An idyllic beach, cheek bones that could cut glass and designer clothes, the Greek royal family have certainly pulled out all the stops with their very glamorous Christmas card for 2023.
Shared to Instagram by Crown Princess Marie -Chantal, the photo shows the matriarch with her husband Pavlos, the heir to the defunct throne, and their five children, all in black and white.
Model Olympia, 27, is joined by her brothers Constantine, 25, Achileas, 23, Odysseas, 19, and Aristidis, 16.
The family, all with catwalk good looks, are sit in front of a stunning vista, presumably in Greece.
The inside of the cared read ‘Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy new year’ in both Greek and English.
Crown Princess Marie -Chantal shared a video of the exiled Greek royal family. Marie and Pavlos were joined by model Olympia, 27, is joined by her brothers Constantine, 25, Achileas, 23, Odysseas, 19, and Aristidis, 16.
The inside of the cared read ‘Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy new year’ in both Greek and English
Olympia, who recently split with ‘Britain’s most eligible bachelor’ Peregrine Pearson, showed off her trim physique in a leopard print shift dress.
Meanwhile, Constantine, who is dating Poppy Delevingne, 37, wore a breezy open collar shirt and chain, matching his brothers.
The card, in black and white, was quickly compared to the Prince and Princess of Wales’ offering.
Earlier this month, Prince William and Kate Middleton released the family portrait with their three children in matching white shirts.
The couple pose with Prince George, 10, Prince Louis , five and Princess Charlotte , eight, who is sat in a chair at the front of the group.
The three men and boys are dressed in matching plain shirts – George opting for a Ralph Lauren Polo number – and dark trousers, while Kate and Charlotte have swapped the trousers for denim jeans.
While the many saw the picture of a happy family, some thought it was unfestive and mocked an apparent photoshop fail.
Eagled-eyed observer zoomed in on the left hand of Prince Louis, five, and noticed his middle finger appears to be missing.
Earlier this month, Prince William and Kate Middleton released the family portrait with their three children in matching white shirts
Eagled-eyed observer zoomed in on the left hand of Prince Louis , five, and noticed his middle finger appears to be missing
The King and Queen’s Christmas card is an altogether more formal affair, showing Charles and Camilla inside Buckingham Palace shortly after the coronation in May
Of course, he seems simply to be spreading his fingers wide. But then a closer look also led some to question what has happened to William’s left leg.
He appears to have adopted a wide stance but only his right leg is visible. Similarly, only one of Kate’s feet is in view behind the chair Princess Charlotte, eight, is perched on.
Pavlos’ father was King Constantine, a relation of Prince Philip, who was exiled from Greece following the abolition of the Greek monarchy in 1973.
Princess Olympia, who has 300,000 followers on her Instagram page, where she updates royal watchers with insights into her daily life, has often expressed her long-time love for the fashion industry.
At the age of just 11, Olympia attended her first couture show in Rome with her parents.
During her time at a boarding school in Switzerland, she studied art history, theatre, photography, and graphic design with hopes of pursuing a career in art or fashion.
She bagged an internship in Christian Dior’s couture department, at the age of 17, before going on to earn a Bachelor’s degree from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2019.
Her family was on hand to watch as she accepted her diploma in a ceremony at New York City’s Lincoln Center, where they beamed as she walked across the stage in a black cap and purple gown.
Having moved away from her former family home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Olympia now lives in Notting Hill with her sausage dog, Echo – who she adopted during the coronavirus lockdown.
Marie-Chantal married Pavlos in 1995. He will never take the throne because the Greek monarchy was deposed in 1973
Marie Chantal Miller poses extravagantly above with her sister Pia (in yellow) as they lounge in the pool of the Hotel Bel-Air, Cap Ferrat in July 1991
As of 2021, she is in a relationship with Peregrine Pearson, the son and heir of Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray, whose family has a reputed £224million fortune.
Perry’s father owns a significant chunk of the Pearson media empire as well as the 16,500-acre West Sussex estate which is home to Cowdray Park polo club, where Princes William and Harry have played.
The pair split earlier this year, and Perry has since been linked to Sophie Turner.
Olympia was previously the face of Louis Vuitton’s Capucine bag campaign, which was a full-circle moment for the royal who reportedly adored her grandmother’s Vuitton bag as a child.
Meanwhile, Olympia’s mother, Marie Chantal of Greece lived a modern-day fairytale, from growing up with billionaire father Robert Miller to falling ‘in love at first sight’ with Prince Pavlos, heir to the Greek crown.
She combines work as a clothes designer with a life as mother-of-five whose children are already forging their own successful paths.
She also has a huge online following, with nearly a quarter of a million fans on one social media channel alone.
Born in London on September 17, 1968, to parents Robert W Miller, 88, and his Ecuador-born wife Maria Clara Pesantas, 83, she was brought up in Hong Kong until the age of nine, where she then went to boarding school in Switzerland.
Marie Chantal, 55, is the middle of three sisters, Pia, 57, and Alexandra, 50, who are also best known for their well-connected marriages.
In the 1980s, she attended a bilingual school in Paris before transferring to the Masters School in New York for her senior year of high school.
Marie-Chantal has a long history of associating with the rich and famous; before she married into the royal family, the London-born blonde worked for Andy Warhol.
She began a degree in History of Art at New York University in 1993, and it was in the city that she met Prince Pavlos, 56, for the first time.
The couple met on a blind date set up by New York investment banker Alecko Papamarkou, a mutual friend who was convinced they would hit it off.
‘We clicked,’ the Princess told Vanity Fair in 2008. ‘It was love at first sight. I knew that he was the person I would marry.’
The pair became engaged in 1995 after a romantic proposal in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad, and their July wedding later that year was the largest gathering of royals in London since Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip in 1946.
Among the 1,250 guests who attended were the royal families of Britain, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Romania, Jordan and Bulgaria.
