Royal Profile: 33 Facts about Crown Princess Marie-Chantal Claire of Greece, Princess of Denmark

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  1. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess of Denmark was born as Marie-Chantal Claire Miller on 17 September 1968
  2. She  is the first daughter of Ecuadorian born María Clara "Chantal" (née Pesantes Becerra) and Robert Warren Miller{Source}.
  3. She has two sisters{Source}:
    1. Pia-Christina Getty (1966)
    2. Alexandra-Natasha von Furstenberg Miller (1972)
  4. She has two former brothers-in-law:
    1. Christopher Getty (m. 1992-2005, Pia)
    2. Alexandre Egon von Fürstenberg (m. 1995-2002, Alexandra)
  5. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal has one current brother-in-law:
    1. Dax Miller (Alexandra, 2015)
  6. Through her sisters, she has two nieces:
    1. Isabelle Getty(1993)
    2. Talita Natasha von Fürstenberg (1999)
  7. Through her sisters, she has four nephews:
    1. Robert Maximilian Getty (1996)
    2. Conrad Getty (1998)
    3. Tassillo Egon Maximilian von Fürstenberg (2001)
    4. Maximus Getty (2002)
  8. She grew up as an American citizen, but spent much of her younger years globe trotting{Source}.
  9. The future Crown Princess of Greece was born in England, and spent her early childhood years in Hong Kong, Switzerland and France{Source}.
  10. She graduated from high school and attended University in the US (in NYC){Source}.
  11. She began dating Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece in the early 1990s, he proposed during a skiing holiday in 1993{Source}.
  12. They wed in 1994.
  13. Their first child, and only daughter, was born in July 1996{Source}:
    1. Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece & Denmark (1996)
  14. Their next four children were all boys:
    1. Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece & Denmark  (1998)
    2. Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece & Denmark (2000)
    3. Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece & Denmark (2004)
    4. Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece & Denmark (2008)
  15. She shares a birthday with her fourth child, Prince Odysseas-Kimon.
  16. Marie-Chantal designs her own range of luxury children's clothing and accessories for the self-titled company she founded in 2000{Source}.
  17. She has also written and illustrated The Frog Prince, the first in a planned series of fairy-tales{Source}.
  18. Marie-Chantal serves on the board of the School of American Ballet
  19. She is also on the board of the Animal Medical Centre.
  20. She is also a co-founder of Venetian Heritage
  21. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal is the co-chair of World in Harmony{Source}.
  22. She is the daughter-in-law of Queen Anne-Marie of Greece & King Constantine II of Greece.
  23. Through her husband, her siblings-in-law consist of:
    1. Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (1965)
      1. Carlos Morales Quintana (m. 1999)
    2. Prince Nikolaos of Greece & Denmark (1969)
      1. Princess Tatiana of Greece & Denmark (m. 2010)
    3. Princess Theodora of Greece & Denmark (1983)
    4. Prince Philippos of Greece & Denmark (1986)
  24. On her husband's side, she has the following nieces:
    1. Arrietta Morales y de Grecia (2002)
    2. Ana María Morales y de Grecia (2003)
    3. Amelia Morales y de Grecia (2007)
  25. Her nephews from her husband's side are:
    1. Carlos Morales y de Grecia (2005)
  26. Through her mother-in-law, she is the niece-in-law of:
    1. Queen Margarethe II of Demark (1940
      1. Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
    2. Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1944)
  27. Through her husband, her cousins-in-law and their spouses are:
    1. Crown Prince Fredrik of Denmark (1968)
      1. Crown Princess Mary (1972, m. 2004)
    2. Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1969)
      1. Miss Carina Axelsson (partners since 2008)
    3. Prince Joachim of Denmark (1969)
      1. Alexandra, Countess of Fredriksburg (m. 1995-2005)
      2. Princess Marie (m. 2008)
    4. Alexandra, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth(1970)
      1. Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (1967)
    5. Nathalie, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1975)
      1. Alexander Johannasman (m. 2010)
  28. She speaks English, French and Italian.
  29. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal took some Greek lessons prior to her wedding, but did not pursue it further.
  30. She retained her American citizenship until 2011.
  31. Her estimated net worth is about $2.5 million.
  32. She has Ecuadorian, English, Canadian, French, and Scottish ancestry.
  33. She and her husband own homes in NYC, California, The Bahamas, and London.

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