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131-553: Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988) is a member of the British royal family . She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York , and Sarah, Duchess of York . She is a niece of King Charles III . Born fifth in line of succession to the British throne , she is now ninth. Beatrice attended St George's School, Ascot , before studying at Goldsmiths College , graduating with
262-538: A 2021 interview , the Duchess of Sussex, who is of biracial heritage, relayed second-hand that there had been "concerns and conversations" within the royal family about the skin colour of their son, Archie , while the Duke of Sussex stated it was a single instance. The interview received a mixed reaction from the British public and media, and several of their claims were called into question. The Duke of Cambridge said
393-571: A European Securities and Markets Authority investigation for its response to the scandal. An investigation by the Intercept , the Nation , and DeSmog found that FT is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the fossil fuel industry. Journalists who cover climate change for FT are concerned that conflicts of interest with the companies and industries that caused climate change and obstructed action will reduce
524-628: A centrist to centre-right liberal , neo-liberal , and conservative-liberal newspaper. The Financial Times is headquartered in Bracken House at 1 Friday Street, near the city's financial centre, where it maintains its publishing house, corporate centre, and main editorial office. The FT was launched as the London Financial Guide on 10 January 1888, renaming itself the Financial Times on 13 February
655-714: A hard Brexit . In respect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine , FT commentator Martin Wolf expressed support for Ukraine. Two years before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia , the FT offered an interview to the Russian President Vladimir Putin . The interview received praise, as it offered an unusual access to the Russian leader's thinking. President Putin used the interview to state his opinions about
786-430: A "New Newsroom" project to integrate the newspaper more closely with FT.com. At the same time it announced plans to cut the editorial staff from 525 to 475. In August 2006 it announced that all the required job cuts had been achieved through voluntary layoffs. A number of former FT journalists have gone on to high-profile jobs in journalism, politics and business. Robert Thomson , previously the paper's US managing editor,
917-635: A 50% shareholding in The Economist , which was sold to the Agnelli family for £469 million. Related publications include the Financial Times , FT.com, FT Search Inc., the publishing imprint FT Press and numerous joint ventures. In November 2013 it agreed to sell Mergermarket , an online intelligence reporting business, to the London private equity investor BC Partners. In addition, the FT Group has
1048-965: A British-Italian Olympic alpine skier . The title of Count was awarded to all legitimate male-line descendants of the Mapelli Mozzi family in 1913 by King Victor Emmanuel III of the Kingdom of Italy ; however, the title is not officially recognised in the Republic of Italy or the UK. The couple are believed to have begun dating in September 2018. Together, they attended the May 2019 wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor , Beatrice's second cousin once removed. Princess Beatrice and Mozzi became engaged in Italy in September 2019, with their engagement formally announced by
1179-616: A Conservative peer), John Kingman (former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild's ), George Graham ( RBS banker), Andrew Balls (head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson (former Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ). The FT publishes a Saturday edition of the newspaper titled the Financial Times Weekend . It consists of international economic and political news, Companies & Markets , Life & Arts , House & Home and FT Magazine . HTSI (originally How to Spend It )
1310-832: A German corporate, focusing on the lead author of the FT series, Dan McCrum . The Public prosecutor's office in Munich subsequently launched an investigation. After the formal complaint of an investor, Wirecard and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the responsible state's attorney announced investigations into several FT journalists. On 22 June 2020 and after 18 months of investigations and an external audit, Wirecard announced that €1.9 billion worth of cash reported in its accounts "may not exist". The company subsequently filed for insolvency . BaFin itself became subject of
1441-581: A bachelor's degree in history. She was briefly employed at the Foreign Office and Sony Pictures before joining software company Afiniti as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. Beatrice also works privately with a number of charitable organisations, including the Teenage Cancer Trust and Outward Bound . She married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , a property developer and English-born Italian noble , in 2020. Their daughter, Sienna,
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#17327866128851572-533: A business-related game called "In the Pink" (a phrase meaning "in good health", also a reference to the colour of the newspaper and to the phrase "in the red" meaning to be making a loss). Each player was put in the virtual role of Chief Executive and the goal was to have the highest profit when the game closes. The winner of the game (the player who makes the highest profit) was to receive a real monetary prize of £10,000. The game ran from 1 May to 28 June 2006. In 2019,
1703-541: A charity her father founded to amplify and accelerate entrepreneurs' business ideas. Beatrice took part in a South Asia Tour 2016 that lasted nine days. She visited Nepal , India , and Bhutan on behalf of the Franks Family Foundation (FFF), and Jamgon Kongtrul Eyes Centres, a free micro-surgical cataract programme in technical collaboration with Nepal's Tilganga Eye Centre under Nepali eye surgeon Sanduk Ruit's direction. A few weeks later, she attended
1834-542: A financial information company that provides sales and market intelligence for investment professionals in North America, Europe and Asia. FT Knowledge is an associated company which offers educational products and services. FT Knowledge has offered the "Introducing the City" course (which is a series of Wednesday night lectures and seminars, as well as weekend events) during each autumn and spring since 2000. FT Predict
1965-469: A financial newspaper, it does also contain TV listings, weather and other more informal articles. In 2021 and 2022, the outlet began focusing more on the cryptocurrency industry, launching a Digital Assets Dashboard, publishing multi-asset crypto indexes, starting a Cryptofinance newsletter dedicated to digital assets, and recruiting more journalists to cover the sector. About 110 of its 475 journalists are outside
2096-494: A former defence correspondent and Lex columnist, was chief executive of the publishing company CMP before becoming chief executive of TSL Education, publisher of the Times Educational Supplement . David Jones, at one time the FT ' s Night Editor, then became Head of IT. He was a key figure in the newspaper's transformation from hot metal to electronic composition and then onto full-page pagination in
2227-406: A joint venture with a German publishing firm, Gruner + Jahr . In January 2008 the FT sold its 50% stake to its German partner. FT Deutschland never made a profit and is said to have accumulated losses of €250 million over 12 years. It closed on 7 December 2012. The Financial Times launched a new weekly supplement for the fund management industry on 4 February 2002. FT fund management (FTfm)
2358-505: A limited number of free articles during any one month before asking them to pay. Four years later the FT launched its HTML5 mobile internet app. Smartphones and tablets now drive 12% of subscriptions and 19% of traffic to FT.com. In 2012, the number of digital subscribers surpassed the circulation of the newspaper for the first time and the FT drew almost half of its revenue from subscriptions rather than advertising. The FT has been available on Bloomberg Terminal since 2010 and on
2489-636: A manor home in the Cotswolds in late 2022. Beatrice is expecting her second child in early 2025. In 2002, Beatrice visited children living with HIV in Russia . In Britain, she supported Springboard for Children (a literacy project for primary-school children with learning difficulties) and the Teenage Cancer Trust . In an interview to mark her 18th birthday, Beatrice said she wanted to use her position to assist others through charity work; she had already undertaken charitable duties alongside her mother through
2620-468: A model of family life". The scandals contributed to the public's unwillingness to pay for the repairs to Windsor Castle after the 1992 fire . A further " PR disaster" was the royal family's initial response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales , in 1997. In the 1990s, the royal family formed the Way Ahead Group, made up of senior family members and advisers and headed by Elizabeth II, in
2751-402: A one-page consumer goods feature in the newspaper, which was edited by Sheila Black, the FT 's first female journalist, a former actor. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, FT launched the online version of this publication on 3 October 2009. Some media commentators were taken aback by the online launch of a website supporting conspicuous consumption during the financial austerity of
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#17327866128852882-430: A personal finance magazine and website; "FT Money", a weekly personal finance supplement in "FT Weekend"; FT Wealth , a magazine for the global high-net-worth community and FTfm, a weekly review of the global fund management industry, Money Management and FT Adviser . The institutional segment includes: The Banker , This Is Africa , fDi Intelligence and Professional Wealth Management (PWM). Money-Media,
3013-475: A policy (then most unusual in Fleet Street ) of direct recruitment of new university graduates, mainly from Oxbridge, as its trainee journalists. Many of them proceeded to have distinguished careers elsewhere in journalism and British public life and became the mainstay of the paper's own editorial strengths until the 1990s. The first such 'direct recruit' was future leading British economist Andrew Shonfield;
3144-594: A private investigator working for a News of the World journalist. A 2021 BBC documentary suggested that briefings and counter-briefings from different royal households was the reason behind the negative coverage about members of the royal family. Buckingham Palace, Clarence House and Kensington Palace, which represented the Queen, the then Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge respectively, described these suggestions as "overblown and unfounded claims". Senior members of
3275-699: A prominent focus on financial journalism and economic analysis rather than generalist reporting , drawing both criticism and acclaim. It sponsors an annual book award and publishes a " Person of the Year " feature. The paper was founded in January 1888 as the London Financial Guide before rebranding a month later as the Financial Times . It was first circulated around metropolitan London by James Sheridan , who, along with his brother and Horatio Bottomley , sought to report on city business opposite
3406-507: A quest to change in accordance with public opinion. The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in April 2011 led to a "tide of goodwill", and by Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 the royal family's image had recovered. A 2019 YouGov poll showed that two-thirds of British people were in favour of maintaining the royal family. The role and public relations of the extended royal family again came under increased scrutiny due to
3537-557: A relationship with Paolo Liuzzo, an American whose previous charge for assault and battery caused controversy at the time. For ten years, until July 2016, she was in a relationship with Virgin Galactic businessman Dave Clark. In March 2019, Beatrice attended a fundraising event at the National Portrait Gallery, London , accompanied by property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , the son of Alex Mapelli-Mozzi ,
3668-461: A reporter for the Financial Times generated a controversy about the editorial independence of the paper from outside political pressure. The controversy followed the withdrawal by the newspaper's editor of an opinion piece by FT 's Brussels correspondent Mehreen Khan that was critical of French President Emmanuel Macron 's policy towards Muslim minorities in France. The piece was withdrawn from
3799-622: A sales assistant at Selfridges . She also worked at the Foreign Office's press office for a period of time without receiving a salary. It was also reported in 2008 that Beatrice was interested in pursuing a career at the Financial Times website. Beatrice was the first member of the family to appear in a non-documentary film when she had a small, non-speaking role as an extra in The Young Victoria (2009), based on
3930-492: A separate arm of Financial Publishing, delivers a range of digital information services for fund management professionals around the globe, including: Ignites, Ignites Europe, Ignites Asia, FundFire and BoardIQ. Financial Publishing includes publications ( Pensions Expert and Deutsche Pensions & Investmentnachrichten ) and events ( Investment Expert ) for the European pensions industry. The group also publishes MandateWire,
4061-716: A trip to Canada in 1939 and in 1940 during The Blitz in London. Annual events attended by the royal family include the State Opening of Parliament , Trooping the Colour , and the National Service of Remembrance . According to historian Robert Lacey , Queen Elizabeth II once said that investitures of the honours recipients are the most important thing she does. Besides the King, Prince William and Princess Anne also perform investitures. Family members represent
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4192-450: A unit called FT Specialist, which is a provider of specialist information on retail, personal and institutional finance segments. It publishes The Banker , Money Management and FT Adviser (a publication targeted to the financial intermediary market), fDi Intelligence and Professional Wealth Management (PWM). In 2013, FT Specialist acquired a majority stake in medical publisher Endpoints News. The Financial Times Group announced
4323-569: Is Buckingham Palace . Announcements of the births and deaths of members of the royal family are traditionally attached to its front railings. Both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle , the monarch's weekend home in Berkshire , are used to host state visits . The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Hillsborough Castle serve as official royal residences when the monarch is in Scotland or Northern Ireland, respectively. Clarence House served as
4454-640: Is Frogmore Cottage , near Windsor. The Duke of York lives at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park , while the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh reside at Bagshot Park in Surrey . Financial Times The Financial Times ( FT ) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs . Based in London ,
4585-405: Is Mountbatten-Windsor , reflecting the name taken by her Greek-born husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , upon his naturalisation . A surname is generally not needed by members of the royal family who are entitled to the titles of prince or princess and the style His or Her Royal Highness. Such individuals use surnames on official documents such as marriage registers , however. Members of
4716-533: Is Vice President of Partnerships and Strategy at Afiniti . She is also in charge of an Afiniti programme to engage senior business chiefs around the world to support women in leadership. She works with the programme through charity endeavours and speaking engagements. In January 2022, it was reported that Beatrice had lost her taxpayer-funded police security in 2011, supposedly after her uncle Charles III (then Prince of Wales) intervened. Beatrice and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh accompanied Queen Elizabeth II to
4847-408: Is a weekly magazine published with FT Weekend . Founded and launched by Julia Carrick with Lucia van der Post as founding editor, its articles concern luxury goods such as yachts , mansions , apartments , horlogerie , haute couture and automobiles , as well as fashion and columns by individuals in the arts, gardening, food, and hotel and travel industries. How to Spend It started in 1967 as
4978-563: Is an editorial service on forecasted economic events hosted by the Financial Times that allows users to buy and sell contracts based on future financial, political and news-driven events by spending fictional Financial Times Dollars (FT$ ). Based on the assumptions displayed in James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds , this contest allows people to use forecasted economic events to observe future occurrences while competing for weekly and monthly prizes. The Financial Times also ran
5109-513: Is independent from its editorial board, and it is considered a newspaper of record . Due to its history of economic commentary, the FT publishes a variety of financial indices , primarily the FTSE All-Share Index . Since the late 20th century, its typical depth of coverage has linked the paper with a white-collar , educated, and financially literate readership. Because of this tendency, the FT has traditionally been regarded as
5240-490: Is often characterised by its light-pink (salmon) newsprint . It is supplemented by its lifestyle magazine ( FT Magazine ) , weekend edition ( FT Weekend ) and some industry publications. The editorial stance of the Financial Times centres on economic liberalism , particularly advocacy of free trade and free markets . Since its founding, it has supported liberal democracy , favouring classically liberal politics and policies from international governments; its newsroom
5371-540: Is published in London. The name of the magazine was changed in 2022 from How to Spend It to HTSI . The FT advocates free markets , and is in favour of globalisation . During the 1980s, it supported Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan 's monetarist policies. It has supported the UK Labour Party in the past, including at the general election in 1992 when Neil Kinnock was Labour leader. The FT 's editorials tend to be pro-European . The FT
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5502-574: The Financial News . The succeeding half-century of competition between the two papers eventually culminated in a 1945 merger , led by Brendan Bracken , which established it as one of the largest business newspapers in the world. Globalisation from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries facilitated editorial expansion for the FT , with the paper adding opinion columns, special reports, political cartoons , readers' letters , book reviews, technology articles and global politics features. The paper
5633-484: The 2024 United States presidential election . On 23 July 2015, Nikkei, Inc. agreed to buy the Financial Times Group, a division of Pearson plc since 1957, for £844m (US$ 1.32 billion) and the acquisition was completed on 30 November 2015. Under the transaction agreement, Pearson retained the publishing rights to FT Press and licensed the trademark from Nikkei. Until August 2015 the FT group had
5764-542: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (later BP ), British-American Tobacco , Lever Brothers (later Unilever ) and Shell . The oil and financial sectors were included decades later. The FTSE All-Share Index , the first of the FTSE series of indices, was created in 1962, comprising the largest 594 UK companies by market capitalisation. The letters F-T-S-E represented that FTSE was a joint venture between
5895-524: The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Chelsea , London. At birth, Sienna was eleventh in line to the throne, and following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022, she became tenth in line. Sienna was christened at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace , on 29 April 2022. Beatrice and her husband lived at first in a four-bedroom apartment at St James's Palace , but reportedly moved to
6026-478: The Court Circular , a list of daily appointments and events attended by the royal family. Public appearances are often accompanied by walkabouts, where royals greet and converse with members of the public outside events. The start of this tradition is sometimes attributed to a trip Queen Elizabeth II made in 1970 to Australia and New Zealand. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother also interacted with crowds on
6157-510: The Court Circular . British royal family The British royal family comprises King Charles III and his close relations. There is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member, although the Royal Household has issued different lists outlining who is a part of the royal family. Members often support the monarch in undertaking public engagements, and pursue charitable work and interests. Members of
6288-611: The FT to reverse course and back Labour from 1992 until 2010 , when the FT returned to the Conservative Party. Euroscepticism further drove a wedge between the FT and the Conservatives in 2019 , when the paper refused to make an endorsement, opposed to Labour's socialist economic policies (for wanting to "reverse, not revise, the Thatcherite revolution of the 1980s") and the Conservatives' commitment to
6419-408: The FT website on the same day as its publication. President Macron subsequently published a letter in the FT directly responding to the arguments of the original opinion piece, even if the original opinion piece was no longer available on the website of the newspaper. The editor of the FT , Roula Khalaf , who took the decision to withdraw the initial article, acknowledged having been contacted by
6550-729: The FTSE 350 Index , the FTSE SmallCap Index , the FTSE AIM UK 50 Index and FTSE AIM 100 Index as well as the FTSE AIM All-Share Index for stocks, and the FTSE UK Gilt Indices for government bonds. In 2021, the Financial Times started publishing three multi-asset indexes with Wilshire Associates covering combinations of the top five cryptocurrencies. In July 2006, the FT announced
6681-815: The Financial News in the 1930s, and moved to the Financial Times when the two merged. Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government—including Nigel Lawson (former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England 's monetary policy committee), Martin Taylor (former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson (chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner (former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud (former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now
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#17327866128856812-688: The Financial Times ( F-T ) and the London Stock Exchange ( S-E ). On 13 February 1984 the FTSE 100 was introduced, representing about eighty per cent of the London Stock Exchange's value. FTSE Group was made an independent company in 1995. The first of several overseas offices was opened in New York City in 1999; Paris followed in early 2000, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and San Francisco in 2001, Madrid in 2002 and Tokyo in 2003. Other well-known FTSE indices include
6943-474: The Financial Times announced it was investing in Sifted , a digital-only news site and newsletter covering European startups . The Financial Times' initial 25% stake was subsequently diluted to 14% due to later investments from others. This marked the start of a planned 7-year strategic relationship with Sifted. The Financial Times collates and publishes a number of financial market indices , which reflect
7074-422: The Financial Times from Lord Camrose, and, following 57 years of rivalry, merged it with the Financial News to form a single six-page newspaper. The Financial Times had a higher circulation, while the Financial News provided much of the editorial talent. The Lex column was also introduced from Financial News . Gordon Newton , a Cambridge graduate, took over as editor in 1949, and immediately introduced
7205-531: The Isle of Wight in 2014, whose governor had been Beatrice's namesake Princess Beatrice , daughter of Queen Victoria. She accompanied her father during an official engagement in the United Arab Emirates on 24 November 2014. On 17 September 2022, during the period of official mourning for Queen Elizabeth II , Beatrice joined her sister and six cousins to mount a 15-minute vigil around the coffin of
7336-614: The WSJ was second. In 2022, the FT launched FT Edit, a low-price app aimed at attracting a younger audience. The FT is split into two sections. The first section covers domestic and international news, editorial commentary on politics and economics from FT journalists such as Martin Wolf , Gillian Tett and Edward Luce , and opinion pieces from globally renowned leaders, policymakers, academics and commentators. The second section consists of financial data and news about companies and markets. Despite being generally regarded as primarily
7467-587: The Wisers platform since 2013. From 2015, instead of the metered paywall on the website, visitors were given unlimited free access for one month, after which they needed to subscribe. Pearson sold the Financial Times Group to Nikkei, Inc. for £ 844 million ( US$ 1.32 billion) in July 2015. In 2016, the Financial Times acquired a controlling stake in Alpha Grid, a London-based media company specialising in
7598-406: The advent of television , however, the media started paying less respect to the royal family's privacy. Princes William and Harry have had informal arrangements with the press whereby they would be left alone by the paparazzi during their education in return for invitations to staged photograph opportunities. William has continued the practice with his family posts on Instagram . Relations between
7729-579: The late-2000s recession . The magazine has been derided in rival publishers' blogs, as "repellent" in the Telegraph and "a latter-day Ab Fab manual" in the Guardian . A 'well-thumbed' copy of the supplement was found when rebel forces broke into Colonel Gaddafi 's Tripoli compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War . In September 2021, an Arabic version of HTSI was launched by Othman Al Omeir , founder of Elaph online newspaper. HTSI Arabic
7860-466: The Élysée Palace regarding the article, and defended her decision on the basis purely of several factual errors in the original piece by Mehreen Khan. In January 2019, the FT began a series of investigative articles detailing fraud suspicions at German payments group Wirecard . When the Wirecard share price plunged, German news media speculated that market manipulation was behind this attack on
7991-476: The 1970s, the FT began international expansion, facilitated by developments in technology and the growing acceptance of English as the international language of business. On 1 January 1979 the first FT (Continental Europe edition) was printed outside the UK, in Frankfurt; printing in the U.S. began in July 1985. Since then, with increased international coverage, the FT has become a global newspaper, printed in 22 locations with five international editions to serve
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#17327866128858122-405: The 1990s. He went on to become Head of Technology for the Trinity Mirror Group. Sir Geoffrey Owen was the editor of the Financial Times from 1981 to 1990. He joined the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics as Director of Business Policy in 1991 and was appointed Senior Fellow, Institute of Management, in 1997. He continues his work there. During his tenure at
8253-431: The 2016 Asia Game Changer Awards Dinner at the United Nations in New York City, which honoured Ruit and others. Beatrice and Charles Rockefeller presented Ruit with his Asia Society Asia Game Changer award. Beatrice is the founder of Big Change, a charity she established with six of her friends to encourage young people to develop skills "outside a traditional academic curriculum". In 2012, she climbed Mont Blanc in aid of
8384-409: The 2nd Earl of Snowdon); the Duchess of Roxburghe (now Lady Jane Dawnay); Peter Palumbo ; Gabrielle Greenall; and Carolyn Cotterell. Her name, an unexpected choice, was not announced until almost two weeks after her birth. Her younger sister, Princess Eugenie , was born in 1990. Beatrice's parents divorced amicably when she was seven years old and agreed to joint custody of their two children. After
8515-410: The Caribbean tour of the then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations , the family encountered criticism from a number of political figures and the press, given their past connections to colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade via the Royal African Company . Reparations for slavery emerged as a major demand of protesters during the couple's visit. Both
8646-410: The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have their official London residences and offices at apartments in Kensington Palace , London. The former and their children officially moved into Adelaide Cottage in Windsor Home Park in September 2022. The Duke and Duchess of Kent reside in Wren House in the grounds of Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's official residence in the United Kingdom
8777-421: The Duke of Edinburgh. In May 2019, she was honoured at a gala in New York City for her work with Friends Without a Border . She has supported the Kairos HQ , a non-profit organisation of entrepreneurs at universities in China, Europe, India and the US. In April 2022 and in her capacity as an ambassador for the charity Made By Dyslexia, Beatrice and her husband took part in the first World Dyslexia Assembly, which
8908-444: The Duke of York's Office on 26 September. The wedding was scheduled to take place on 29 May 2020 at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace , followed by a private reception in the gardens of Buckingham Palace , but first the reception and then the wedding itself were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic . The wedding was eventually held in private on 17 July 2020, at the Royal Chapel of All Saints , Royal Lodge, Windsor, and
9039-460: The Duke of York's friendship with convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell , and allegations of sexual abuse , along with his unapologetic conduct in the 2019 interview about these subjects and subsequent 2021 lawsuit . In June 2019, the royal family, several members of which advocate for environmental causes, faced criticism after it was revealed that they "had doubled [their] carbon footprint from business travel". In
9170-509: The Duke of York, the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Sussex do not currently carry out royal duties. Other members of the royal family holding royal rank who do not carry out official duties are: Prince George , Princess Charlotte , and Prince Louis of Wales ; Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex ; Princess Beatrice ; Princess Eugenie ; the Duchess of Kent ; and Prince Michael of Kent and his wife . Notes The monarch's children and grandchildren (if they are children of
9301-522: The Eurosceptic elements in her party. The FT declared 2019 general election a "fateful election" that "offers no good choices". In the 2024 general election , the FT endorsed the Labour Party again, expressing the need for a "fresh start", while cautioning "Labour's interventionist instincts and fervour for regulation". In the 2008 United States presidential election , the Financial Times endorsed Barack Obama . While it raised concerns over hints of protectionism , it praised his ability to "engage
9432-518: The Princess's bulimia and self-harming was published; her private telephone conversations surfaced, as did the Prince's intimate telephone conversations with his lover, Camilla Parker Bowles; the Duke and Duchess of York separated; and photographs of the topless Duchess having her toes sucked by another man appeared in tabloids. Historian Robert Lacey said that this "put paid to any claim to being
9563-678: The UK that are disadvantaged. Princess Anne started The Princess Royal Trust for Carers , which helps unpaid carers, giving them emotional support and information about benefit claims and disability aids. The Earl and Countess of Wessex (as the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were then known) founded the Wessex Youth Trust, since renamed The Earl and Countess of Wessex Charitable Trust, in 1999. The Prince and Princess of Wales are founding patrons of The Royal Foundation , whose projects revolve around mental health , conservation, early childhood, and emergency responders . In 2019 following
9694-543: The UK, continental Europe, the U.S., Asia and the Middle East. The European edition is distributed throughout continental Europe and Africa. It is printed Monday to Saturday at five centres across Europe, reporting on matters concerning the European Union, the euro and European corporate affairs. In 1994 FT launched a luxury lifestyle magazine, How To Spend It . In 2009 it launched a standalone website for
9825-491: The United Kingdom. The Lex column is a daily feature on the back page of the first section. It features analyses and opinions covering global economics and finance. The FT calls Lex its agenda-setting column. The column first appeared on Monday, 1 October 1945. The name may originally have stood for Lex Mercatoria , a Latin expression meaning literally "merchant law". It was conceived by Hargreaves Parkinson for
9956-453: The accession and early reign of her ancestor Queen Victoria . For a while, she was a paid intern at Sony Pictures , but she resigned after the hacking incident that affected the company in late 2014. In April 2015, it was reported that Beatrice had decided to move to New York City. As of April 2017, Beatrice had a full-time job and split her time between London and New York City. She is known as Beatrice York in her professional life and
10087-496: The acquisition of Alpha Grid, and conferences and events through Financial Times Live and extends the FT 's traditional commercial offering into a wider set of integrated services. In 2020, reporter Mark Di Stefano resigned from the Financial Times after hacking into Zoom calls at other media organisations including The Independent and the Evening Standard . In 2020, the retraction of an opinion piece by
10218-687: The best-dressed royals. In May 2018, she attended the Met Gala in New York City . In October 2018, she undertook an extended tour of Laos to "raise the profile of the UK" there, and also participated in the Luang Prabang Half Marathon for Children. In March 2019, Beatrice was elected to the board of the UK charity the Outward Bound Trust as a trustee, after her father took over the patronage from his father,
10349-459: The beta launch of newssift, part of FT Search, in March 2009. Newssift.com is a next-generation search tool for business professionals that indexes millions of articles from thousands of global business news sources, not just the FT . The Financial Times Group acquired Money Media (an online news and commentary site for the industry) and Exec-Appointments (an online recruitment specialist site for
10480-518: The changing value of their constituent parts. The longest-running of these was the former Financial News Index , started on 1 July 1935 by the Financial News . The FT published a similar index; this was replaced by the Financial News Index — which was then renamed the Financial Times (FT) Index — on 1 January 1947. The index started as an index of industrial shares, and companies with dominant overseas interests were excluded, such as
10611-521: The charity. In 2016, with Richard Branson and his children, she participated in the fundraising challenge Virgin Strive Challenge, which involved climbing Mount Etna . In 2017, Beatrice helped promote the anti-bullying book Be Cool Be Nice and gave an interview to Vogue at a House of Lords event, speaking about her own experiences with being bullied for her fashion choices in her early adulthood. Hello! magazine later named her one of
10742-410: The country's attention", his calls for a bipartisan politics, and his plans for " comprehensive health-care reform ". The FT favoured Obama again in the 2012 United States presidential election . The FT endorsed Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election , Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election, and Kamala Harris in
10873-564: The credibility of their reporting on climate change and cause readers to downplay the climate crisis . According to the Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits among most senior financial decision makers in the world's largest financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 36% of the sample population, 11% more than The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ), its main rival. The Economist , which
11004-528: The development and production of quality branded content across a range of channels, including broadcast, video, digital, social and events. In 2018, the Financial Times acquired a controlling stake in Longitude , a specialist provider of thought leadership and research services to a multinational corporate and institutional client base. This investment built on the Financial Times ' recent growth in several business areas, including branded content via
11135-488: The divorce, the Queen provided her parents with £1.4 million to set up a trust fund for her and Eugenie. Beatrice and her sister frequently travelled abroad always with one or both of their parents. Beatrice began her early education at the independent Upton House School in Windsor , in 1991. She and her sister then attended the independent Coworth Park School (now Coworth Flexlands School). Beatrice continued her education at
11266-600: The executive jobs market). The FT Group once had a 13.85% stake in Business Standard Ltd of India, the publisher of the Business Standard . It sold this stake in April 2008 and has entered into an agreement with Network 18 to launch the Financial Times in India, though it is speculated that they may find it difficult to do so, as the brand 'Financial Times' in India is owned by The Times Group ,
11397-664: The family among a group of people who they most associated with British culture . Members are expected to promote British industry. Royals are typically members of the Church of England , headed by the monarch. When in Scotland they attend the Church of Scotland as members and some have served as Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland . Members of the royal family are patrons for approximately 3,000 charities, and have also started their own nonprofit organisations. The King started The Prince's Trust , which helps young people in
11528-414: The family as " soft power assets". Given the royal family's public role and activities, it is sometimes referred to by courtiers as "The Firm", a term that originated with George VI. Members of the royal family are politically and commercially independent, avoiding conflict of interest with their public roles. The royal family are considered British cultural icons , with young adults from abroad naming
11659-635: The family. The website of the royal family provides a list of "Members of the Royal Family" comprising King Charles III and Queen Camilla ; William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales ; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex ; Prince Andrew, Duke of York ; Anne, Princess Royal ; Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh ; Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester ; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent ; and Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy . Among them,
11790-540: The first royal contemporary art painting. Titled Royal Love , it was painted at Royal Lodge and exhibited at Masterpiece London before being sold with all proceeds from the sale donated by McDonald to Children in Crisis. In 2018, Children in Crisis merged with Street Child, a children's charity active in multiple countries, with Beatrice serving as its ambassador. She is also a supporter of the Pitch@Palace initiative,
11921-629: The global 2007–2008 financial crisis , but on balance it backed the Conservatives , while questioning their tendency to Euroscepticism . In the 2015 general election , the FT called for the continuation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that had governed for the previous five years. In the 2017 general election , an FT editorial reluctantly backed Conservative Theresa May over Labour Jeremy Corbyn , while warning about her stance on immigration and
12052-798: The income of the Duchy of Lancaster , and the Prince of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall . The security expenses for the royal family are typically covered by the Metropolitan Police rather than the sovereign grant. The royal family, the Home Office , and the Metropolitan Police decide which members have a right to taxpayer-funded police security. Extended members do not retain automatic right to protection; in 2011, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie ceased receiving police security. The sovereign's official residence in London
12183-462: The independent St George's School in Ascot , where she was a pupil from 2000 to 2007. She was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of seven and went public with the diagnosis in 2005. She delayed sitting her GCSE exams for one year. She remained at St George's to take her A-Levels , earning an 'A' in drama, a 'B' in history, and a 'B' in film studies. She was elected Head Girl in her final year, and
12314-509: The late 1990s. Between 1997 and 2000, the site underwent several revamps and changes of strategy, as the FT Group and Pearson reacted to the changes online. FT introduced subscription services in 2002. FT.com is one of the few UK news sites successfully funded by individual subscription. In 1997, the FT launched a U.S. edition, printed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Orlando and Washington, D.C., although
12445-403: The late Queen, as it lay in state at Westminster Hall . On 19 September, she joined other family members at the state funeral. Upon the accession of Charles III, her position in the line of succession made Beatrice eligible to be appointed a Counsellor of State . In this role she can potentially carry out official duties while the monarch is abroad or unwell. In 2006, Beatrice was briefly in
12576-564: The list by special legislation. Each year the family "carries out over 2,000 official engagements throughout the UK and worldwide", entertaining 70,000 guests and answering 100,000 letters. Engagements include state funerals, national festivities, garden parties, receptions, and visits to the Armed Forces . Many members have served in the Armed Forces themselves, including the King's brothers and sons. Engagements are recorded in
12707-458: The magazine. On 13 May 1995 the Financial Times group made its first foray into the online world with the launch of FT.com. This provided a summary of news from around the globe, which was supplemented in February 1996 with stock price coverage. The second-generation site was launched in spring 1996. The site was funded by advertising and contributed to the online advertising market in the UK in
12838-406: The media and British royals have been destabilized by the rise of the digital media , with the quantity of articles becoming paramount toward gaining advertising revenue , with neither side able to exercise control. In the 2000s, the phones of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and Prince Harry and his then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy , were hacked multiple times by media outlets, most notably by
12969-456: The monarch on official visits and tours to other countries as ambassadors to foster diplomatic relations. They have also attended Commonwealth meetings on the monarch's behalf. The royal family also participates in state visits on the advice of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , which includes the welcoming of dignitaries and a formal banquet. Journalist James Forsyth has referred to
13100-503: The monarch's sons), and the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, are automatically entitled to be known as prince or princess with the style His or Her Royal Highness (HRH). Peerages , often dukedoms , are bestowed upon most princes prior to marriage. Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall , children of the King's sister, Princess Anne, are, therefore, not prince and princess. Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex , though entitled to
13231-514: The negative reactions to the " Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal " interview, the Duke of York was forced to resign from public roles; the retirement became permanent in 2020. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex permanently withdrew from royal duties in early 2020. Following these departures, there is a shortage of royal family members to cover the increasing number of patronages and engagements. Royal biographer Penny Junor says that
13362-456: The newspaper was first printed outside New York City in 1985. In September 1998 the FT became the first UK-based newspaper to sell more copies internationally than within the UK. In 2000 the Financial Times started publishing a German-language edition, Financial Times Deutschland , with a news and editorial team based in Hamburg. Its initial circulation in 2003 was 90,000. It was originally
13493-817: The official residence of Charles III from 2003, when he was Prince of Wales, until he ascended to the throne on 8 September 2022. Another London residence of his when Prince of Wales was St James's Palace , which he shared with the Princess Royal and Princess Alexandra. Princess Alexandra also resides at Thatched House Lodge in Richmond . The King also privately owns Sandringham House in Norfolk and Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, which are his personal property. He inherited them from Elizabeth II upon her death. The Prince and Princess of Wales and
13624-540: The official wedding portraits released by Buckingham Palace. Her wedding dress was a remodelled Norman Hartnell dress that was lent by the Queen, and she wore the Queen Mary Fringe Tiara that was also worn by the Queen at her own wedding. Princess Beatrice has a stepson, Christopher Woolf ("Wolfie"), her husband's child from a relationship with architect Dara Huang . She gave birth to a daughter, Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi, on 18 September 2021 at
13755-550: The paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nikkei , with core editorial offices across Britain, the United States and continental Europe. In July 2015, Pearson sold the publication to Nikkei for £ 844 million ( US$ 1.32 billion) after owning it since 1957. In 2019, it reported one million paying subscriptions, three-quarters of which were digital subscriptions. In 2023, it was reported to have 1.3 million subscribers of which 1.2 million were digital. The newspaper has
13886-714: The public and the media. The following month, the headpiece was auctioned for £81,000 on eBay , with the proceeds going to two charities: UNICEF and Children in Crisis. In November 2012, Beatrice became a patron of the York Musical Society. In April 2013, she became royal patron of the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre, a charity that she credits with helping her overcome her own academic challenges resulting from dyslexia. In 2016, Beatrice, her mother, and her sister Eugenie collaborated with British contemporary artist Teddy McDonald to create
14017-402: The publisher of The Times of India and The Economic Times . The group also publishes America's Intelligence Wire , a daily general newswire service. The Financial Times' Financial Publishing division (formerly FT Business) provides print and online content for retail, personal and institutional finance audiences. Examples of publications and services include: Investors Chronicle ,
14148-405: The recruitment of Richard Lambert from Oxford, himself a future Editor of the FT . Meanwhile, Pearson had bought the paper in 1957. Over the years, the paper grew in size, readership and breadth of coverage. It established correspondents in cities around the world, reflecting a renewed impetus in the world economy towards globalisation . As cross-border trade and capital flows increased during
14279-485: The royal family are regarded as British and world cultural icons . The Lord Chamberlain 's "List of the Royal Family" published in August 2020 mentions all of King George VI 's descendants and their spouses (including Sarah, Duchess of York , who is divorced), along with Queen Elizabeth II 's cousins with royal rank and their spouses. The list applies for the purposes of regulating the use of royal symbols and images of
14410-478: The royal family has presented itself "as the model family" since the 1930s. Author Edward Owen wrote that during the Second World War , the monarchy sought an image of a "more informal and vulnerable family" that had a unifying effect on the nation during instability. In 1992 , the Princess Royal and her husband Mark Phillips divorced; the Prince and Princess of Wales separated; a biography detailing
14541-489: The royal family support the monarch in "state and national duties", while also carrying out charity work of their own. If the sovereign is indisposed, two counsellors of state are required to fulfil his/her role, with those eligible being restricted to the sovereign's spouse, and the first four people in the line of succession over the age of 21. In 2022 the then Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal were added to
14672-665: The royal family were "very much not a racist family". In June 2021, documents revealed that "coloured immigrants or foreigners" were banned by Elizabeth II's chief financial manager at the time from working for the family as clerks in the 1960s, prompting black studies professor Kehinde Andrews to state that "the royal family has a terrible record on race". In response, the palace stated that it complied "in principle and in practice" with anti-discrimination legislation, and that second-hand claims of "conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer conclusions about modern-day events or operations." In March 2022 and during
14803-594: The royal family, who represent the monarch, draw their income from public funds known as the sovereign grant , which is an annual payment of the British government to the monarch. It comes from the revenues of the Crown Estate , which are commercial properties owned by the Crown . Members of the royal family who receive money from the sovereign grant must be accountable to the public for it and are not allowed to make money from their name. The monarch also receives
14934-777: The same year. Describing itself as the friend of "The Honest Financier, the Bona Fide Investor, the Respectable Broker, the Genuine Director, and the Legitimate Speculator", it was a four-page journal. The readership was the financial community of the City of London , its only rival being the more daring and slightly older (founded in 1884) Financial News . On 2 January 1893 the FT began printing on light pink paper to distinguish it from
15065-551: The second was (later Sir) William Rees-Mogg who went on, via The Sunday Times , to edit The Times in 1967 following its acquisition by Roy Thomson. Other FT Oxbridge recruits included the future Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson . The FT ' s distinctive recruitment policy for Fleet Street journalists was never popular with the National Union of Journalists and ceased in 1966 following
15196-425: The similarly named Financial News : at the time, it was also cheaper to print on unbleached paper (several other more general newspapers, such as The Sporting Times , had the same policy), but nowadays it is more expensive as the paper has to be dyed specially. The Berry brothers, Lord Camrose and Gomer Berry (later Lord Kemsley), purchased the Financial Times in 1919. In 1945, Brendan Bracken purchased
15327-438: The styles "Princess Louise of Edinburgh" and "Prince James of Edinburgh", respectively, are not called prince and princess, as their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, wanted them to have more modest titles. The King reportedly wants to reduce the number of titled members of the royal family. By tradition, wives of male members of the royal family share their husbands' title and style. Princesses by marriage do not have
15458-560: The then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair , and was given a job as an education minister and a seat in the House of Lords after the 2005 election. Ed Balls became chief economic adviser to the Treasury, working closely with Gordon Brown , the chancellor of the exchequer (or finance minister), before being elected a Member of Parliament in 2005, and became Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in July 2007. Bernard Gray ,
15589-501: The then Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge have condemned slavery in their speeches, and the Prince has described acknowledging the wrongs of the past as a necessity for the Commonwealth countries to realise their potential. Historically, the royal family and the media have benefited from each other; the family used the press to communicate with the public, while the media used the family to attract readers and viewers. With
15720-451: The title prefixed to their own name but to their husband's; for example, the wife of Prince Michael of Kent is Princess Michael of Kent. Sons of monarchs are customarily given dukedoms upon marriage, and these peerage titles pass to their eldest sons. Male-line descendants of King George V , including women until they marry, bear the surname Windsor. The surname of the male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II, except for women who marry,
15851-648: The traditional Royal Maundy services on 5 April 2012 in York . There, Beatrice interacted with parishioners, received flowers from the public, and assisted the Queen as she passed out the Maundy money to the pensioners. In the lead up to the 2012 Summer Olympics , Beatrice welcomed the Olympic flame on the steps of Harewood House near Leeds . In 2013, Beatrice and her sister promoted Britain overseas in Germany. She visited
15982-470: The value of liberal democracy. The Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Post accused the FT of asking President Putin softball questions, and said the interviewers failed to hold Putin to account. In the 2010 general election , the FT was receptive to the Liberal Democrats ' positions on civil liberties and political reform, and praised the then Labour Party leader Gordon Brown for his response to
16113-708: The various organisations the Duchess supported. In April 2010, running to raise money for Children in Crisis , she became the first member of the royal family to complete the London Marathon . Beatrice is the patron of Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, which supports children with life-shortening conditions in West Yorkshire and North Manchester. At the April 2011 wedding of her cousin Prince William , Beatrice's unusual fascinator , designed by Philip Treacy , received much attention and derision from
16244-442: Was a member of the school choir. Beatrice celebrated her 18th birthday with a masked ball at Windsor Castle in July 2006. Nikolai von Bismarck took her official birthday portrait. In September 2008, Beatrice started a three-year course studying for a BA in history and history of ideas at Goldsmiths, University of London . She graduated in 2011 with a 2:1 degree . During the summer of 2008, Beatrice obtained work experience as
16375-568: Was and still is distributed with the paper every Monday. FTfm is the world's largest-circulation fund management title. Since 2005 the FT has sponsored the annual Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award . On 23 April 2007, the FT unveiled a "refreshed" version of the newspaper and introduced a new slogan, "We Live in Financial Times". In 2007 the FT pioneered a metered paywall , which let visitors to its website read
16506-642: Was born in September 2021. In October 2024, Buckingham palace announced that Princess Beatrice is expecting her second child in early 2025. Princess Beatrice was born at 8:18 pm on 8 August 1988 at the Portland Hospital in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York , and fifth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . She was baptised in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace on 20 December 1988, her godparents being Viscount Linley (her father's cousin, now
16637-494: Was firmly opposed to the Iraq War . Due to its advocacy of free markets and free trade, it is often identified as centrist to centre-right in its political positions. The modern FT is a product of a merger of two smaller newspapers in 1945 ; since that time, the paper had backed the Conservatives fairly consistently, but Labour's tacking to the centre, combined with the Conservatives' embracement of Euroscepticism, led
16768-561: Was hosted by Prince Carl Philip in Sweden. In February 2023, Beatrice was named patron of the British Skin Foundation . As a male-line grandchild of a sovereign, Beatrice was known as "Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York" at birth, the territorial designation coming from her father's title, Duke of York . Since her marriage, she has been styled "Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi" in
16899-423: Was not publicly announced in advance. Her father's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein , an American financier and convicted sex offender who was charged with sex trafficking of minors who died in prison, greatly impacted her wedding plans. After Prince Andrew's subsequent BBC interview , he was retired from royal duties and her wedding arrangements were scaled down; he walked her down the aisle, but he did not appear in
17030-502: Was once 50% owned by FT , reaches 32%. FT 's The Banker also proved vital reading, reaching 24%. In addition, in 2010 the FT was regarded as the most credible publication in reporting financial and economic issues among the Worldwide Professional Investment Community audience. The Economist was rated the third-most-credible title by most influential professional investors, while
17161-609: Was the editor of The Times and is now the chief executive of News Corporation . Will Lewis , a former New York correspondent and News Editor for the FT , edited the Daily Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal . Dominic Lawson went on to become editor of the Sunday Telegraph until he was dismissed in 2005. Andrew Adonis , a former education correspondent, became an adviser on education to
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