The coronavirus outbreak has cast doubt over the guest list for Princess Beatrice's wedding, the Telegraph has learned.
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, who is marrying the Queen's granddaughter in London on May 29, hails from the Lombardy region of northern Italy which was the first to quarantine 16 million people. On Monday, the whole country was placed in confinement after a surge of almost 2000 cases in 24 hours.
Although born and raised in England, Mapelli Mozzi, 37, who holds dual British and Italian citizenship, still has ties to the Bergamo region where his family's ancestral seat is the Villa Mapelli Mozzi. With travel bans looming, there are also fears about guests flying in from overseas.
A royal insider said: "The coronavirus has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works. Although there's no suggestion that Italy will remain in lockdown until the end of May, obviously the whole thing does cast doubt over the guest list."
The insider suggested it might also affect who Mapelli Mozzi can invite to his stag do but a spokesman for the couple insisted he only had "distant relatives" in Italy.