Sources suggest Buckingham Palace may even keep the event private altogether
The main U.K. television channels are not expected to cover the wedding of Princess Beatrice this year, for fear the scandal surrounding her father might overshadow her big day.
Senior ITV sources said Sunday that the channel “had no plans to televise” the wedding of the princess, 31, to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, a 36-year-old Italian property developer. The BBC has already said it will not broadcast the wedding live. Sources suggested Buckingham Palace may even keep the event private, although it is thought more likely that “pooled” television shots of the couple entering and leaving church will be shown instead of full coverage. The low-key staging of what is likely to be the last major Royal wedding for some years follows the continued fallout over the Duke of York’s interview on the BBC’s Newsnight, which backfired catastrophically.
An ITV source said: “Any wedding would, in the end, only be about Prince Andrew. The focus would be on him and Buckingham Palace do not want that.” The Palace has yet to make the wedding date and venue public. Possible options include St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, or even on a private estate in Italy. The princess’s sister Eugenie’s wedding was shown live on ITV to three million viewers.
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