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Her father is the former king of duty- free shopping. He has his own hedge fund, investing money for, among others, his extended family, which includes the reigning monarchs of Spain and Denmark. She has a line of children’s wear and recently opened her sixth shop, in Southampton, Long Island. They live in an 1. London, decorated by François Catroux and hung with paintings by Damien Hirst, Donald Baechler, and Jean- Michel Basquiat. They have four children, with names straight out of Greek history: Olympia, Constantine, Achileas, and Odysseas.

And, more than 1. European nobility and American money, Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie- Chantal of Greece (as they are known despite the fact that Greece hasn’t been a monarchy since 1. At a time when many of Marie- Chantal’s contemporaries, including both of her sisters, Pia Getty and Alexandra von Fürstenberg, have had their seemingly perfect marriages end in early divorces, she and Pavlos continue to rank as one of international society’s most glamorous and popular couples, a position affirmed by the glittering “Angels and Demons” bash she threw last fall for his 4.

Spain to News Corporation heir apparent James Murdoch.“They’ve been fabulous for one another,” says Pavlos’s cousin Prince Michael of Greece. As in the case of all our families, we’ve been around for a certain number of centuries, and Marie- Chantal brought fresh air. Not that we needed it, but it’s always good to have fresh air. She made Pavlos blossom.

And he did a lot for her also. It’s a marriage that—touch wood—works beautifully. The fact that they come from totally different backgrounds helps, because they learn from each other.”“You have to have a partnership,” says Marie- Chantal, when asked why she thinks their marriage has thrived. You have to have a friendship.

You have to have love and understanding. If you don’t have those elements, eventually it will start to fall apart.”“You’ve got to be comrades,” adds Pavlos.

It all began in 1. That’s how long Alecko Papamarkou, a super- social New York investment banker whose father had been an aide to Pavlos’s grandfather King Paul, had been regaling the young prince with talk of Marie- Chantal Miller, the middle daughter of the self- made duty- free billionaire Robert Miller, who just happened to be a Papamarkou client.

Miller and his wife, Chantal, a petite Ecuadoran beauty of Spanish and Incan blood, lived in Hong Kong, but they also had houses in Paris, London, and New York, as well as a chalet in Gstaad, a hunting lodge set on 3. Yorkshire, and a 1.

Miller had won several prestigious races. Their eldest daughter, Pia, had just married Christopher Getty—a grandson of the oil tycoon J. Paul Getty—to whom she had been introduced by Papamarkou.

When the Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos decided to give his son Philip a 4. New Orleans, the wily banker saw his opportunity to make an equally stellar match for Marie- Chantal.“Alecko arranged to take me as his companion,” she recalls. I didn’t want to go. I knew it was a big matchup, because Alecko had been telling me for weeks that he knew the perfect person for me.

And I didn’t feel comfortable being set up. I tried to get out of it, but Alecko never returned my phone calls and we had arranged to meet at the airport. So I ended up going. I borrowed a navy- blue Chanel couture suit from my mother and looked like a million bucks.”Pavlos continues the story: “Alecko not only managed to ensure that both of us turned up at the same place, but also actually had us sit next to each other at dinner.”Marie- Chantal: “And we clicked.

It was love at first sight. I knew that he was the person I would marry.”Pavlos: “I was completely taken. I’m not the kind of person who had girlfriends and then had little affairs on the side. I always had a girlfriend and moved on and went to another one. But the moment I saw Marie- Chantal, I said, Well, this is what I’ve been looking for.

Alecko was right.”“I bring all this energy, and he gives me all this calm,” says Marie- Chantal with a laugh. Crown Prince Pavlos was born in Athens to King Constantine II and Queen Anne- Marie, a Danish royal princess, on May 2. One month earlier, right- wing colonels had overthrown the democratically elected government. Constantine, then only 2. December. When it failed, the royal family fled into exile in Rome.

There Pavlos and his older sister, Alexia, and younger brother Nikolaos were educated at home by Greek tutors. When Pavlos was six they moved to Denmark—“because of all the kidnappings in Italy,” he explains. We lived with my grandmother Queen Ingrid in Copenhagen. That was a wonderful year.”In 1. Turkish troops landing on Cyprus and the colonels’ regime collapsing in Athens, it seemed the moment had come for the royal family to go home. But the newly installed conservative prime minister, Constantine Karamanlis, after persuading King Constantine to wait until the situation stabilized, double- crossed him by holding a referendum on the restoration of the monarchy, which was rejected by a two- to- one margin.

Constantine and Anne- Marie moved to London, where they bought a house overlooking Hampstead Heath and established a Hellenic school to educate their children and those of other Greek families living in London. Philippos Stratos, a classmate of Alexia’s and a close family friend, says, “Pavlos was always a very sentimental boy and very clear in his thinking. He was serious about his studies, but he was also very happy to go out and play a game of tennis.”Pavlos was close to his maternal grandmother, Queen Mother Frederica, who lived part of the time with them and part of the time in Madrid with her son- in- law and daughter, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia. A controversial figure, Frederica had been raised at the court of her grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and had rallied Greek troops against the Communists during the 1. Pavlos and his siblings saw a softer side. She’d go out and camp with us in the middle of nowhere in Spain,” he says.

And we’d go and see her in India, where she lived for a while, studying philosophy in Madras. I still have a letter she wrote to me, about how proud she was of the King of Spain for preventing his country from being taken over by a junta. She said that she felt I would be able to do the same. She always had in her mind that one day we would return. The New Year’s Eve before she passed away, she looked at me and said, ‘We’re going to Greece this year.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, like every year.’ And she said, ‘No, no. I don’t know how, but I’m going back this year.’ ”Frederica died in February 1.

Greek government allowed the royal family to bury her beside King Paul at Tatoi, the family estate north of Athens. The government requested we not stay overnight,” recalls Pavlos, who was 1.

My father agreed, because he didn’t want to create a de- stabilizing situation or look like he was taking advantage of his mother’s death. So we flew in, had the burial ceremony, then flew right out again. But so many people came out to see us. It was a very memorable occasion for me, not having been in Greece since I was seven months old, and suddenly having all these people around us, screaming and yelling and crying, saying that we should be returning for good.

And it wasn’t just people coming from the hillsides who were jumping onto our cars. Easy Cookies Recipe there. It was also the soldiers who had been lined up in the road to protect us.”In elections later that year, the conservatives lost their parliamentary majority to the socialists, and the rabble- rousing Andreas Papandreou became prime minister, determined to put King Constantine in his place. The Hellenic school, which was overseen by the Greek Ministry of Education, suddenly found its faculty packed with anti- royalists. My name on my essays would be crossed out by the teachers,” says Pavlos.