When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they’d named their daughter Lilibet after the Queen’s lifelong personal nickname, the decision was met with bewilderment due to their recent public attacks on the monarch and her family.
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But for Princess Beatrice, who last month announced that she and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are expecting their first child, it was a lot more personal.
“Beatrice got teary when she heard they’d gone with Lili,” says a source.
“And with good reason. Everyone knew she had planned ever since she was a little girl to call her firstborn daughter Lily, inspired by her grandmother. Now that dream is in tatters, and she’s heartbroken.”
Bea, who has been bumped to 10th in line to the throne now that Harry and Meghan have welcomed their second baby, has reportedly opted not to find out the gender of her child.
However, an insider says, “She feels in her heart that the baby will be a girl.”
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The 32-year-old shares a close relationship with her grandmother, 95, who was one of the few guests
at her socially distanced lockdown wedding last July.
For the intimate occasion, the Queen loaned Bea one of her most famous white dresses as well as the Queen Mary Tiara, which Her Majesty wore on her own wedding day.
Despite Bea’s anger over Meghan commandeering her dream baby name, insiders say the Princess of York may end up with the last laugh.
“After everything that Meghan and Harry have done, Prince Charles may choose not to give their kids princess and prince titles when he becomes king,” says a source.
“But Bea has something they don’t – another avenue into getting her future child a title. Edo is a count through the Italian side of his family and they’re looking into whether Baby Mozzi may be eligible to inherit it.”
