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Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Princess Beatrice paid her grandmother a touching compliment at an event celebrating the 96-year-old monarch's Platinum Jubilee on Sunday, and the video of the moment has gone viral.
The clip which was uploaded to TikTok by user royalfamilyfanpage5 has been viewed over 2.2 million times and has received 170,000 likes.
The video shows Beatrice, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, attending a "Big Jubilee Lunch" event hosted by a London council alongside her sister, Princess Eugenie.
The TikTok video shows the princess in a lighthearted meeting with a member of the public who asked her: "who are you?"
Beatrice responded: "My name's Beatrice and the queen is my granny."
"You're one of the royalties?" the lady continued, "what relation are you?"
"Yes, she's my granny" Beatrice answered as she took the woman's hand.
When asked, "Oh, aren't you lucky?" the princess closed by saying, "yes, she's my granny. I'm very, very lucky."
Beatrice is known to have particular admiration for her grandmother. Speaking to HELLO! in 2017, she said of the queen:
"I find my grandmother inspiring every day because her overwhelming sense of duty is linked with an overwhelming curiosity. Every day she's curious to learn something new, to do something new."
When Beatrice married in 2020, the close bond with her grandmother was demonstrated through her wedding dress, which the queen loaned to her granddaughter from her personal archive.
The dress was a 1960s couture gown in white silk with crystal embellishments made by Sir Norman Hartnell, the designer of the queen's own wedding and coronation dresses. The queen famously wore the gown to a royal premiere of Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole in 1962 and again to open Parliament that same year.
The queen also loaned her granddaughter the diamond fringe tiara she wore on her wedding day to Prince Philip in 1947.
In a post to Twitter when the dress went on display at Windsor Castle after the wedding, Beatrice wrote: "It was an honor to wear my grandmother's beautiful dress on my wedding day."
Beatrice and Eugenie were present at many of the most important Platinum Jubilee celebrations including the Trooping the Colour parade, the Platinum Party at the Palace pop concert and the Jubilee pageant. The princesses were not joined by their father, Prince Andrew, who announced he would not be attending the jubilee celebrations after testing positive for COVID-19.
Both Beatrice and Eugenie have appeared in the news throughout the last three years as Andrew has been embroiled in a sex abuse scandal relating to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
A lawsuit was filed against Andrew by Virginia Giuffre in 2021 alleging that he knowingly had sex with her while she was underage. The prince denied the allegations and settled the lawsuit out of court for an estimated $10 million in 2022 after stepping down from his role as a working royal and no longer using his HRH (His Royal Highness) titles.
Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in July 2020 in a small service with the queen and Prince Philip among the limited number of guests in accordance with the U.K. government's COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings. While Andrew walked his daughter down the aisle, he was not in any of the wedding photos that were released by Buckingham Palace.
Beatrice was accompanied to the pageant on Sunday for the first time at a royal event by her stepson Christopher "Wolfie" Mapelli Mozzi, 6.
Wolfie, as he is known, is the product of a relationship between Beatrice's husband and ex-partner American architect, Dara Huang. When Beatrice gave birth to the couple's first child, Sienna Elizabeth (named in honor of the queen), the couple released a statement including Wolfie, reading:
"The new baby's grandparents and great-grandparents have all been informed and are delighted with the news...Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well, and the couple are looking forward to introducing their daughter to her big brother Christopher Woolf."
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James Crawford-Smith is a Newsweek Royal Reporter, based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on the British royal family ... Read more