We’ve discussed Princess Maria-Olympia before, in a dodgy context. In January of this year, British tabloids claimed that Prince Harry might be doing something with Princess Maria-Olympia, who is his distant cousin. I didn’t think there was much to that story, although it served as a primer for the Greek princess. It’s worth noting that Greece doesn’t have a royal family anymore – the Greek royals are “in exile,” mostly living in England and America, and they still use royal titles even though Greece is all “I don’t know her.” Princess Maria-Olympia is 20 years old, the daughter of “Crown Prince” Pavlos and Marie-Chantal Miller. And Maria-Olympia wants to be famous. She’s started doing more fashion stuff and she’s getting a higher profile overall, which includes a new little profile/interview with Vanity Fair. My question is this: does her quote about the Duchess of Cambridge read as shade?
When the moniker “princess” is affixed to your name, you tend to deal with a very specific issue. Comparisons to a certain Duchess of Cambridge and her much-revered style are par for the course. At least Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece, the 20-year-old daughter of Marie-Chantal Miller and the Crown Prince Pavlos, has her very diplomatic answer at the ready. “I admire Kate’s sense of style,” she told VF.com in an e-mail, “but I’m younger and much more experimental in my choices. I love what comes out of street style from Paris to Milan to NYC.”
She‘s a freshly minted twentysomething and current design student in New York, so while the two might be equally style conscious, the outcome is quite different. You’re more likely to find Olympia front row at Valentino, Dior, or Giambattista Valli, and her Instagram outfits feature all of the above plus Balmain and vintage Louis Vuitton, among others. “I always like to dress as if I would bump into someone special,” she said.
Michael Kors recently tapped the Grecian beauty, whose cousin is the granddaughter of Diane von Furstenberg, for its digital campaign called The Walk, and they went to Soho, her new home turf, to shoot the line. “SoHo is my favorite spot in New York so shooting there was so fun,” Olympia said. “We shot around my neighborhood, filming me in places I love like my favorite bakery with me interacting, walking around.
“I love the styled look of all of M.K’.s shoots. It’s how I like to dress, even if I’m out with a pair of jeans, I’ll style it with great accessories,” she added.
Though the royal has been in the city for almost a year, making the move from London where she grew up brought plenty of changes with it—some of them sartorial, some of them social. Of her evolving look, she said, “My style has definitely changed [since] moving to New York. Maybe social media has made me more aware of my style, so I’m constantly experimenting.”
“…But I’m younger and much more experimental in my choices.” Diplomatic or shade? Or just the truth, because everyone looks younger and more experimental compared to Kate? Kate either dresses like her mother or like a schoolgirl, and the effect is… not good. And I feel like the other royal women in the world know this too. You’ve got to think that Queen Rania and Princess Victoria of Sweden and even the I-don’t-know-her Greek princesses are all like, “Seriously, Kate is being held up as some kind of fashionista?” As for Maria-Olympia in particular… she seems just like every other late teen/early-20s “celebrity kid.”
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Bless her heart. Someday, Kate will get to live in a real palace with a real king as a husband. The “royals” of Greece will still be living in NYC.
Kate is absolutely no fashionista, as her dubious shoe choices attest. But she is part of a legitimate royal family. Not some posers who were deposed years ago.
“Someday, Kate will get to live in a real palace with a real king as a husband. The “royals” of Greece will still be living in NYC.” >>>> I guess in the world of royals that is an actual insult. However, they both grate on me for different reasons.
That’s assuming Kate makes it that long.
My money’s still on Will-not having a midlife crisis/hissyfit and divorcing her whilst chasing after Jecca (and failing).
He’s far more like his father than he would like to admit (minus Charles’ work ethic.)
There are no such thing as royals. There are no real kings. It’s all made up, make-believe nonsense. The spoils went to the victor; Henry VII picked his crown up from the bloody battle field. It’s all BS.
Amelia, Dittto, only I think it will be before he hits midlife !!!! I truly think he detests his own wife !!!
The sooner ‘royal’ anything disappears the better. It IS total rubbish. i don’t know what is sillier: very, very ordinary people parading around as if they are something special or the multitudes who keep bowing to them.
How grotesque to cling to a meaningless title even when the country you’re supposedly a princess to has clearly indicated they are having none of it.
+1
Much like FBSC Katie Walker running around calling herself Archduchess of Austria
Or Countess LuAnn
It’s not shade, but I find her quite annoying in general. I don’t see how they’re allowed to keep their titles when the royal family doesn’t even exist anymore and they mostly live elsewhere.
I really just want a rich/celebrity/royal spawn to want more than being famous. I want to see someone value education and become like a doctor or engineer. I’m over these girls wanting to be models. How refreshing would that be?
I think they get to keep them officially because they are part of the Danish royal line. And Denmark still has a constitutional monarchy. So the official princess title is because of Denmark, not Greece. I think the actual styling is “of Denmark and Greece”. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be.
Much as I loathe and detest the BRF, this one is just demonstrating stupidity here. When she can be arsed to do anything, Katie Bucket does actually have a public service role. So she is not comparable in the slightest.
They run around calling themselves “of Greece” not “of Denmark and Greece” or their only legal remaining title “of Denmark”.
Gotcha. I knew it was something like that. They can use titles cos Denmark, but when they use them, they pretend cos Greece.
They keep it because the title doesn’t actually belong to the country but the family that holds it. Royals continue to be royals no matter what their country of origin says (or what they say at the moment) because that status has nothing to do with the country of origin.
It’s like claiming a Welsh name is “English” because England conquered Wales in the 14th century.
Yes, but Pavlos will never be King of the Hellenes. I suppose his oldest son will become the next Crown Prince of Greece and his own children will be styled HRH Prince/ss of Greece and Denmark.
Pavlos is the last CP of Greece. His eldest son won’t inherit the title.
I don’t think this one is clever enough to be anyone of merit so it’s clinging to redundant titles, modelling or whatever she does. Just anther no substance rich bimbo.
As thirsty for headlines as her mama.
Yikes @ literally everything about her.
Yeah, I don’t think so. Why is she happening? Hey, Vanity Fair, WTF? The Greeks indeed do NOT know her or the family. They don’t hold titles anymore, that’s what happens when your country is all “Guys, you’re fired.” And please, someone tell me … she’s not a MODEL, is she? She’s cute ‘n all but no.
She will be a model. Her father is a Crown Prince to a deposed royal house, her mother is the daughter of a billionaire, she is cousins with the Windsors (Philip was a Prince of Greece and Denmark, too) and related to the von Furstenberg family. She’s also rich, tall, white and a bottle blonde. OF COURSE she will model.
Be that as it may…her face :/
I almost forgot about the von Furstenberg connection!
Are mouth breathers in this season?
Yes. I think it looks like Peter Rabbit’s granddaughters conquering social media.
Bless her heart..SoHo is her favorite place in the city. Spoken like a rich kid who most likely won’t get to know the city any better than that neighborhood and Greenwich Village.
Hahaha. I was coming to comment on this same thing — she must think she’s so “edgy.” And I bet she’s pretty familiar with the UES too since that’s where her mom grew up.
Was the Greek royal family dismissed due to the financial crisis or was this way before?
Way before. Early 70s actually.
Yes. They got chucked out in a military coup. Regime of the Colonels it was called. An eventual counter coup is what caused all the trouble between Turkey and Greece in Cyprus.
They can’t speak a lick of Greek but happily attend parties as “Greek royals”. Honestly, aside from the royal fandom, no one would be talking about them if it wasn’t for Ma Miller’s nouveau riche background. 90s Wisteria Sisters anyone?
Much more experimental in her choices? Not based on her instagram. Her summer shots are of her in short jean shorts and plain t-shirts, bikinis or basic black or white dresses. So adventurous.
My favorite is the picture of the Olsen twins with ‘claps for the basic bitch’ caption on it. I can’t tell if she is poking fun at herself or is completely oblivious.
correct me if I’m wrong but her father retains his title because hte monarchy was deposed after he was born. However I find it funny his children go about as HRHs and Princes/esses.
But Anne-Marie is a danish princess (sister to Denmark’s Queen) and apparently her children are princes and princesses of Denmark, too. However they should use HH not HRH.
IDK, if Greece deposed you then stop using their titles. They do not exist anymore. Just use “of Denmark”, if that makes you happy. It’s dubious to me how Pavlos’ children get titles so further down the line to Denmark’s throne.
IIRC, Fredrick IX of Denmark granted the title to his son(and the son’s descendants) who had been chosen as the new Greek king(George I?) because apparently he (rightfully) thought the new Greek monarchy wouldn’t survive.
So they will keep styling themselves as princes and princesses of Denmark?
Why are they HRH when Joachim’s children are only HH?
Yes they will, or until some future Danish monarch strips them of the title. I think the difference in HRH/HH is because the Letters Patent regarding spares’ titles came after the installation of the-then new Greek royals.
I am pretty sure Greece has passed laws to say that citizens can’t hold titles. Whereas, say, Germany passed a fudge of a law that means your title can be your surname, or somesuch, that kept all parties happy.
Also pretty sure the Greeks stripped this lot of citizenship for that reason. Wasn’t there some big court case when the Greeks were trying to get back property and taxes and they wouldn’t let him be called “King Constantine” when giving his name in court?
(Memory foggy so without googling, can’t be sure I’m right about any of this!)
@COSsquared – I don’t see Margrethe stripping the titles from her sister’s children. Might be different when Frederick is King.
@Sixer – if that is so then their continued use of the greek titles is even worse.
Does Queen Elizabeth allow for them to be addressed as such? I remember reading somewhere that foreign royals residing in Britain need her permission (or something like that!)
Without irony she says she is all about streetstyle whilst instagraming Valentino and other couture trophy labels!!!! Lol
Girl needs some shine control, that’s all I’ve got.
keekeeing at them Miller Girls, Always Trying to make it happen LOLOLOL.. basically they are the whitebread American Version of the Middletons
Honey, close your mouth. You’ll look a bit less stupid.
As my mother would say – “close your mouth before a bug flies into it!”
Marie-Chantal was so enamoured of marrying into this “Royal” family, completely embracing the idea that her kids will be Greek Princelings that she gave all 5 kids very Greek-centric names (Olympia; Constantine- Alexios; Achileas-Andreas; Odysseas-Kimono; Aristidis-Stavros).
She certainly put more effort into naming them than educating them; none of the 5 speaks or understands Greek. Olympia was asked about it and said, “I wish I did”.
All flash and very little substance.
“all flash and very little substance” …or in other words, 21st century “royals”! 🙂
well, minus Harry of course 😉
Odysseas-KIMONO? Poor kid!
And the reason her Greek prince fell so called in love with her, she is an heiress of 200 million whoppers, hence she gets titles and he gets moolah !!!! Great trade off.
Anything Greek I think Windex !!!