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Last week, Princess Beatrice married her fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a small, intimate, private ceremony in Windsor, attended only by those closest to the bride and groom. However, according to royal sources, the young princess was crushed by the scaled-down wedding. The Sun’s executive editor Dan Wootton told True Royalty TV that Princess Beatrice had planned a “big flashy wedding at Buckingham Palace”.

He said: “I have massive sympathies with Beatrice but there was a growing realisation that the scandal involving Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein made a sort of a public wedding close to impossible.

“Even if there were guests, just imagine the reaction to Prince Andrew walking her down the aisle.

“To be able to do it totally privately, under the veil of COVID-19, is a bit of a cover-up.

“I feel sorry for her.”

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Royal historian Tessa Dunlop claimed that Beatrice had always wanted a “private wedding”.

She pointed out that the original venue Chapel Royal, were not going to have TV cameras inside.

However, Wootton noted: “But they were going to have a lot of guests, just not TV.

“She wanted a big flashy wedding at Buckingham Palace, that’s what she had planned. It’s sad.”

Beatrice had initially intended to wed near Buckingham Palace in London in May, but had to postpone her nuptials due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The new venue of Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park was Beatrice’s childhood home, where her parents still live.

Government social distancing requirements in the UK also limited the number of people she could invite to the wedding.

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In a statement, the palace said the wedding was held within government guidelines.

It was the first time the Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, have attended a family gathering since lockdown began.

One friend told People: “I think because of everything going on with her dad, this scaled-down wedding was actually better in many ways.”

The father-of-the-bride Prince Andrew faces renewed controversy after the arrest of his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking offences, which she denies.

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