Beatrice and Edo are in IMO one of the best couples of the BRF, why on earth would he want to marry her for status? Edo and Beatrice had known each other for years and her parents were friends with his family for years and Edo is a self-made businessman in real estate. As people will say today, "Haters gonna hate", but more importantly they are a happy couple celebrating two ore three years of marriage.
I do really like them as a couple and I think Edo has proven himself a LOT in the last couple of years but there are reasons why some (even here) were wary of him.
1) He came on the scene as a boyfriend just as Eugenie was getting married, leading people to worry that she was potentially making poor decisions in her "younger sister got married, last unmarried adult cousin" panic. Despite knowing each other for years the timing seemed significant.
2) They moved in together very quickly.
3) There originally
appeared to be overlap between Beatrice and Dara. Dara's parents gave an interview where they said that Edo and Dara were still engaged when he started seeing Bea. Leading people to think that he left a self made woman he had a child with once the opportunity to date a princess come up. This has since been denied by Dara, who it seems may not have told her parents about the break up. Although there does not appear to have been much of a gap between the two. But that's their business.
4) Beatrice has not had the best luck with boyfriends and a lot of people's perceptions were coloured by her relationship with Dave Clark which lasted for 10 years and when they broke up he was married and expecting a baby with someone else within the year. This wasn't helped by her mother predicting marriage between her and Dave in interviews over the years, leading many to assume Bea wanted it and Dave didn't and thus lots of "desperate Beatrice" stories.
5) In some early photos it seemed as though he had "camera hungry eyes" that sought out paps. In reality he had never gone through this before and was probably startled to have strangers shouting his name when out for the evening.
6) It probably didn't help that the papers dubbed him "the Italian tycoon" like a bad romance novel stereotype.
7) Beatrice and Eugenie suffered for years under the "ugly step sister" caricatures not just in the UK but worldwide based on some occasionally unfortunate fashion choices (that pretzel hat haunted her) and always appearing together and their parents various scandals despite they themselves apparently just trying to live their lives. Hence "why did he want to be with *her* when as a rich, handsome guy with great connections he could be with anyone?" Because people who saw her picture about her once a year or so assumed she was Fergie 2.0 with a ridiculous hat.
I'm
not saying that was fair or based in reality or that I agree with it but those were some of the points floating around when (not just DM commenters) thought he was just with her for reasons other than herself.
Edo has however proved himself extremely well over the last couple of years when so many predicted he would use COVID as an excuse to flee during the worst of the Andrew scandal but he didn't, clearly. Obviously he's not a working royal but he's done well whenever he's had to accompany Bea to anything and not put a foot wrong. He's had no scandals and it appears he gets on with a lot of the family and that Wolfie has been welcomed as well, which is lovely to see.