Alex Mapelli-Mozzi Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Count
Alex Mapelli-Mozzi
Full Name:Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi
Nationality:Italian and British
Sport:Alpine skiing
Birth Date:7 May 1951

Count Alessandro Mapelli-Mozzi (born 7 May 1951) is a British-Italian alpine skier.[1] He competed in three events at the 1972 Winter Olympics.[2] He holds both British and Italian citizenship.[3] He is the father-in-law of Princess Beatrice.[4] In 2012, he was reported as residing in La Garde-Freinet, France. He is a member of an Italian noble family, whose family seat is the Villa Mapelli Mozzi. As Italian nobility has been abolished, his title of count is not officially recognised in either Italy[5] or the UK;[6] he uses the title "as a courtesy".[7]

Early life and career

Mapelli-Mozzi grew up in Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro, the sithome of his family seat, Villa Mapelli Mozzi, which has held works of art.[8] [9] [10] He was a boarder at Downside School, Somerset, England, from May 1965 to July 1969.[11] He has worked internationally as an art dealer and curator.[12]

Personal life

He married Nicola Burrows from Oxfordshire on 8 March 1978.[10] [13] They have two children: Natalia Alice (born 1981) and Edoardo Alessandro (born 1983), husband of Princess Beatrice.[14]

Notes and References

  1. News: Announcements 2012. 15 March 2019 . The Daily Telegraph . The engagement is announced between Tod, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Yeomans, of Winchester, Hampshire, and Natalia, stepdaughter of the late Mr Christopher Shale and daughter of Mrs Christopher Shale, of Over Worton, Oxfordshire, and Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, of La Garde Freinet, France..
  2. Alex Mapelli-Mozzi Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041530/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/alex-mapelli-mozzi-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 16 March 2018.
  3. Web site: Un nuovo Royal Wedding: Beatrice di York sposa l'italiano Edoardo Mapelli-Mozzi . 21 August 2019. la Repubblica . it . 26 September 2019.
  4. News: Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony . 17 July 2020 . BBC News . 17 July 2020 . Mr Mapelli Mozzi [married to Princess Beatrice] is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis and is a count himself..
  5. Web site: Constitution of the Italian Republic, Transitional and Final Provisions, XIV (page 42).
  6. Web site: Royal Warrant of April 27, 1932 on Foreign Titles.
  7. Web site: Titles (foreign) . UK Government .
    - News: Kretschmer . A. . Princess Beatrice revelation: Heartbreaking reason why Edo cannot take aristocratic title . 15 October 2019 . Daily Express . 4 October 2019 . They (Italian titles) may still be used as a courtesy, but have no legal standing..
    - News: Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony . 17 July 2020 . BBC News . 17 July 2020 . Mr Mapelli Mozzi is the son of former Olympic skier Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi and Nikki Williams-Ellis and is a count himself..
  8. Book: Art de France, Issue 1 . 1961 . The University of California . 29 September 2019 . Google Books . Ces décorations d'Ancy ellesmêmes sont proches de « la Vénus et les Amours » (collection Mapelli Mozzi, Ponte san Pietro°)..
  9. Book: Turner, J. . Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art . 2000 . Grove's Dictionaries . 1884446043 . 1 October 2019 . Google Books . C. Mapelli Mozzi: El traje indigena en Alexico, 2 vols (Mexico City, 1964, 2/1968) C. ... The first collectors of Mexican art were the conquistadors themselves, led by Hernan Cortes, an.....
  10. . Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi . 163 . 1978 . 507 . TI Media. of Mr David Burrows, of Pincents Farm, Theale, Berkshire, and of Mrs Susan Burrows, of 2 Walton Street, London, SW3, is to be married to Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi, only son of Count Gianpaulo Mapelli Mozzi, of Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro.....
  11. The Raven, volume LXI number 247, 1969, page 56. Downside School.
  12. South African Digest . 1980 . 4 . South African Digest . 29 September 2018 . Department of Information, South Africa . Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi (left), the curator of the 143 drinking glasses (photographed) with Mr Jimmy Krugar President of the Senate. Google Books .
    - To the Point News in Depth . 1980 . 9 . 36–52 . The pageant of the past . 1 October 2019 . African International Publishing Company . Count Alex Mapelli- Mozzi who is responsible for bringing the magnificent collection of antique glass drinking vessels, valued at millions of rands, to South Africa, would not disclose the insured value of the collection, as, with lifted eyebrows he said: "Lloyds of London would not...... Denise Jordaan . Google Books.
  13. News: Young . Sarah . Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi: Who is Princess Beatrice's fiancé? . https://web.archive.org/web/20190926193858/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/edoardo-mapelli-mozzi-who-princess-beatrice-net-worth-job-family-age-a9121311.html . 2019-09-26 . limited . live . 26 September 2019 . The Independent . 26 September 2019.
    - Book: Libro d'Oro della Nobilita Italiana . 2000–2004 . 44.
  14. Book: Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana . 2000–2004 . M-Z . 44-45 . 1 October 2019 . Mapelli (Mapelli-Mozzi)...(a) Natalia, n. a Londra 28 ag. 1981; (b) Co Edoardo, n. a Londra 19 nov. 1983;....
    - News: Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony . 17 July 2020 . BBC News . 17 July 2020.

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