Alessando 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 has been abolished in 1946, when the Italian Republic was proclaimed, his title of Count is not officially recognised in either Italy[7] or 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, Alessandro'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]
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. This Villa Mapelli Mozzi has been registered in the Italian Register of Historic Houses of Excellence since 2018. It is surrounded by an 18,000 square meter park.[15][16]
Alessandro married firstly Nicola "Nikki" Diana Burrows, MBE (b. 1956) from Oxfordshire on 8 March 1978, paternal granddaughter of businessman and Liberal party politician Sir Robert Abraham Burrows and his wife, LadyBurrows (née Eleanor Doris Bainbridge), great-granddaughter of Bainbridge's founder Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge.[19][20][21][22][14][23] They have two children: Natalia Alice Yeomans (born 1981) and Edoardo Alessandro (born 1983), husband of Princess Beatrice of York.[24] Alessandro remarried after his divorce from Nikki, 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 also Fiona Wilson in 1994. Both marriages produced no more children.[27]
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^ abc"Announcements 2012". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 March 2019. The engagement is announced between Tod, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Yeomans, of Winchester, Hampshire, and Natalia, stepdaughter of the late Mr Christopher Shale and daughter of Mrs Christopher Shale, of Over Worton, Oxfordshire, and Count Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi, of La Garde Freinet, France.
^Libro d'Oro della Nobilta Italiana, M-Z (22 Volume 26 ed.). Rome: Collegio araldico. 2000–2004. pp. 44–45. Retrieved 1 October 2019. [Translated from Italian to English] – The title of Conte [Co.] was created in 1913 in the Kingdom of Italy by King Victor Emmanuele III to all male descendants imposing the surname and noble family of Mozzi and is incorporated to the family of Mapelli ... *Mozzi (Mapelli-Mozzi) ... Co. Alessandro, n. 17 lug 1951 sp. 18 March 1978 Niky Durrows da cui: (a) Natalia, n. a Londra 28 ag. 1981; (b) Co. Edoardo, n. a Londra 19 November 1983
^ abArt de France, Issue 1. The University of California. 1961. Retrieved 29 September 2019 – via Google Books. Ces décorations d'Ancy ellesmêmes sont proches de « la Vénus et les Amours » (collection Mapelli Mozzi, Ponte san Pietro°).
^Turner, J. (2000). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art. Grove's Dictionaries. ISBN1884446043. Retrieved 1 October 2019 – via Google Books. C. Mapelli Mozzi: El traje indigena en Alexico, 2 vols (Mexico City, 1964, 2/1968) C. ... The first collectors of Mexican art were the conquistadors themselves, led by Hernan Cortes, an....
^ ab"Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi". Country Life. Vol. 163. TI Media. 1978. p. 507. of Mr David Burrows, of Pincents Farm, Theale, Berkshire, and of Mrs Susan Burrows, of 2 Walton Street, London, SW3, is to be married to Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi, only son of Count Gianpaulo Mapelli Mozzi, of Sottoriva, Ponte San Pietro....
^Ceresoli, L. (7 May 2019). "The dream villa in Ponte San Pietro". Bergamo Post. Retrieved 29 September 2019. The Villa is privately owned and is still partly inhabited". Sergio Limonta, guide of Promoisola, also confirmed: "It is the residence of private individuals who do not accept sightseeing. I [once] took some schoolchildren to visit it with the consent of the kind and aristocratic Mrs. Legler, one of the property, unfortunately now disappeared and therefore the visits for the herds have closed. Her husband was a Mapelli, the last descendants....
^Fontaine, N. (2019). Origins of the Mapelli Mozzi family: the noble ancestors and the title of Earl (Count) of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Royales Histories. Retrieved 29 September 2019. (N.B. French to English translation) By the Italian Royal Decree of March 13, 1913, the King of Italy offered the Mapelli family a hereditary title. The male descendants all have the title of "Conte" (storytelling, in French).....The letters patent of July 17, 1913 add the name Mozzi to the title.....Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is therefore count , like his father, as his grandfather ... and as his son, Count Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi . However, since the abolition of the monarchy in Italy (in 1946), titles of nobility no longer have legal value. As for the United Kingdom, he can not recognize these titles of nobility either....As we have seen, the Mapelli Mozzi family belongs to a very old Lombard family , which still owns the sumptuous Villa Mapelli Mozzi located in Casatenovo , between Bergamo and Lake Como. The Mozzi family also owns Villa Mapelli Mozzi in Ponte San Pietro, built in 1770 by Count Enrico Mozzi. Edoardo also descends from the family of Tarsis but also Baroli . The great-grandfather of Edoardo, Count Luigi Mapelli Mozzi , also Knight of the Crown of Italy married in 1919, Nobile Maria Mercredes Baroli , descendant of the noble family of Baroli......
^"South African Digest". South African Digest. Department of Information, South Africa. 1980. p. 4. Retrieved 29 September 2018 – via Google Books. Count Alex Mapelli Mozzi (left), the curator of the 143 drinking glasses (photographed) with Mr Jimmy Krugar President of the Senate - Denise Jordaan (1980). "The pageant of the past". To the Point News in Depth. Vol. 9, no. 36–52. African International Publishing Company. Retrieved 1 October 2019 – via Google Books. Count Alex Mapelli- Mozzi who is responsible for bringing the magnificent collection of antique glass drinking vessels, valued at millions of rands, to South Africa, would not disclose the insured value of the collection, as, with lifted eyebrows he said: "Lloyds of London would not.....
^"Sir Robert Abraham Burrows (1884-1964), Businessman". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 21 July 2020. Sir Robert Abraham Burrows is the father of Robert David Burrows whose daughter is Nicola Diana Burrows (b. 1956) who was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 2016.
