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Princess Beatrice's fiance

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edgeofheaven · 27/09/2019 02:37

Press is reporting that Beatrice's fiance Edoardo has a 2 year old son and was previously engaged to the baby's mother. Supposedly he was still living with the ex when he started dating Beatrice. I don't want to link to the Daily Mail but this all seems rather...surprising?

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CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 27/09/2019 08:16

How could they have been together 2 years if he was living with his ex?

But that explanation makes more sense.

TottieandMarchpane · 27/09/2019 08:17

Just read again. It said they had been together for 2 years but friends for many years.

That can’t be right. I thought his some was two. I think the tabloids are on a stirring mission.

TottieandMarchpane · 27/09/2019 08:17

Son. Not some.

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WeshMaGueule · 27/09/2019 08:18

If they've been together two years, since the son was a newborn, I'm afraid I'm going to have to hoik my bosom at them.

MonChatEstMagnifique · 27/09/2019 08:20

That can’t be right. I thought his some was two. I think the tabloids are on a stirring mission.

That's what it says, who knows. It's up to them.

The child could be almost 3 and they could have split when she was pregnant for all we know. It happens.

misspiggy19 · 27/09/2019 08:22

Trying to imagine the response to "AIBU for starting a relationship with a man who still lives with his (ex) partner and their baby" and for some reason don't think it would be so live and let live.

^This

AJPTaylor · 27/09/2019 08:26

I suspect it's a convenient moment to throw the light away from her father personally

MindyStClaire · 27/09/2019 08:32

I believe his ex is a high flying business woman in architecture and the boy is looked after by a nanny.

So a woman has a job and uses childcare? So bloody what?

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 27/09/2019 08:51

No fan of the Royals

However, on this occasion , I see nothing wrong been done here.
When I split from my now EXDH we shared a roof for a good few months but the relationship was over . It happens.,

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 27/09/2019 08:52

He is the son of a Count I believe...He is more than able to provide a lifestyle on par to Beatrices..And as for the baby who has two loving parents I am sure will cause no worries at all for Beatrice.It won;t be her and him sat in a macdonalds on a saturday afternoon ....it is what it is...If anything it would be him I would be advising to tread carefully based on the actions reported and seen over the years from her parents who are. neither of them covered in moral glory.It will either go well or it won;t .They look happy enough to me so I wish them well...

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 27/09/2019 09:08

Hmmm, apparently his ex-fiancees mother is saying that her daughter did not expect the split and has been asked to leave the flat. She’s staying at friends and comes in the evenings to put her son to bed.

I looked for the story after seeing this thread and this came up in Apple news (Daily Mirror Blush).

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edgeofheaven · 27/09/2019 09:15

I suspect it's a convenient moment to throw the light away from her father personally

I hope they wouldn't be so cynical but it's a good point. Although at the same time you'd think she mightn't want to be walked down the aisle by your father right now given what's come out about him either right?

If anything it would be him I would be advising to tread carefully based on the actions reported and seen over the years from her parents who are. neither of them covered in moral glory.

An understatement really!

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DonKeyshot · 27/09/2019 09:21

On 6 August 2016 the Fail reported that it was 'all over' for Beatrice and her beau of 10 years, Dave Clark.

If Bea started dating Edo in the same year, it was a very quick rebound on her part.

Didkdt · 27/09/2019 09:24

'I believe his ex is a high flying business woman in architecture and the boy is looked after by a nanny.'
'Poor kid if that's the case.'

I think these 2 are the most shocking comments. She doesn´t have some Les Miserables type situation where she farms the baby out, She has a shared residency agreement with her ex and they use a nanny. I am quite sure the child sees plenty of both parents, and the DM did report that actually whilst the ex was abroad Edo, I hate that name, and Princess Bea were caring for the child.
This wont be an easy family set up, step families in general are hard work, step families where every Christmas and Easter is photographed world wide, and your siblings will be elevated to some arbitary celebrity status because their mother is 9th in line to the throne and dropping will be harder.
I really hope it works out for everybody, because if it doesn´t it wont be the spurned ex or the social climbing hubby who are burned it will be the 2 year old boy oblivious to the complexities of his current family situation

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edgeofheaven · 27/09/2019 09:27

I feel like I have to clarify my "poor kid" comment because I am a working mother who has a nanny.

I was imagining the following

  • parents have split
  • dad moving on with glam new wife
  • half siblings with royal lineage coming soon to overshadow
  • mum busy or not around

Just doesn't seem like the happiest set up to me.

It is not a statement in and of itself about working women.

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MindyStClaire · 27/09/2019 10:27

So she was fine to work when she was in a relationship, but when her partner fucked off with another woman the responsibility was on her to give up her job to be around for her son? I've never once seen that suggested about a man who has a job and a child.

Limpshade · 27/09/2019 10:28

There's an element of sexism (to women and men alike) to these assumptions:

The ex-fiancée is devastated at the news, left holding the "tantrumming toddler" etc etc...

The fiancé will allow his son to be "pushed out" by a new child/children of royal heritage...

Perhaps the ex-fiancée instigated the break-up herself, is now happily moved on alone/with a new partner, etc etc...

The fiancé may well be a very involved father who continued to cohabit with his ex for the benefit of his son, whom he loves very much and would never "replace" with another child.

It all just seems to be very outdated kinds of speculation based on nothing much really.

Answerthequestion · 27/09/2019 10:36

Or perhaps we have no idea of the details behind the split or Beatrice’s relationship and just possibly (and probably) she’s a nice girl who fell in love with an old friend and is really happy bringing the little boy into her family. I’ve never heard anything to suggest that her and her sister are anything other than nice decent girls.

Dowser · 27/09/2019 10:55

I saw an alleged quote from Fergie
Something along the lines of ‘Prince Andrew and I have been so lucky’
I thought..yes love, you have been.

Soola · 27/09/2019 11:01

Mumsnet has severely declined over the years and we now have awful threads like this where idle gossip and bitchiness stemming from jealousy are allowed to remain yet they take down threads of other public figures. Hideous bias and no impartiality.

Sagradafamiliar · 27/09/2019 11:09

It's old news and false news isn't it?

Pedallleur · 27/09/2019 12:49

Distracts from her father tho' who is sensibly keeping a low profile. lets hope he isn't indicted around the time of the nuptials (as if!)

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Rachelover60 · 27/09/2019 18:00

I don't see why he would be, he is only one of many prominent men who were invited to Epstein's parties, women too, and they probably all thought the women/girls were hired through an agency. There's no point having a witch hunt and it's nothing to do with Beatrice and Eugenie.

Chloemol · 27/09/2019 18:34

So you obviously don’t read posts on MZ then, otherwise you wouldn’t be surprised at all. This happens often on here