22 hours ago PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Hiding her baby's face makes me ask... Who DOES Princess Beatrice think she is?

Why such secrecy over a lovely little newborn who, frankly, looks pretty much like any other? How absurd to try to hide Athena's identity when no one would recognise her again.

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29 hours ago Princess Beatrice's daughter's birth allows family tradition to continue in special way

EXCLUSIVE: With the news of Athena Mapelli Mozzi's birth delighting royal fans, a leading expert has pointed out why her arrival sets course for a special family tradition to continue

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29 hours ago Royal princess kept baby news under wraps by using one unlikely tactic

It was revealed that another princess had welcomed a child just hours after Princess Beatrice revealed her baby news - and this royal's news was especially surprising as she'd not previously announced the impending arrival

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31 hours ago Special way birth of Princess Beatrice's daughter allows family tradition to continue

With the news of Athena Mapelli Mozzi's birth delighting royal fans, a leading expert has pointed out why her arrival sets course for a special family tradition to continue

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33 hours ago Princess Beatrice has chosen to protect her new baby’s privacy online – good for her | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Until recently, everyone’s children were waving from the proverbial balcony on social media. You know the tide has turned when even the royals have stoppedMaybe I shouldn’t admit this, but when I saw the photo of Princess Beatrice’s new baby, I laughed. Hear me out, though, before you decide I’m a horrible person: I expect baby Athena – lovely name – is perfectly lovely, and having arrived early, as my son did, will have quite a lot of feeding and growing to be getting on with. I say I “expect” she is, because we don’t actually know what Athena looks like. In the photograph her parents released of her, her entire face is hidden by her own raised sleeve in a Garbo-esque plea of “I want to be alone”.So yes, I did laugh, but I also thought, well, fair play. I’m not one of those members of the British public who feels entitled to information about the royals, or photographs of their offspring. Athena is, as far as I’m concerned, entitled to her privacy and good on her parents for trying...

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