Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi broke royal wedding tradition by not sharing their first kiss with the public
Advertisement
Mikhaila Friel
Jul 20, 2020, 20:39 IST
It has become tradition for royal couples to kiss after leaving their wedding venue.Danny Lawson/AFP via Getty Images, Benjamin Wheeler, Yui Mok/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi didn't share a photo of their first kiss as bride and groom.
It has become tradition for royal couples to save their first kiss for the public — and the waiting cameras — after leaving their wedding venue.
It was started by Princess Diana and Prince Charles after their 1981 wedding, and followed by Kate Middleton and Prince William, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, among many others.
While other couples — including Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank — kissed for the cameras outside their wedding venue, this is something Beatrice and Mozzi appeared to opt out of.
It has become common for royal brides and grooms to save their first kiss for the public instead of kissing inside the church. The tradition was started by Prince Charles and Diana on the Buckingham Palace balcony in 1981.
After Charles planted a kiss on Diana's hand, the fans below reportedly shouted "Give her a kiss" — and he obliged.
Advertisement
Beatrice and Mozzi released just a handful of photos from the private ceremony. They held hands as they left the chapel, and either didn't kiss for the cameras — or they just chose not to release the image to the public.
There are a number of reasons why the couple might have chosen not to end their ceremony with a kiss, the first being that there was no public to kiss for.
Alternatively, the couple could have kissed inside the church, however, this is unlikely since it isn't typically done by royal couples for religious reasons.
"Some view the church as a holy place so they won't kiss in the church out of respect, but many vicars throughout the church of England will ask the couple if they want to kiss," royal etiquette expert Myka Meier told People.
NewsletterSIMPLY PUT - where we join the dots to inform and inspire you. Sign up for a weekly brief collating many news items into one untangled thought delivered straight to your mailbox.