Princess Beatrice’s husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, had a key role in helping disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Royal Lodge, just one year before the royal’s recent fall from grace, it has emerged. Edo, who is celebrating his 42nd birthday today, was reportedly helping Andrew with a makeover, offering his father-in-law design advice as a property developer.

But fast forward a year later, the former prince, who was stripped of his titles and honours, will not be redesigning his Windsor home after his brother, the King, forced him to move to another house on the Sandringham Estate, due to his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to the Daily Mail, Beatrice’s husband was seen visiting Royal Lodge several times last November.

The newspaper claimed that Andrew was pleased to be making large-scale renovations at the royal residence, with Mr Mapelli Mozzi believed to be advising him on how to modernise the lavish property.

It came shortly after pictures of the £30million home emerged, showing it looking run-down, with cracks and mould on the outer walls.

Edo, who is the founder and creative director of Banda Property, shares two daughters with the King’s niece, four-year-old Sienna and baby Athena, who is less than one year old.

He also shares son Christopher Woolf ‘Wolfie’, nine, with his former partner, American architect Dara Huang.

Beatrice’s children are not entitled to British royal titles as they are not grandchildren of the monarch – King Charles is their great-uncle.

But, unlike Princess Eugenie’s children, August and Ernest Brooksbank, the Mapelli Mozzi children have a title of their own and it’s thanks to their father’s side.

Edo is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis.

That makes him an Italian count, which means his children also inherit a count or countess title.

His father, Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, explained back in 2020 before the couple’s wedding: “Edoardo is the only male descendent taking the family into the next generation.”

He told the Daily Mail: “He is a count, his wife will be a countess automatically and any of their children will be counts or nobile donna.”