Princess Beatrice has received a thoughtful Mother’s Day gift from her nine-year-old stepson amid the ensuing fallout from her parents’ controversial ties to Epstein.
Dara Huang, the ex-fiancée of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, shared a video of their son Christopher ‘Wolfie’ Woolf Mapelli Mozzi, as he worked on a sweet card for Beatrice, 37.
Captioned ‘making his stepmom a Mother’s Day card’ with a heart, the video showed young Wolfie colouring in while sat at a table on a train, as Dara, 42, added: ‘I taught him how to draw a (bee emoji)’.
The footage offered a rare insight into Beatrice’s loving role as a stepmother for young Wolfie during an incredibly tumultuous time – as she faces renewed scrutiny amid her parent’s tranche of emails to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Dara and Edoardo first started dating in 2015 and in 2017 announced their joyous engagement. The following year, they welcomed their young son.
However, their relationship was to be rather short-lived and they parted ways in 2018, just weeks before rumours broke out that Edoardo and Beatrice were in a relationship.
Yet Edoardo is said to enjoy an amicable relationship with Dara, while Beatrice also plays a doting stepmother role in young Wolfie’s life.
The princess will no doubt have welcomed of young Wolfie’s kind card amid heightened public scrutiny due to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson’s controversial association with Epstein.
Dara Huang, the ex-fiancée of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , shared a video of their son Christopher ‘Wolfie’ Woolf Mapelli Mozzi, as he worked on a sweet Mother’s Day card for Beatrice, 37
The footage offered a rare insight into Beatrice’s loving role as a stepmother for young Wolfie (both pictured in December 2023) during an incredibly tumultuous time – as she faces renewed scrutiny amid her parent’s tranche of emails to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Both Beatrice and her sister Eugenie were recently dragged further into the scandal after The Mail on Sunday discovered he pushed for them to receive £100,000 in secret payments from a controversial billionaire he was helping while trade envoy.
The newspaper has previously exposed how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor promoted the business interests of his financier friend David Rowland and his son Jonathan while on globetrotting taxpayer-funded trade missions.
Investigations then uncovered an email revealing how Andrew discussed payments of £50,000 to each of his daughters, which could have been used to fund their lavish lifestyles. Andrew was apparently due to receive £300,000.
Following the damning findings, MPs demanded to know whether the payments were made in return for Andrew’s help in pushing the Rowlands’ commercial ventures.
The extraordinary revelation plunged Beatrice and Eugenie further into the controversy over their father’s alleged abuse of his trade envoy position amid mounting questions over how the princesses afforded their jet-set lifestyle in their 20s.
In November, the Daily Mail reported that Prince William had urged his cousins to allow an ‘ethics’ check on their finances and investments while King Charles had offered the services of one of his senior advisers. The offers of help – and scrutiny – were said to have been politely turned down.
The futures of Beatrice and Eugenie have been cast into doubt after their parents’ dramatic downfall. They feature more than 300 times in Epstein Files released by the US Department of Justice and have recently been keeping a low profile.
Yet Beatrice’s relationship with young Wolfie and Dara appears to have been unaltered by the scandal, while also offering a unique glimpse into Beatrice’s family relations amid an incredibly turbulent time.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in 2024, Dara praised Beatrice’s role as a loving figure for the now nine-year-old.
Wolfie has had two sets of parents trying to help him on both sides, and I just think, “The more, the merrier”,’ she said.
Wolfie was born in 2016 to millionaire property tycoon Edo and his then-girlfriend, American architect and designer, Dara Huang.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in 2024, Dara praised Beatrice’s role as a loving figure for the now nine-year-old. Wolfie has had two sets of parents trying to help him on both sides, and I just think, “The more, the merrier”,’ she said. Pictured: Beatrice, Edoardo and Wolfie in 2022
Beatrice has gladly taken on the role of stepmother to Wolfie, calling him her ‘bonus son’ and introducing him into the royal fold, including at Kate Middleton’s Together at Christmas carol service in Westminster Abbey in December 2023.
Princess Beatrice has described becoming a stepmother to husband Edoardo’s son Wolfie a ‘great honour’ and revealed she had had a ‘remarkable time’ re-reading her favourite stories with him during lockdown.
The Queen’s granddaughter became the first princess in the late Queen’s family to marry someone with children when she wed property developer Edo in a private family ceremony at Windsor in July 2020.
Wolfie made his first official appearance at a royal family event at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in June 2022 as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
In 2022, he spent Christmas at Sandringham, holding hands with Edo and Beatrice as he took part in the annual walk at St Mary Magdalene church.
And as the royal family welcomed Wolfie into their ranks with open arms, he also gained an extra grandmother in Beatrice’s mother, Sarah Ferguson.
Fergie, 66, has often spoken with incredible warmth about her eldest grandchild – and even included him in the dedications in her previous novel, ‘Flora and Fern: Wonder in the Woods’.
The former Duchess previously told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I wrote Flora and Fern for my grandchildren and also my step grandson Wolfie. It is a special little story encouraging children to enjoy and respect nature and use their imagination to play.’
