Princess Diana’s godson on track to win the world record for Most Royal Weddings
Prince Phillippos, son of King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece and godson of Princess Diana, just enjoyed his third wedding ceremony to wife Nina Flohr, because when you’re (ex-)royalty, such excesses just make sense.
35-year-old ex-royal Phillippos celebrated his relationship to 34-year-old VistaJet heiress Nina at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens over the weekend, marking the third such celebration after a small, COVID-restricted ceremony in St. Moritz in December and an event at Stibbington House in Cambridgeshire in May, thrown by socialite Alice Naylor-Leyland.
The December ceremony was only attended by the couple’s fathers, whereas the most recent ceremony, a Greek Orthodox one, saw many members of the couple’s extended families in attendance.
Phillippos, whose title ‘Prince of Greece’ with the style Royal Highness is not legally recognised by the Greek government following the deposition of his father in 1973, has many royal godparents in addition to the late Princess Diana. They include 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. Evidently this is not a family that believes that less is more.
Flohr wore a “white silk more taffeta gown, modified from Chanel’s 2021 A/W Couture Collection”, according to the royal fan website RoyalHats.net. They also reported 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.”
Phillippos is the youngest son of King Constantine II, the last monarch of Greece, and Queen Anne-Marie, originally of Denmark. The family holds no political power in Greece thanks to the country abolishing the monarchy in 1973, and they lived in exile for decades. The Danish royal family also holds no political power, but the constitution requires the Queen, Phillippos’ aunt Margarethe II, to perform periodic functions.
The bride’s father, Thomas Flohr, founded the luxury private airline company VistaJet in 2004. Her mother, Katharina Konečný, is a founding editor of Russian Vogue and a creative director at Fabergé.
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