‘Very pleased’: Buckingham Palace shares royal baby news

Another royal baby is on the way. Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, are expecting their second child.

IN LONDON

Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, have announced they are expecting their second child together.

In a statement released on Tuesday by Buckingham Palace, the couple said they were “very pleased” to share their pregnancy news, and revealed the baby is due early in the UK spring, which runs from March until May.

“Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are very pleased to announce that they are expecting their second child together in early spring; a sibling for Wolfie, aged eight, and Sienna, aged three,” the statement read.

“His Majesty The King has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.”

The baby is due in the British springtime. Picture: Henry Nicholls/AFP

Beatrice and her husband are already parents to daughter Sienna, three, while Edoardo also has a son, Wolfie (real name Christopher Wolf), eight, with his ex-fiancee.

They released two new pictures along with their pregnancy announcement, with one showing a blonde Sienna walking down a country land holding hands with her father and big brother.

They shared two new pictures along with the announcement. Picture: Buckingham Palace

One featured Edoardo with Sienna and his son. Picture: Buckingham Palace

The other showed a beaming Beatrice cuddling up to Edoardo while he gazes back at her.

The non-working royal couple wed in July 2020 at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park and welcomed their daughter in September the following year.

Edoardo was previously engaged to Dara Huang, the mother of his son.

The newest royal baby will join the line of succession in 11th place, behind Sienna and Beatrice, while Princess Eugenie will be pushed back to 12th.

Like the baby’s older sister, he or she will not be known as HRH or have a royal title.

The child will be Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s fourth grandchild, joining Sienna as well as Eugenie’s sons, August, 3, and Ernest Brooksbank, 1.