British royal family news reveals that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth didn’t become the longest reigning monarch without picking up a sneaky trick or two. One royal watcher is giving her credit for using a recent royal event to signal her point of view about a significant matter without saying a word.
The recent event was Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’s small summer wedding. Bea was radiant and had the honor wearing one of her grandmother’s gowns for the occasion. The ceremony was originally planned for earlier in the year but, Covid.
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Then there was the delicate matter of the father of the bride, disgraced Prince Andrew–What to do about that? He is accused of cavorting with a known pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, which is bad enough. But wait, there’s more. One underage girl associated with the late pedophile has claimed that she and Andrew had sexual relations when she was underage. Andrew is wanted by the FBI for questioning in the matter but thus far has reportedly not made himself available.
So, basically the fam found a compromise in terms of “Randy Andy” and his daughter’s wedding—he was allowed to attend but was “erased” from the official pictures released of Beatrice’s nuptials.
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Royal watcher Camilla Tominey says that the queen, “used Princess Beatrice’s wedding picture,” as a, “useful signal,” to the public. She claims that by excluding any trace of the Duke of York she adroitly acknowledged his, “spectacular fall from grace.”
In the pictures given to the media, Beatrice is with Edo in one, and with the Queen and Prince Philip in another.
Tominey explained, “Clearly, there has been a collective decision taken that he should not feature in the imagery of this historic moment for the bride and groom and that is rare.” And sad. What does it say about a person when he is excluded from the photos at his own daughter’s wedding?
She went on, “We see the parents in most of the official photographs from royal weddings that are released by members of the family. That it’s just been a picture of the couple, and that lovely photograph of the couple with the Queen and Prince Philip, it is a useful signal for Buckingham Palace to send out.” Useful and about as subtle as a horsewhipping.
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