Princess Beatrice made her first official public appearance in the wake of her father, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor , being officially stripped of his royal titles . The former Prince's eldest daughter, 37, toured the Borne research laboratories on Monday afternoon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she gave birth to her youngest child Athena several weeks prematurely in January.

Beatrice described the work of Borne, which funds research into how to prevent premature births and why babies are born too soon, as "incredibly close and personal to me following the early arrival of my second daughter". Athena was born on 22 January, weighing 4lb 5oz, with Beatrice later writing in a piece for British Vogue that she was "so tiny it took more than a few weeks for the tears of rel

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