Alex Mapelli-Mozzi
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Count Alessandro Mapelli-Mozzi (born 7 May 1951) is a retired British-Italian alpine skier.[1] He competed for Great Britain in three events at the 1972 Winter Olympics.[2] He holds both British and Italian citizenship.[3] He is the father-in-law of Princess Beatrice of York.[4] In 2012, he was reported as residing in La Garde-Freinet, Var department, Côte d'Azur, France.[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi |
| Nationality | Italian and British |
| Born | 7 May 1951 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Spouse(s) | Nicola Diana Burrows (m. 1978), Ebba Margaretha Antonie von Eckermann, Fiona Wilson (m. 1994) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Alpine skiing |
Ancestry
Mapelli-Mozzi is born as a member of an ancient Italian noble family, whose family seat is Villa Mapelli Mozzi. He is the only son of Count Gian Paolo Mapelli Mozzi (1922-1980) and his Maltese wife, Gigliola Stoppani (1926-2003).[5][6] As Italian nobility was abolished in 1946, when the Italian Republic was proclaimed, his title of Count is not officially recognised in neither Italy[7] nor the UK;[8] he uses the title as a courtesy.[1][9] That title of Count in the Kingdom of Italy was awarded to his family in 1913 by King Victor Emmanuel III and to all legitimate male-line descendants bearing the surname of the noble family of Mozzi, which was previously incorporated to the noble family of Mapelli, also part of an ancient Italian nobility. In 1168, Mapelli-Mozzi's ancestor, Alberto di Mapello, Counsul and delegate of the city of Bergamo, son of Oberto di Mapello, fought to defend Lombardy against Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor.[10][11]
Early life and career
Mapelli-Mozzi grew up in Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro, the sithome of his family seat, Villa Mapelli Mozzi, which has held works of art.[12][13][14]
His family also owns another Villa Mapelli Mozzi, located in Casatenovo, between Bergamo and Lake Como, whose origins are those of an ancient monastery built in the 15th century. Villa Mapelli Mozzi was registered in the Italian Register of Historic Houses of Excellence in 2018. It is surrounded by an 18,000 square meter park.[15][16]
Mapelli-Mozzi was a boarder at Downside School, Somerset, England, from May 1965 to July 1969.[17] He has worked internationally as an art dealer and curator.[12][18]
Personal life
Mapelli-Mozzi married firstly Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows (b. 1956) from Oxfordshire on 8 March 1978, paternal granddaughter of businessman and Liberal party politician Sir Robert Abraham Burrows and his wife, Lady Burrows (née Eleanor Doris Bainbridge), great-granddaughter of Bainbridge's founder Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge.[19][20][21][22][14][23] They have two children including Edoardo Alessandro (born 1983), husband of Princess Beatrice of York.[24] Mapelli-Mozzi remarried after his divorce from Burrows, this time to Ebba Margaretha Antonie von Eckermann, member of the Swedish nobility of German descent, who was previously married to Jan Gustaf Theodor Stensson Ankarcrona (b. 1940).[25][26] He married Fiona Wilson in 1994.[27]
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