TOWN TALK: What’s the plan, Beatrice? The princess still lives at St. James’s Palace because they are renovating their six-bed farmhouse in the Cotswolds.
Princess Beatrice is still living at St James’s Palace nine months after buying the family home for £3.5 million.
Why the delay?
I can report that the 33-year-old woman and her husband, Edo Mapelli Mozzi, are doing a major overhaul of their six-bedroom farmhouse in the Cotswolds, including converting the outbuilding into a luxury guest house.
I can report that Princess Beatrice and her husband, Edo Mapelli Mozzi, are undergoing a major renovation of their six-bedroom farmhouse in the Cotswolds.
They also install 6ft security gates.
Beatrice, who gave birth to daughter Sienna last September, reportedly pays just £1,600 a month for a four-bedroom apartment in the palace, about a fifth of the market rate.
But it is located behind a security cordon, so it cannot be rented out.
Princess Beatrice still lives at St James’s Palace in central London (pictured), nine months after buying the family home for £3.5 million.
James Middleton’s Fools
James Middleton went to hell… in a good way, of course.
The Duchess of Cambridge’s brother and wife Alize were left with a shrug when his Boomf marshmallow business went bankrupt and he had to sell it in January for £300,000.
Now he tells me he’s focusing on his dog wellness firm Ella & Co, which supplies healthy freeze-dried dog food.
James Middleton, brother of the Duchess of Cambridge (pictured with wife Alize), was left with a shrug when his marshmallow firm Boomf went bankrupt and had to sell it in January for £300,000.
James, 34, says dog ownership has never been more popular, adding: “Young people are getting dogs almost like their first child.”
However, he is concerned that pets purchased under lockdown are experiencing separation anxiety when their owners return to work.
His decision? “I always turn on the dog radio,” he says.
Matt Hancock should have had a lot of free time since stepping down as health secretary and has started posting serious reviews on Tripadvisor.
Hancock has operated three to date, including a restaurant in Bristol (“the falafel was amazing”) and a hotel in Wales (“so good we wanted to give it 10 stars!”).