Princess Beatrice Accidently Cuts Ed Sheeran

A pretend “knighting ceremony,’ has gone wrong, as Princess Beatrice accidently cut the pop star Ed Sheeran on the face while attempting to “knight” James Blunt. Now people on social media are scorning the Princess for being so careless with a sword.

The party where the alleged “face-filleting” happened was at the Royal Lodge located in Windsor, England. The trouble all began when Blunt started joking around that he would like to be “Sir James”. That's when Beatrice, 28, grabbed a ceremonial sword and playfully swung it around to “pretend-knight” Blunt. However, on the backswing, it caught Sheeran right in the face slicing his cheek.

The incident could’ve been disastrous as the blade was only a couple inches from his right eye. However, Ed played the whole accident down and was the perfect gentleman calming Beatrice. Beatrice is the oldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah the Duchess of York and officially goes by the name Princess Beatrice of York.

Many people on social media, especially Twitter, started making jokes about the whole situation. From missing the opportunity to chop Sheeran and Blunt’s heads off to how it symbolized the monarchy, even pointing out the fact that there is a “Princess Beatrice”.

Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York was named after the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. Her middle names were taken from her grandmother the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary or her grandmother’s middle name, respectively.

The feminine name Beatrice is the Italian form of Beatrix, that is probably taken from Viatrix. Viatrix is the feminine version of the Late Latin name Viato that means “traveler or voyager”.