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Alex Mapelli-Mozzi

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 of York.[4] In 2012, he was reported as residing in La Garde-Freinet, Var department, Côte d'Azur, France.[1]

Alex Mapelli-Mozzi
Personal information
Full nameAlessandro Mapelli Mozzi
NationalityItalian and British
Born (1951-05-07) 7 May 1951 (age 73)
Spouse(s)Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows, MBE
Ebba Margaretha Antonie von Eckermann
Fiona Wilson
Sport
SportAlpine skiing

Ancestry

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Coat of arms of the Counts Mapelli Mozzi

Alessando is born as a member of an ancient Italian noble family, whose family seat is Villa Mapelli Mozzi. He is the only son of Count Gian Paolo Mapelli Mozzi (1922-1980) and his Maltese wife, Gigliola Stoppani (1926-2003).[5][6] As Italian nobility has been abolished in 1946, when the Italian Republic was proclaimed, his title of Count is not officially recognised in either Italy[7] or the UK;[8] he uses the title as a courtesy.[1][9] That title of Count in the Kingdom of Italy was awarded to his family in 1913 by King Victor Emmanuel III and to all legitimate male-line descendants bearing the surname of the noble family of Mozzi, which was previously incorporated to the noble family of Mapelli, also part of an ancient Italian nobility. In 1168, Alessandro's ancestor, Alberto di Mapello, Counsul and delegate of the city of Bergamo, son of Oberto di Mapello, fought to defend Lombardy against Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor.[10][11]

Early life and career

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Mapelli-Mozzi grew up in Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro, the sithome of his family seat, Villa Mapelli Mozzi, which has held works of art.[12][13][14]

His family also owns another Villa Mapelli Mozzi, located in Casatenovo, between Bergamo and Lake Como, whose origins are those of an ancient monastery built in the 15th century. This Villa Mapelli Mozzi has been registered in the Italian Register of Historic Houses of Excellence since 2018. It is surrounded by an 18,000 square meter park.[15][16]

Alessandro was a boarder at Downside School, Somerset, England, from May 1965 to July 1969.[17] He has worked internationally as an art dealer and curator.[12][18]

Personal life

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Coat of Arms of Alessandro's wife, Ebba Margaretha Antonie von Eckermann
 
Alessandro's ancestral home: Villa Mapelli Mozzi, Ponte San Pietro, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

Alessandro married firstly Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows, MBE (b. 1956) from Oxfordshire on 8 March 1978, paternal granddaughter of businessman and Liberal party politician Sir Robert Abraham Burrows and his wife, Lady Burrows (née Eleanor Doris Bainbridge), great-granddaughter of Bainbridge's founder Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge.[19][20][21][22][14][23] They have two children: Natalia Alice Yeomans (born 1981) and Edoardo Alessandro (born 1983), husband of Princess Beatrice of York.[24] Alessandro remarried after his divorce from Nikki, this time to Ebba Margaretha Antonie von Eckermann, member of the Swedish nobility of German descent, who was previously married to Jan Gustaf Theodor Stensson Ankarcrona (b. 1940).[25][26] He married also Fiona Wilson in 1994. Both marriages produced no more children.[27]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Announcements 2012". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 March 2019. 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. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alex Mapelli-Mozzi Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Un nuovo Royal Wedding: Beatrice di York sposa l'italiano Edoardo Mapelli-Mozzi". la Repubblica (in Italian). 21 August 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony". BBC News. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 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. ^ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00684963&tree=LEO
  6. ^ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LY3Z-8LF/gigliola-stoppani-1926-2003
  7. ^ "Constitution of the Italian Republic, Transitional and Final Provisions, XIV (page 42)" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Royal Warrant of April 27, 1932 on Foreign Titles".
  9. ^ "Titles (foreign)" (PDF). UK Government.
    - Kretschmer, A. (4 October 2019). "Princess Beatrice revelation: Heartbreaking reason why Edo cannot take aristocratic title". Daily Express. Retrieved 15 October 2019. They (Italian titles) may still be used as a courtesy, but have no legal standing.
    - "Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony". BBC News. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 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.
  10. ^ Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana, M-Z (22 Volume 26 ed.). Rome: Collegio araldico. 2000–2004. pp. 44–45. Retrieved 1 October 2019. [Translated from Italian to English] – The title of Conte [Co.] was created in 1913 in the Kingdom of Italy by King Victor Emmanuele III to all male descendants imposing the surname and noble family of Mozzi and is incorporated to the family of Mapelli ... *Mozzi (Mapelli-Mozzi) ... Co. Alessandro, n. 17 lug 1951 sp. 18 March 1978 Niky Durrows da cui: (a) Natalia, n. a Londra 28 ag. 1981; (b) Co. Edoardo, n. a Londra 19 November 1983
  11. ^ https://famiglie.societastoricalombarda.it/index.php?title=Mapelli
  12. ^ a b Art de France, Issue 1. The University of California. 1961. Retrieved 29 September 2019 – via Google Books. Ces décorations d'Ancy ellesmêmes sont proches de « la Vénus et les Amours » (collection Mapelli Mozzi, Ponte san Pietro°).
  13. ^ Turner, J. (2000). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art. Grove's Dictionaries. ISBN 1884446043. Retrieved 1 October 2019 – via 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....
  14. ^ a b "Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi". Country Life. Vol. 163. TI Media. 1978. p. 507. 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....
  15. ^ Ceresoli, L. (7 May 2019). "The dream villa in Ponte San Pietro". Bergamo Post. Retrieved 29 September 2019. The Villa is privately owned and is still partly inhabited". Sergio Limonta, guide of Promoisola, also confirmed: "It is the residence of private individuals who do not accept sightseeing. I [once] took some schoolchildren to visit it with the consent of the kind and aristocratic Mrs. Legler, one of the property, unfortunately now disappeared and therefore the visits for the herds have closed. Her husband was a Mapelli, the last descendants....
  16. ^ Fontaine, N. (2019). Origins of the Mapelli Mozzi family: the noble ancestors and the title of Earl (Count) of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Royales Histories. Retrieved 29 September 2019. (N.B. French to English translation) By the Italian Royal Decree of March 13, 1913, the King of Italy offered the Mapelli family a hereditary title. The male descendants all have the title of "Conte" (storytelling, in French).....The letters patent of July 17, 1913 add the name Mozzi to the title.....Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is therefore count , like his father, as his grandfather ... and as his son, Count Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi . However, since the abolition of the monarchy in Italy (in 1946), titles of nobility no longer have legal value. As for the United Kingdom, he can not recognize these titles of nobility either....As we have seen, the Mapelli Mozzi family belongs to a very old Lombard family , which still owns the sumptuous Villa Mapelli Mozzi located in Casatenovo , between Bergamo and Lake Como. The Mozzi family also owns Villa Mapelli Mozzi in Ponte San Pietro, built in 1770 by Count Enrico Mozzi. Edoardo also descends from the family of Tarsis but also Baroli . The great-grandfather of Edoardo, Count Luigi Mapelli Mozzi , also Knight of the Crown of Italy married in 1919, Nobile Maria Mercredes Baroli , descendant of the noble family of Baroli......
  17. ^ The Raven, volume LXI number 247, 1969, page 56. Downside School.
  18. ^ "South African Digest". South African Digest. Department of Information, South Africa. 1980. p. 4. Retrieved 29 September 2018 – via Google Books. Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi (left), the curator of the 143 drinking glasses (photographed) with Mr Jimmy Krugar President of the Senate
    - Denise Jordaan (1980). "The pageant of the past". To the Point News in Depth. Vol. 9, no. 36–52. African International Publishing Company. Retrieved 1 October 2019 – via Google Books. 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.....
  19. ^ https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp129749/eleanor-doris-nee-bainbridge-lady-burrows
  20. ^ "Sir Robert Abraham Burrows (1884-1964), Businessman". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 21 July 2020. Sir Robert Abraham Burrows is the father of Robert David Burrows whose daughter is Nicola Diana Burrows (b. 1956) who was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 2016.
  21. ^ Davies, A. (2014). Locomotives of the Lancashire Central Coalfield: The Walkden Yard Connection. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781445635040. Retrieved 20 July 2020. (page viii)...the Duke of York occasionally staying with him [Burrows] at his Bonis Hall home in Prestbury, Cheshire
  22. ^ Ball, Elliot (21 September 2021). "Who is Princess Beatrice's husband? The story behind Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi". The Herald (Plymouth). Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  23. ^ Young, Sarah (26 September 2019). "Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi: Who is Princess Beatrice's fiancé?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
    - Libro d'Oro della Nobilita Italiana. 2000–2004. p. 44.
  24. ^ Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana. M-Z. 2000–2004. p. 44-45. Retrieved 1 October 2019. Mapelli (Mapelli-Mozzi)...(a) Natalia, n. a Londra 28 ag. 1981; (b) Co Edoardo, n. a Londra 19 nov. 1983;...{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
    - "Princess Beatrice marries Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in private Windsor ceremony". BBC News. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  25. ^ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00719470&tree=LEO
  26. ^ https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=16570
  27. ^ https://www.tatler.com/article/who-are-princess-beatrices-in-laws
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