PRINCESS Beatrice may be eyeing up a move to the Cotswolds as she allegedly viewed a £3 million family home just days before announcing her pregnancy.
Beatrice, 32, revealed today that she is pregnant with her first child with her husband, multi-millionaire property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 38.
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The couple viewed a sprawling £3m home in Oxfordshire complete with a “party barn” and swimming pool earlier this month, the Mail on Sunday reported.
A source said: “The owner was very excited Bea had been round, though she tried to keep it quiet.”
The property is near the home Prince Harry’s friend George Spencer-Churchill shares with his wife Camilla.
If they purchase the home, then the couple will give back Beatrice’s four-bedroom apartment in St James’s Palace.
She shared the apartment with sister Eugenie before she moved to Harry and Meghan’s old home, Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, with her husband Jack Brooksbank.
Beatrice revealed she is pregnant on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s anniversary – three years after they did the same at Eugenie’s wedding.
Her Majesty, 95, who is mourning the death of Prince Philip, is said to be “delighted” at her granddaughter’s news.
The Queen currently has ten great-grandkids after Princess Eugenie gave birth to son August in February, followed by Zara Tindall’s son Lucas in March.
Beatrice’s baby will be her 12th – with Meghan Markle due to give birth to her and Prince Harry’s daughter in the summer.
She is already a stepmother to Edoardo’s four-year-old son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie.
A Buckingham Palace statement said today: “Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are very pleased to announce that they are expecting a baby in autumn of this year.
“The Queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the news.”
The announcement from Buckingham Palace comes on the anniversary of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in 2018.
Royal expert and author Duncan Larcombe told The Celeb Report the timing was “not a simple oversight”.
Meghan famously announced she was expecting baby Archie on the day of Beatrice’s sister, Princess Eugenie’s, wedding.
According to royal sources, she told the Queen and Prince Philip, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, Princess Eugenie and Jack before the big day on October 12, 2018.
Meghan’s declaration was said to have left Eugenie and Sarah Ferguson “furious” and Harry “embarrassed”.
