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Princess Beatrice of York
Born (1988-08-08) 8 August 1988 (age 36)
Portland Hospital, London
HouseHouse of Windsor
FatherPrince Andrew, Duke of York
MotherSarah, Duchess of York
OccupationStudent, University of London
Royal family of
the United Kingdom and the
other Commonwealth realms
Badge of the House of Windsor

Princess Beatrice of York (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988) is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is fifth, and the first female, in the line of succession to the thrones of the 16 Commonwealth Realms.

As a university student, Beatrice does not regularly carry out official royal duties; however, she does sometimes make appearances with the Royal Family at events, such as when she and her sister, Princess Eugenie, represented their father at a service of thanksgiving for her late aunt Diana, Princess of Wales, in 2007.

Early life

Beatrice was born on 8 August 1988 at 8.18pm at the Portland Hospital, the first child of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York, and fifth grandchild of HM Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She was baptised in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace on 20 December 1988, her godparents being: Viscount Linley (her paternal cousin); the Duchess of Roxburghe (now Lady Jane Dawnay); The Hon Mrs John Greenall; and Mrs Henry Cotterell.[1] She was named after Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Queen Mary, the Queen's grandmother and the Duchess' mother's second name.[2] As a male-line grandchild of the sovereign, Beatrice was styled Her Royal Highness with the title Princess Beatrice of York.

Beatrice and her sister are the only granddaughters of the Queen to hold the title of princess and the style Her Royal Highness. Although, by Letters Patent issued by King George V, their cousin Lady Louise Windsor, is legally a princess, she is not styled as such at the request of her parents and the Queen. Their other cousin, Zara Phillips, is the Queen's granddaughter through the female line, therefore allowing her only the title and style of her father, Captain Mark Phillips.

Education

Beatrice began her early education at the independent Upton House School in Windsor, in 1991. From there, she and her sister both attended the independent Coworth Park School from 1995. Beatrice continued her education at the independent St. George's School in Ascot, where she was a pupil from 2000 to 2007. Having been diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, she delayed sitting her GCSE exams for one year. She remained at St. George's to take her A-Levels, gaining a grade A in drama, and B grades in history and film studies.[3] She was elected Head Girl in her final year.[4]

In September 2008, Beatrice started a degree in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, to graduate in 2011.[5] She graduated with a 2:1 in History and History of Ideas.[6]

Personal interests

In an interview to mark her 18th birthday, Beatrice said that she wanted to use her position to assist others through charity work; she had already undertaken charitable duties alongside her mother through the various organisations the Duchess supported. In 2002, Beatrice visited HIV-infected children in Russia, and, in Britain, she supported Springboard for Children (a literacy project for primary-school children with learning difficulties) and the Teenage Cancer Trust. During the summer of 2008, Beatrice volunteered as a sales clerk at Selfridges, and it was reported Beatrice and a friend have plans to found a fashion line.[7] In April 2010, running to raise money for Children in Crisis, she became the first member of the royal family to complete the London Marathon.[8]

Beatrice has also been involved in the film industry, becoming the first member of the Royal Family to appear in a non-documentary film when she made a brief non-speaking/featured extra appearance in The Young Victoria (2009), based around the accession and coronation of Beatrice's fourth-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. Beatrice had a minor, non-speaking role in a number of scenes.[9]

Official duties

Beatrice has been present at a number of official royal occasions, such as Trooping the Colour in London, and Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday. She and her sister were also guests at the Concert for Diana, in memory of their late aunt organised by their cousins, Prince William and Prince Harry. Both princesses attended the service of thanksgiving for Diana on 1 September 2007, representing their father, who was on an official visit to Malaysia. Beatrice was present at the 2011 Royal Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. At the wedding, Beatrice's hat designed by Philip Treacy was noted by the media as an odd choice of fashion. In May 2011 the hat was offered for sale on the internet auction site eBay with proceeds to go to charity.[10] It was sold for £81,000 ($123,325), with the money split between Unicef and Children in Crisis.[11]

Beatrice, and her sister Eugenie, have attracted more press and media attention to their clothes and style since the Royal Wedding in April 2011. She has begun to attend more functions in her official capacity as a Princess.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Royal styles of
Princess Beatrice of York
Reference styleHer Royal Highness
Spoken styleYour Royal Highness
Alternative styleMa'am
  • 8 August 1988–: Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York

The Princess's style and title in full: Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York. As a British princess, Beatrice holds no surname; however, as with the other male-line grandchildren of Elizabeth II, she uses the name of the area over which her father holds title, i.e. York (as Prince Harry uses Wales, per his father, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales).

Arms

Coat of arms of Princess Beatrice
Notes
The Princess' personal coat of arms is the shield of the arms of the sovereign in right of the United Kingdom, differenced by a label of five points bearing three bees in reference to her Christian name and maternal arms.
Adopted
18 July 2006
Coronet
A coronet composed of four crosses formy and four strawberry leaves.
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st and 4th gules three lions passant guardant in pale or 2nd or a lion rampant gules within a double tressure flory counterflory gules 3rd azure a harp or stringed argent.
Supporters
Dexter a lion rampant gardant or imperially crowned proper, sinister a unicorn argent, armed, crined and unguled or, gorged with a coronet or composed of crosses patée and fleurs de lis a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also or.
Other elements
The whole differenced by a label of five points argent, the centre and exterior points each charged with a bee volant proper.
Banner
The Princess' personal Royal Standard is that of the sovereign in right of the United Kingdom, labelled for difference as in her arms.
Symbolism
As with the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom. The first and fourth quarters are the arms of England, the second of Scotland, the third of Ireland. The use of three bees in her arms continues the trend in royal heraldry (cf. the arms of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge) of using charges from the maternal line (The Ferguson arms feature a crest bearing a bee). It can also be considered a pun on the name Beatrice, an unusual example of canting in modern royal arms.

Ancestry

Family of Princess Beatrice
16. George I of Greece
8. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
17. Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
4. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark
18. Prince Louis of Battenberg
9. Princess Alice of Battenberg
19. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
2. Prince Andrew, Duke of York
20. George V of the United Kingdom
10. George VI of the United Kingdom
21. Princess Mary of Teck
5. Elizabeth II
22. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
11. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
23. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck
1. Princess Beatrice of York
24. Brig. Gen. Algernon Ferguson
12. Col. Andrew Ferguson
25. Hon. Margaret Brand
6. Maj. Ronald Ferguson
26. Lord Herbert Montagu Douglas Scott
13. Hon. Marian Scott
27. Marie Edwards
3. Sarah Margaret Ferguson
28. Henry FitzHerbert Wright
14. FitzHerbert Wright
29. Muriel Fletcher
7. Susan Wright
30. Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt
15. Hon. Doreen Wingfield
31. Sybil Pleydell-Bouverie

References

  1. ^ Yvonne's Royalty Home Page – Royal Christenings
  2. ^ Biography of Beatrice of York
  3. ^ "Princess Beatrice 'ecstatic' after passing A-levels". Daily Mail. 17 August. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. ^ "The Royalist > Princess Beatrice Celebrates An Election Win". The Royalist. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
  5. ^ Aislinn Simpson (30 June 2009). "Palace officials spent £250,000 renovating Princess Beatrice apartment". Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  6. ^ "mirror.co.uk".
  7. ^ Nicholl, Katie (8 September). "Princess Bea the style queen... she can't get it from Mum!". Daily Mail. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  8. ^ Matthew Moore (25 April 2010). "Princess Beatrice becomes first royal to complete London Marathon". Telegraph.co.uk.
  9. ^ Bamigboye, Baz (28 September). "Princess Beatrice to appear in film about Victoria's royal ascent". Daily Mail. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  10. ^ Newscore (11 May 2011). Princess Beatrice's ridiculed wedding hat to be sold on eBay. New York Post
  11. ^ "Princess Beatrice's hat worn at the royal wedding sells for $123,325". Herald Sun. Australia. 22 May 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
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