The now ex-couple had met seven years earlier, during a snow holiday in Gstaad, Switzerland, in which the prince’s sister-in-law, Marie-Chantal Miller, wife of Paul of Greeceintroduced Nicolás to the young sociologist with a degree in sociology from Georgetown University, daughter of Ladislav Vladimir Blatnika Jewish businessman of Hungarian origin who made his fortune thanks to a well-known shoe factory, and Marie Blanche Bierlein, a descendant of William II of Hesse-Kassel, who Tatiana says is “my best friend.” The suicide of her father, when Tatiana was barely eight years old, would inspire her to work for her mental health.
During the first years of their marriage, the third child of the King Constantine of Greece and Queen Ana María, and Tatiana Blatnik, born in Caracas but raised in Switzerland, lived in the London neighborhood of Chelsea. Nicolás worked in the Greek royal office and Tatiana served as the designer’s public relations advisor. Diane von Furstenberg. But it didn’t take them long to organize a historic move to Athens. In 2013 they settled in the Greek capital, becoming the first members of the country’s royal family to have settled in Greece since 1974, when the monarchy was abolished and the family went into exile. In Greece they have led a very discreet life. They have not been a couple who attend many public events, they have preferred to walk through nature or share time at home with their friends.
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Prince Nicholas combines his work as a member of the board of Knightsbridge Schools International, responsible for developing international schools around the world, and Axion Hellas, a Greek non-profit volunteer organization that supports local communities in remote parts of the country, with his passion for photography, an art that he discovered thanks to King Juan Carlos. “During the summers, when we went on vacation to Spain, I watched my uncle King Juan Carlos taking photos of people without scenery, mainly with a long lens. I was 12 years old. When my mother bought me an Olympus camera I started taking photos mainly of my friends and family. In the years that followed, I would collect lenses and photography accessories, until one day, all my equipment got soaked and destroyed during a trip to Bangkok. Later, he borrowed cameras, until my wife gave me a digital camera,” the prince explained on the Sotheby’s website. He has exhibited his work in London, New York and, of course, Greece. Tatiana, advocate for healthy living and healthy eating — in 2021 she released the book A taste of Greeceto promote Greek cuisine—, began to develop solidarity projects with the Demos Foundation, which helped Greeks hit by the economic crisis, and created a solidarity project related to mindfulness and mental health with which, if their plans do not change , they intend to continue.