Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi; Credit – The Royal Family Facebook Page
Buckingham Palace has announced that Princess Beatrice gave birth to her second child, a daughter, a week ago. Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi was born on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at 12:57 PM at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. The baby was several weeks premature and weighed 4 pounds and 5 ounces, but is said to be healthy and doing well. Athena has an elder sister Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, born September 18, 2021.
Princess Beatrice, the elder of the two daughters of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, is ninth in the line of succession to the British throne, followed by her elder daughter Sienna (tenth in line) and her younger daughter Athena (eleventh in line).
On September 26, 2019, Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Princess Beatrice to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Beatrice and Edoardo’s wedding, scheduled for May 29, 2020, was postponed due to the Covid Pandemic. Beatrice and Edoardo were married in a private ceremony at the Royal Chapel of All Saints, on the grounds of Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, on July 17, 2020.