky Durrows da cui: (a) Natalia, n. a Londra 28 ag. 1981; (b) Co. Edoardo, n. a Londra 19 November 1983}}</ref>
Mapelli Mozzi's mother is Nicola "Nikki" Williams-Ellis [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (née Nicola Diana Burrows), paternal granddaughter of businessman and Liberal party politician [[Robert Burrows (politician)|Sir Robert Abraham Burrows]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Robert Abraham Burrows (1884–1964), Businessman |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person?LinkID=mp86086#qcom10724 |publisher=National Portrait Gallery (London) |access-date=21 July 2020 |quote=Sir Robert Abraham Burrows is the father of Robert David Burrows whose daughter is Nicola Diana Burrows (b. 1956) who was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 2016.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Elliot|last=Ball|url=https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/who-princess-beatrices-husband-story-5948220|title=Who is Princess Beatrice's husband? The story behind Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi|work=[[The Herald (Plymouth)]]|date=21 September 2021|access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref> Nicola was later married to businessman and Conservative politician [[Christopher Shale]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clavé Almeida|first1=Martín|last2=Mapelli Mozzi|first2=Carlotta |date=1984|title=La famiglia Mapelli Mozzi, mille anni di storia|url=https://www.academia.edu/39395284|location=Milano |page=69}}</ref> In 2017, she married for the third time, this time to a sculptor [[David Williams-Ellis]].<ref name="BBC2">{{cite news |title=Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi: Who is Princess Beatrice's husband? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49843830 |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=BBC News|date=17 July 2020}}</ref> Mapelli Mozzi has an older sister, Natalia Alice Yeomans (born 1981),<ref>{{cite web |title=Country Life|volume=199 |issue=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5NMAAAAYAAJ&q=Mapelli+++Mozzi |date=13 October 2005 |quote=Countess Natalia Mapelli Mozzi, aged 24, is the daughter of Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, of St Antonin du Var, France, and of Mrs Christopher Shale, of Hundley House. Her brother, Count Edoardo, is...}}</ref> and a younger half-brother, Albemarle "Alby" Shale (born 1991).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8600074/David-Camerons-friend-Christopher-Shale-dies-at-Glastonbury-after-Downing-Street-call.html|title=David Cameron's friend Christopher Shale dies at Glastonbury after Downing Street call|last=Hughes|first=Mark|date=26 June 2011|access-date=26 September 2019|newspaper=The Telegraph}}</ref>
==Career==
Mapelli Mozzi attended the [[Dragon School]] in Oxford, then [[Radley College]] in Oxfordshire, before obtaining an [[Master of Arts (Scotland)|M.A.]] in Politics at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name=nyt/>
At the age of 23, with the support of his family,<ref name=nyt/> he started Banda, a property development and interior design company, which claims to develop homes in "undervalued" parts of London.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/realestate/london-luxury-property-undervalued-neighborhoods.html|title=Creating Luxury in London's Undervalued Neighborhoods|first=Peter|last=Wilson|date=2 September 2019|access-date=8 October 2019|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> This has been challenged by property experts on [[Twitter]] and ''[[Forbes]]'', who argue that "there is nothing undervalued in [[Notting Hill]]", where Mapelli Mozzi's latest project is located, and describe the district as "a super prime residential destination".<ref name=forbes>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/emanuelemidolo/2019/09/04/sorry-nyt-there-is-nothing-undervalued-in-notting-hill/#700cefdb636f|title=Sorry, NYT, There Is Nothing 'Undervalued' In Notting Hill|first=Emanuele|last=Midolo|date=4 September 2019|access-date=8 October 2019|newspaper=Forbes}}</ref>
Mapelli Mozzi holds directorships in a number of companies, some of them with his mother, Nikki Williams-Ellis, and his brother-in-law, Tod Yeomans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/search/officers?q=edoardo+mapelli+mozzi|title=Companies House|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|access-date=26 September 2019}}</ref> Ahead of the [[2016 London mayoral election]], Mapelli Mozzi wrote an article for ''[[Property Week]]'', urging the future mayor to insist on redevelopment projects in central London. He has also criticised politicians [[Andrea Leadsom]] and [[Jeremy Corbyn]].<ref name="BBC2"/>
===Cricket Builds Hope===
[[File:GCS Drone Shot-YT.jpg|thumb|262px|[[The Gahanga Cricket Stadium]]]]
Mapelli Mozzi is a co-founder of the British-Rwandan charity "Cricket Builds Hope", which aims to use [[cricket]] as "a tool for positive social change" in [[Rwanda]], [[East Africa]].<ref name="BBC2"/> Previously known as the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation (RCSF), the charity was founded in 2011 to build Rwanda's first grass wicket cricket ground, now known as [[Gahanga International Cricket Stadium]].<ref name=rwanda>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketbuildshope.org/about|title=About|website=Cricket Builds Hope|access-date=26 September 2019|archive-date=26 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926230438/https://www.cricketbuildshope.org/about|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mapelli Mozzi's stepfather Christopher Shale (1954–2001), British businessman and a Conservative politician came up with the idea for the charity but died before he could get it off the ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2017/nov/18/willow-healing-for-scars-of-the-past-1704836.html|title=Willow healing for scars of the past|website=The New Indian Express|access-date=26 September 2019}}</ref> Shale's family and friends set up the foundation after his death; Mapelli Mozzi's maternal half-brother, Albemarle "Alby" Shale (born 1991), is on the board of trustees.<ref name=rwanda/> There are six charity's patrons. They are: [[Jonathan Agnew]], [[Brian Lara]], [[Heather Knight (cricketer)|Heather Knight]], [[Ebony Rainford-Brent]], [[Sam Billings]] and [[Makhaya Ntini]].<ref name=rwanda/> In 2012, Mapelli Mozzi cycled {{convert|100|km}} overnight in London in the Nightrider Challenge to raise funds for the Cricket Builds Hope foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=EdoardoMapelliMozzi-1&pageUrl=2&d-49489-p=2|title=RCSF Nightrider{{Snd}} Edo Mapelli Mozzi|website=uk.virginmoneygiving.com|access-date=26 September 2019}}</ref>
==Personal life==
[[File:Count_Edoardo_Mapelli_Mozzi_%26_Princess_Beatrice,_Countess_Edoardo_Mapelli_Mozzi,_Joint_Coat_of_Arms.png|thumb|262px|[[Arms of alliance]] of Edoardo Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Princess Beatrice of York]]
Mapelli Mozzi was engaged to American architect [[Dara Huang]] until 2018. They have a son Christopher Woolf "Wolfie", born in 2016.<ref name="Tyzack">{{cite news|last1=Tyzack|first1=A.|date=26 September 2019|title=Another royal wedding! Meet Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, the man who has charmed Princess Beatrice|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/meet-edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-dashing-developer-has-charmed-princess/|access-date=27 September 2019}}</ref>
In 2018, Mapelli Mozzi began a relationship with [[Princess Beatrice|Princess Beatrice of York]], whom he has known since childhood. His family have been close friends with her parents, [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York]], and [[Sarah, Duchess of York]], for decades.<ref name="Tyzack" />
In March 2019, Beatrice attended a fundraising event at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London]], accompanied by Mapelli Mozzi.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Foussianes |first1=C |title=Who Is Princess Beatrice's New Boyfriend, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a25237503/edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-facts/ |magazine=Town and Country Magazine |publisher=Hearst Magazine Media |year= 2019 |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref> Following his proposal in Italy,<ref>{{cite news|date=26 September 2019|title=Princess Beatrice engaged to property tycoon|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49839390|access-date=26 September 2019|quote=...got engaged in Italy earlier this month...}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Asmelash|first1=L.|date=26 September 2019|title=5 things you need to know about Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, who's about to marry into the British royal family|publisher=CNN|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/26/world/edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-about-trnd/index.html|access-date=1 October 2019|quote=Mapelli Mozzi popped the question earlier this month during a weekend away in Italy.}}</ref> the couple's engagement was announced on 26 September 2019.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|date=26 September 2019|title=Princess Beatrice engaged to property tycoon|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49839390|access-date=26 September 2019}}</ref> Mapelli Mozzi was reported to have designed the engagement ring along with British jeweller [[Shaun Leane (jeweller)|Shaun Leane]].<ref>{{cite web|title=See Princess Beatrice's Engagement Ring from Every Angle|url=https://people.com/royals/princess-beatrices-dazzling-engagement-ring-see-it-from-every-angle/|access-date=26 September 2019|website=PEOPLE.com}}</ref>
The couple intended to marry at the [[Chapel Royal]] of [[St James's Palace]] on 29 May 2020 but postponed the ceremony in light of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="BBC-Mar18">{{cite web|date=18 March 2020|title=Coronavirus: Princess Beatrice 'reviewing' wedding plans|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51951301|access-date=18 March 2020|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Beatrice to marry in May|url=https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/celebs/prince-andrews-daughter-princess-beatrice-to-marry-in-may/ar-BBZLhJa?li=BBKhQr3|access-date=8 February 2020|website=www.msn.com}}</ref> A [[Wedding of Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi|private wedding]] took place at the [[Royal Chapel of All Saints]] in [[Windsor Great Park]] on 17 July 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53445109 |access-date=17 July 2020 |work=BBC News|date=16 July 2020}}</ref>
Beatrice gave birth to their daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/uk/beatrice-baby-name-scli-intl-gbr/index.html|title=Princess Beatrice, Queen's granddaughter, pays tribute to monarch with baby's name|work=CNN|first=Sara|last=Spary|date=1 October 2021|accessdate=1 October 2021}}</ref> on 18 September 2021 at the [[Chelsea and Westminster Hospital]]. The child is currently 10th in the [[line of succession to the British throne]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58627115|title=Princess Beatrice gives birth to a girl|work=BBC News |date=20 September 2021|accessdate=20 September 2021}}</ref> They are expecting their second child in early 2025.<ref>{{cite news|title=Princess Beatrice pregnant with second child|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e977358vdo|work=BBC News |first=Tom|last=Bennett|date=1 October 2024|access-date=1 October 2024}}</ref>
The couple initially lived in a four-bedroom apartment at St James's Palace, but they reportedly moved to a manor home in the [[Cotswolds]] in late 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a42022235/princess-beatrice-moving-cotswolds-manor/|title=Princess Beatrice Is Moving to a Cotswolds Manor With 6-Feet-High Security Walls|work=Cosmopolitan|first=Mehera|last=Bonner|date=21 November 2022|accessdate=7 February 2023}}</ref> In an August 2021 interview, Beatrice revealed that Mapelli Mozzi, like her, is [[dyslexic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20210818119360/princess-beatrice-reveals-husband-edoardo-dyslexic/|title=Princess Beatrice shares unknown fact about husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi|work=Hello!|first=Ainhoa|last=Barcelona|date=18 August 2021|accessdate=18 August 2021}}</ref>
Mapelli Mozzi is active on social media, including [[Twitter]], where he has spoken against [[plastic pollution]] in the oceans and [[whaling in Japan]], and shared messages about [[Gun politics in the United States|gun control in the United States]].<ref name="BBC2"/> He has criticised British politicians [[Andrea Leadsom]] and [[Jeremy Corbyn]] in the past, and used the hashtag "[[Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign|ImWithHer]]" on Twitter on the night of the [[2016 United States presidential election]] to show his support for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref name="BBC2"/>
==Honours==
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!Date
!Appointment
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|6 February 2022
|[[Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal]]<ref>{{cite web |date=3 June 2022 |title=Platinum Jubilee |url=https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-arrives-for-the-lord-mayors-reception-news-photo/1400802996 |accessdate=4 June 2022 |work=Getty Images}}</ref>
|[[File:Queen_Elizabeth_II_Platinum_Jubilee_Medal.png|100x100px]]
|-
|6 May 2023
|[[King Charles III Coronation Medal]]<ref>{{cite web |date=2 June 2023 |title=Princess Beatrice Attends Wedding Banquet of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Jordan |url=https://royalportraitsgallery.com/home/princess-beatrice-attends-wedding-banquet-of-the-crown-prince-and-crown-princess-of-jordan |accessdate=4 June 2023 |work=royalportraitsgallery.com}}</ref>
|[[File:Coronation_of_Charles_III_Medal_ribbon.png|100x100px]]
|}
==Authored articles==
* {{cite web |last=Mapelli Mozzi |first=Edo |date=2 May 2016 |title= Mayoral election: without more homes 'Building for Londoners' policy will fall flat |url=https://www.propertyweek.com/comment/mayoral-election-without-more-homes-building-for-londoners-policy-will-fall-flat/5081782.article |website=Property Week}}
== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://bandaproperty.com/ Banda Property website]
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