Prince Andrew was noticeably missing from his daughter Princess Beatrice's official royal wedding photos
- Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a secret ceremony at All Saints Chapel, Windsor Great Park on Friday morning.
- Two official photographs released by Buckingham Palace on Saturday show the couple outside the chapel after the ceremony, and another with Beatrice's grandparents, the Queen and Prince Philip.
- However, her parents Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, were not pictured, despite reports that they had both attended the royal wedding.
- Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi's official wedding photographs released by Buckingham Palace did not feature her father, Prince Andrew, or her mother, Sarah Ferguson.
The couple were married in a secret ceremony at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor on Friday, Buckingham Palace confirmed.
Buckingham Palace released two official photos on Saturday — the first showed Mozzi and Beatrice leaving the chapel together following the ceremony. The second was a socially distanced shot with her grandparents, the Queen and Prince Philip.
The Mail Online reports that her father, Prince Andrew, was pictured driving out of Windsor the day after the wedding, where he had reportedly walked Beatrice down the aisle.
Guests at the small, socially distanced royal wedding ceremony are also said to have included Princess Beatrice's mother Sarah Ferguson, her sister Princess Eugenie, and Mozzi's parents and siblings, per Hello Magazine.
Prince Andrew has kept a low profile in recent months, after resigning from official duties eight months ago following a car-crash interview about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family's work and the valuable work going on in the many organizations and charities that I am proud to support," the Duke of York said in an official statement in November.
"Therefore, I have asked Her Majesty if I may step back from public duties for the foreseeable future, and she has given her permission," he added.
This month, FBI agents arrested Epstein's longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of helping Epstein operate a sex trafficking ring.
Maxwell was a mutual friend of both Epstein and Andrew, though her friend Laura Goldman recently told the BBC she might 'never' speak about their friendship or Andrew's ties to the couple.
"She's always told me that she would never, ever, say anything about [Prince Andrew]. You know, I think she felt that he was her friend and she was never, ever, going to say anything about him," Goldman said.
"She really felt that in the '90s, when her father died, that Prince Andrew was there for her, in many ways."
US prosecutors have continued to investigate associates of Epstein and Maxwell, and have expressed an interest in speaking with the prince.
"We would welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk with us," Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told reporters last month. "Our doors remain open."
A source close to Prince Andrew's legal team said: "The Duke's team remains bewildered given that we have twice communicated with the DOJ in the last month, and to-date, we have had no response."
The Queen's granddaughter had originally planned to have her wedding ceremony at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace in May with a reception at Buckingham Palace. This was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"The private wedding ceremony of Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi took place at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 17 at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor," a Buckingham Palace spokesperson told Insider.
"The small ceremony was attended by The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, and close family. The wedding took place in accordance with all relevant Government Guidelines," they added.
Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to Insider's request for further comment.
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