Princess Beatrice puts on united front with husband Edo during lunch out amid fears her ‘marriage is in trouble’ in wake of Epstein scandal

Princess Beatrice put on a united front with her husband during a lunch out at a sushi bar in Notting Hill amid fears her ‘marriage is in trouble’ in the wake of the Epstein scandal.

The 37-year-old royal was all smiles as she left the Eel Sushi Bar with property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.

The married couple spent two hours inside the trendy pine-panelled Japanese restaurant on Friday for a large birthday party before being picked up in an electric Porsche.

It comes after friends told The Mail on Sunday that things between Beatrice and Edo had ‘not been great for a while’ since the ever-more troubling details of her parents’ dealings with Jeffrey Epstein had come to light.

Beatrice’s father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, yesterday broke cover for the first time since his arrest last month.

Andrew, 66, cut a solitary figure on Saturday as he roamed the countryside for 90 minutes on a solo dog walk near Wood Farm, where he is currently staying in Norfolk.

It is the first picture of the disgraced former prince since he was seen four weeks ago, slumped in the rear of a Range Rover in a futile attempt to avoid photographers as he was driven from a Norfolk police station.

The former Duke of York was released under investigation after being held for 11 hours in police custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

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Princess Beatrice put on a united front with her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi during a lunch out at a sushi bar in Notting Hill

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The 37-year-old royal was all smiles as she was picked up in an electric Porsche

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The married couple spent two hours inside the trendy pine-panelled Japanese restaurant Eel Sushi Bar for a birthday party

Earlier this week, hundreds of removal boxes stamped ‘HRH’ were delivered to his new abode, in a sign that Andrew is still desperately clinging to his royal styling.

King Charles stripped his brother of his royal title last November in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The boxes were clearly marked ‘HRH office’, ‘HRH sitting room’ and even ‘HRH meeting room’, as they arrived at the five-bedroom house, suggesting Andrew continues to use the honorific behind closed door.

The haul, transported by royal-approved removals firm Gander & White on Friday, included clothes, antiques and books – some marked fragile – as the shamed royal completes his forced relocation.

Meanwhile, the MoS revealed today Beatrice’s mother Sarah Ferguson was involved in talks to clone the late Queen’s beloved corgis for an extraordinary reality TV show.

Described by Hollywood producers as a ‘bold and controversial business venture’, the tasteless idea would have involved the former Duchess of York trying to make money by selling the genetically replicated corgis ‘to other dog lovers around the world’.

Pet cloning is highly contentious, with experts warning it can produce horrible abnormalities.

But it can be lucrative, with cloned dogs typically selling for up to £75,000 in the US, where the process is legal.

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It comes as Beatrice’s father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor broke cover for the first time since his arrest as he took a solo dog walk around Sandringham

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It is the first picture of Andrew since he was seen slumped in the rear of a Range Rover four weeks ago in a futile attempt to avoid photographers as he was driven from a Norfolk police station

In May 2023, Fergie was seeking ways to leverage what little remained of her royal status, when the idea of monetising the corgis, Muick and Sandy, was floated. She was entrusted with their care following the Queen’s death eight months earlier.

After speaking to a number of TV companies in the US she met executives from Halcyon Studios in Los Angeles for a series of lunches and dinners.

‘She was pushing to get back into TV and make some money,’ said a source. ‘She came up with the idea of featuring the Queen’s corgis in a show. And that included the idea of breeding them. Bizarre as it sounds, the idea of cloning them was discussed.’

While it is not legal in the UK for a company to produce replica animals, other than in research settings, it is legal to send a skin sample from an animal to the US for cloning.

Ms Ferguson’s whereabouts are unknown. She went into hiding after her own close friendship with the convicted paedophile was exposed, and is now under pressure to give evidence in the US.

On Saturday night a spokesman for Ms Ferguson said: ‘Sarah Ferguson never progressed any discussions with Halcyon Studios, which were engineered by others, and withdrew from them of her own accord.

‘She listens to TV proposals all the time but that doesn’t mean she is going to go through with them. If she had briefly seemed enthusiastic, that is just who Sarah is. Sarah never had any intention of monetising the corgis.

‘She had been looking at doing a TV show about dogs for many years, long before she had the corgis and long before she was introduced to Halcyon Studios.

‘She owns other types of dogs also. Any resulting show would never have been about the corgis alone.’