Princess Beatrice's baby Athena has featured in the first photo taken of the royal since Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi's first announced her birth.
The Princess of York, 36, gave birth to her second daughter several weeks premature at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on January 22.
The photo appears to have been taken at the same time as the original birth announcement shared by Athena's father, Edoardo Mapelli-Mozzi.
The sweet image shows the newborn swaddled in a pink blanket, cuddling with a toy bunny.
Princess Beatrice's baby Athena has featured in the first photo taken of the royal since Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi's first announced her birth
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The photograph was captured as part of a special baby shower collection Princess Beatrice created with her close friend Alice Naylor-Leyland.
The collaboration supports Borne, a medical research charity dedicated to ending premature birth.
This cause is particularly meaningful to Beatrice, as Athena was born several weeks premature.
The collection celebrates both motherhood and friendship while raising awareness for an issue close to the royal's heart.
The sweet image shows the newborn swaddled in a pink blanket, cuddling with a toy bunny
Alice Naylor-Leyland shared the images on social media, writing: "It has been both a pleasure & a great honour working with my dear friend Princess Beatrice on our new Baby Shower Collection in aid of @bornecharity."
She added: "I'm so proud of the awareness @beayork has brought to Premature Birth & I'm delighted we were able to create this together celebrating both Motherhood & Friendship."
The new photo of baby Athena emerged just hours after Beatrice's opened up on the preterm birth in a new personal essay for British Vogue, explaining how baby Athena was welcomed by the family a few weeks before her due date.
She said: "Nothing quite prepares you for the moment when you realise your baby is going to arrive early."
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Beatrice's opened up on the preterm birth in a new personal essay for British Vogue
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Beatrice added: "There's so little control. Will she arrive healthy? Will there be complications? How will you juggle the rest of family life while trying to keep a tiny human safe and well?"
"You know that when your baby arrives the doctors and midwives are going to be there, doing everything they can to ensure she makes it through those challenging first few days.
"But you have no idea how these things will play out or what happens next. The uncertainty leaves you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown."
Beatrice and her husband also share a daughter called Sienna, while Edoardo also has a son, Christopher Woolf, from his previous relationship with American architect, Dara Huang.
