This couple must really like cake. Prince Philippos, the 35-year-old son of King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, celebrated his marriage to Nina Flohr, the 34-year-old Swiss-born VistaJet heiress, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens on Saturday. It was the third such recognition of the young couple’s love, following a small, COVID-restricted ceremony in St. Moritz in December and an event at Stibbington House thrown by British socialite, Vogue contributor, and Instagram Baroness Alice Naylor-Leyland in late May.
Prince Philippos, born in London, has many notable godparents. In addition to the late Princess Diana (here’s a photo of her at his christening in London’s St. Sophia Cathedral), he can boast connections to King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Princess Beneditke of Denmark, the current Right Honourable Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Penelope Knatchbull, and Bulgarian royal, Kyril, Prince of Preslav, Duke in Saxony. (You’ve gotta wonder what their group texts are like!)
Flohr, whose title is now Princess Nina of Greece and Denmark, wore “a white silk moire taffeta gown, modified from Chanel’s 2021 Autumn Winter Couture Collection,” according to the royal fan website RoyalHats.net. Furthermore, they report that she “topped her gown with a lengthy silk tulle veil and the antique corsage pearl and diamond floral tiara, a diadem of Scandinavian royal origin that Queen Anne-Marie inherited weeks before her marriage to King Constantine.”
The Greek royal family holds no political power in Greece, and King Constantine lived in exile for decades. The Danish royal family holds no political power either, but the constitution requires the Danish Queen (Prince Philippos’s aunt) to perform periodic functions. Philippos’s mother, Queen Anne-Marie, was born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark.
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Flohr’s father, Thomas Flohr, founded the luxury private airline company VistaJet in 2004. Her mother, Katharina Konečný, is a founding editor at Russian Vogue and a creative director at Fabergé. The new bride previously worked for her father (aiding in the design of cabin crew uniforms) and then opened a luxury spa/ecological sanctuary on Benguerra Island off the coast of Mozambique. (The least expensive bungalows go for €5,000, about $5,800 per night, according to the website.)
Athens’s Metropolitan Cathedral is home to the reliquaries of Saint Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Saint Philothei, the Righteous Martyr of Athens.
More photos of Philippos and Flohr’s third round of nuptials can be found here.
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