{"id":630153,"date":"2025-12-13T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630153\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:33:24","slug":"dianas-godson-attends-baptism-of-beatrices-daughter-as-prince-william-skips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630153\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana&#8217;s godson attends baptism of Beatrice&#8217;s daughter as Prince William skips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1384720_051117_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Diana's godson attends baptism of Beatrice's daughter as Prince William skips \" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Beatrice on Friday christened her younger daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose, at the Chapel Royal at St James\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Among other guests, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, Princess Beatrice&#8217;s parents, were also present during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton skipped the event despite being invited, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1384720_7894713_beatrice11_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapellli Mozzi\" width=\"414\" height=\"525\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapellli Mozzi<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, were joined by a small number of close family and friends as they christened Athena before celebrating with a relaxed party at a pub.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1384720_8685461_william-and-kate_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Prince William and Kate Middleton\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prince William and Kate Middleton\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice&#8217;s close friend Princess Nina of Greece and Denmark and her husband, Prince Philippos were also present.<\/p>\n<p>Nina, who has been friends with Beatrice for more than a decade, was reportedly asked to be godmother.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1384720_8225572_nina_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Beatrice with Princess Nina\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2540\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Beatrice with Princess Nina<\/p>\n<p>Princess Nina, a Swiss businesswoman and socialite, gained her title through marriage to Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark, the youngest son of the late King Constantine II (the last King of Greece) and Queen Anne-Marie of Denmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1384720_7663722_nina1_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Nina at her wedding\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Nina at her wedding\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nina is related to the British royal family through extended ties. Her husband\u00a0 is a godson of the late Princess Diana and the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1384720_2299662_diana-and-queen_updates.jpg\" alt=\"The late Princess Diana with the late Queen Elizabeth II\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The late Princess Diana with the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/p>\n<p>The former Greek royal family has longstanding connections to the Windsors, including shared ancestry and close friendships.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Beatrice and her sister Eugenie attended Nina&#8217;s 2021 wedding in Athens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Beatrice on Friday christened her younger daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose, at the Chapel Royal at St James\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-630153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115712284339057345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}