Princess Beatrice Spotted Out with Her Whole Family (Yes, Baby Athena Too)
The royal made a surprise appearance at the victory parade for England's women's soccer team, the Lionesses, and it turned out to be a full family affair. Joining her were husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, their three-year-old daughter Sienna, Edo's eight-year-old son Christopher Woolf (affectionately known as 'Wolfie') and the newest member of the family, baby Athena, seven-months-old.
In a sweet moment captured by cameras, Beatrice, hair pulled back in a relaxed ponytail, was seen gently stroking baby Athena's face as the little one snuggled in a baby carrier on dad Edo's chest.
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Princess Beatrice and Edo welcomed Athena in January. In March, Beatrice opened up about her daughter's early birth in a deeply personal essay for British Vogue, offering rare insight into her pregnancy and the emotional rollercoaster of welcoming a baby born prematurely.
Beatrice revealed that Athena 'needed close monitoring' throughout the pregnancy, and that she and Edo 'understood we needed to prepare for an early arrival.'
'What I learned in this process has been humbling,' she wrote. 'Understanding so much more about our remarkable human bodies, but also, more than anything, what we don't know.'
She went on to describe sleepless nights filled with anxiety: 'I lay awake in the weeks leading up to birth, trying to monitor each movement of the baby in my tummy and asking myself a thousand times, 'What if this happens, or what if that happens?''
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Fortunately, Athena arrived healthy—just a few weeks early—and Beatrice said it took 'more than a few weeks for the tears of relief to dry.' Describing her baby as 'so tiny' with 'feet like the paws of a bunny,' she also reflected on how the experience left her determined to raise awareness around complications related to preterm birth.
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