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Princess Beatrice will marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi next year and as she gets ready to walk down the aisle there is mounting speculation about the kind of wedding she will have. While many expected her to follow in the footsteps of her sister Princess Eugenie, who married Jack Brooksbank last year, Beatrice is the first of the Queen’s grandchildren not to have this extravagance at her wedding.
Zara Tindall, 38, married her husband Mike, 40, in 2011, just months after the lavish royal wedding of Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey.
Zara was raised without a royal title and is often praised for her down-to-earth attitude but her royal wedding was not without splendour.
While her wedding far less expensive than Prince William and Kate’s which is estimated to have cost the British public an eye-watering £24 million, she did receive taxpayer funding for security on her big day.
Zara and Mike tied the knot at Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirk and security for the event is reported to have cost the British taxpayer £500,000.
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“This makes total sense, I had thought that she would have chosen St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle like Eugenie as the Yorks so often seem extravagant, but this would have been controversial involving high-security costs, estimated last year at £2 million for Eugenie’s wedding, from the public purse.”
“Though it was elegant and some three million people watched the ceremony live when it was broadcast on ITV, it was also the subject of criticism as neither Eugenie nor Beatrice are working royals though they do carry out occasional royal engagements.
“However, they have built up their own careers with some success.
“The idea of a far less spectacular wedding paid for privately, is an excellent one, as it would be a happy and fashionable affair and it would also be popular with the public and in the press.”
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