Cascade of brown curls, large smile and glitter top… The Denmark royal house unveiled on its Instagram account, this Friday, January 24, an unprecedented cliché of the Countess Athena de Monpezat. The daughter of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie indeed celebrates her 13e birthday. For the occasion, the teenager posed in front of a library, faced with the objective of her mother. There is, in the background, a frame containing a portrait of Princess Marie and a baby.
Washington festivities
“His Excellency the Countess Athena celebrates her 13th birthday today, wrote the Palais in legend of publication. On the occasion of her birthday, her Royal Highness Princess Marie herself photographed her.” The granddaughter of Queen Margrethe II will blow out her candles in Washington, where she has lived for a year and a half alongside her brother, Count Henrik, and her parents. Prince Joachim works on the spot as a defense attachment to Denmark.
“Shaping your own life”
Now ninth in the order of succession to the Danish throne, the Countess Athena was born Princess of Denmark. But in January 2023, Margrethe II announced that the teenager, her brother Henrik, as well as their half-brothers Nikolai and Felix, were going to be fallen from their title of nobility. “As of January 1, 2023, the descendants of his Royal Highness Prince Joachim will only be able to use their Count Titles and Countess of Mypezat, their previous titles of Prince and Princess of Denmark becoming deciduous”, explained the court in a press release . The sovereign said that she intended to offer normal existence to her grandchildren, and let them “shape their own life”.
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