Royal Profile: Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess of Denmark

Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess of Denmark was born as Marie-Chantal Claire Miller on 17 September 1968 as first daughter of Ecuadorian born María Clara "Chantal" (née Pesantes Becerra) and Robert Warren Miller{Source}.
She has two sisters{Source}:
  1. Pia-Christina Getty (1966)
    1. Christopher Getty (m. 1992-2005, div)
      1. Isabelle Getty(1993)
      2. Robert Maximilian Getty (1996)
      3. Conrad Getty (1998)
      4. Maximus Getty (2002)
  2. Alexandra-Natasha von Furstenberg Miller (1972)
    1. Alexandre Egon von Fürstenberg (m. 1995-2002, div)'
      1. Talita Natasha von Fürstenberg (1999)
      2. Tassillo Egon Maximilian von Fürstenberg (2001)
    1. Dax Miller (m. 2015)
She grew up as an American citizen, but spent much of her younger years globe trotting{Source}.
The future Crown Princess of Greece was born in England, and spent her early childhood years in Hong Kong, Switzerland and France{Source}. She graduated from high school and attended University in the US (in NYC){Source}.

She began dating Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece in the early 1990s, he proposed during a skiing holiday in 1993{Source}. They wed in 1994. Together, they have four sons and a daughter {Source}:
She shares a birthday with her fourth child, Prince Odysseas-Kimon.

Marie-Chantal designs her own range of luxury children's clothing and accessories for the self-titled company she founded in 2000{Source}. She has also written and illustrated The Frog Prince, the first in a planned series of fairy-tales{Source}.
She serves on several committees and boards, including:
School of American Ballet
Animal Medical Centre.
Venetian Heritage  (Co-Founder)
World in Harmony (Co-chair){Source}.

She speaks English, French and Italian. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal took some Greek lessons prior to her wedding, but did not pursue it further.
She retained her American citizenship until 2011. She has Ecuadorian, English, Canadian, French, and Scottish ancestry. She and her husband own homes in NYC, California, The Bahamas, and London.

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