Beatrice attended St George's School, Ascot, before studying at Goldsmiths College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in history.

She was briefly employed at the Foreign Office and Sony Pictures before joining software company Afiniti as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.

Beatrice also works privately with a number of charitable organisations, including the Teenage Cancer Trust and Outward Bound.

[2] She was baptised in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace on 20 December 1988, her godparents being Viscount Linley (her father's cousin, now the 2nd Earl of Snowdon); the Duchess of Roxburghe (now Lady Jane Dawnay); Peter Palumbo; Gabrielle Greenall; and Carolyn Cotterell.

[30] In January 2022, it was reported that Beatrice had lost her taxpayer-funded police security in 2011, supposedly after her uncle Charles III (then Prince of Wales) intervened.

[31] Beatrice and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh accompanied Queen Elizabeth II to the traditional Royal Maundy services on 5 April 2012 in York.

There, Beatrice interacted with parishioners, received flowers from the public, and assisted the Queen as she passed out the Maundy money to the pensioners.

[40][41] Upon the accession of Charles III, her position in the line of succession made Beatrice eligible to be appointed a Counsellor of State.

[42] In 2006, Beatrice was briefly in a relationship with Paolo Liuzzo, an American whose previous charge for assault and battery caused controversy at the time.

[44][45] In March 2019, Beatrice attended a fundraising event at the National Portrait Gallery, London, accompanied by property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, the son of Alex Mapelli-Mozzi, a British-Italian Olympic alpine skier.

[61] Princess Beatrice has a stepson, Christopher Woolf ("Wolfie"[62]), her husband's child from a relationship with architect Dara Huang.

Beatrice and her husband lived at first in a four-bedroom apartment at St James's Palace, but reportedly moved to a manor house in the Cotswolds in late 2022.

[66] Beatrice gave birth to a second daughter, Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi, on 22 January 2025 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, several weeks prematurely.

[69] In an interview to mark her 18th birthday, Beatrice said she wanted to use her position to assist others through charity work;[70] she had already undertaken charitable duties alongside her mother through the various organisations the Duchess supported.

[72] At the April 2011 wedding of her cousin Prince William, Beatrice's unusual fascinator, designed by Philip Treacy, received much attention and derision from the public and the media.

[79] A few weeks later, she attended the 2016 Asia Game Changer Awards Dinner at the United Nations in New York City, which honoured Ruit and others.

[80] Beatrice is the founder of Big Change, a charity she established with six of her friends to encourage young people to develop skills "outside a traditional academic curriculum".

[82][83] In 2017, Beatrice helped promote the anti-bullying book Be Cool Be Nice and gave an interview to Vogue at a House of Lords event, speaking about her own experiences with being bullied for her fashion choices in her early adulthood.

[87] In October 2018, she undertook an extended tour of Laos to "raise the profile of the UK" there, and also participated in the Luang Prabang Half Marathon for Children.

[93] Since her marriage, she has been styled "Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi" in the Court Circular.