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Princess Beatrice is a hard-working member of the Royal Family, not only founding and working with charities and attending royal functions but also working full-time outside of The Firm. Both Beatrice and her sister Eugenie have full-time jobs – meaning they are not working royals like cousin Prince William.

Beatrice works as the Vice President of Partnerships and Strategy at data and software company Afiniti which specialises in artificial intelligence.

Recently Bea has faced upheaval as her wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi has been postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak.

As yet a date for the wedding has not been set, and Bea is currently in lockdown with her fiancé at his mother’s house in Chipping Norton.

Bea gave a rare interview over the weekend, speaking candidly of her struggles in school with dyslexia.

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The princess spoke in support of dyslexia charity Made By Dyslexia, explaining how she feels “we have a responsibility to change the narrative” for young people in the classrooms.

The interview was posted on the Made By Dyslexia YouTube page this past weekend and saw Beatrice explain how her passion for dyslexia awareness is because she is dyslexic herself.

Bea said: “I was very lucky, I got to go to a school that was very nurturing and very supportive, but I would describe the actual day to day learning side of things very challenging.

“You know, I remember we had different coloured books to describe how far where your reading levels had got to and I was always on the white books.

“My best friends were always on the yellow books or the green books. They were so far ahead.

“And I think at that stage, those moments of doubt just pop into your head. I’m not good enough, I’m not smart enough. Why am I not like the others?”

However, Bea said looking back it was moments like that which were “very defining”.

She said: “I think if I were to say to my younger self do not be defined by those moments that happened to you in that exam or that classroom because they are lifelong learnings.

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“They are lessons that you carry with you and they build you up to be who you are.”

In terms of support for dyslexic students in school today, Beatrice said she is: “really excited with all the work that’s going on now with a few different organisations around the world to really think through what is skills-based learning and what are the skills that young people need to be able to thrive in life.”

The princess explained how technology “plays a really important role” in “what we can do for multiple classrooms across the world taking centres of excellence and being able to connect people, being able to tell a very different story, delivering homework help and support and online tutoring.”

She added: “So I really see the work that we’re doing, raising awareness around dyslexia as a true pillar to stand up the concept of reimagining education because so many young people now are going to be faced with some of the biggest moral and ethical decisions, you really want to make sure they have every tool for success.”

In her job at Afiniti, Beatrice explained how her dyslexia has actually been an advantage.

She said: “A lot of my colleagues also have dyslexia because we work in a technology company that is always about thinking differently.

“And I think that’s one of the strengths we have as dyslexics is to look at things differently, be a problem solver, find new ways to do things, be experimental, entrepreneurial.”

On living with dyslexia in everyday life Beatrice said it: “really does affect me day to day.

“It develops as you develop, it grows. It’s part of you, it’s part of how your brain develops.

“It is not something that is wrong with you.

“It is a great part of how your brain works and everybody’s brain works incredibly differently.

“There is nothing wrong, there is just everything that is so right.”

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