Against all odds, the beautiful Venezuelan and the son of the kings of Greece separate after 14 years together. She, a millionaire, is dedicated to her foundation for mental health after a childhood marked by the suicide of her father.
THEY LOOKED LIKE THE PERFECT COUPLE. Handsome, rich, happy in high society meetings, in magazines and on Instagram, the current love thermometer. In the end, sadly her life was not as idyllic as we thought. Fourteen years after her wedding, Tatiana Blatnnik (44) and Prince Nicholas of Greece (54) have ended their marriage. This was announced by the Greek Royal House this weekend: “Prince Nicholas and Princess Tatiana, after 14 years of living together, have decided to dissolve their marriage. Both express the difficulty of this decision, the deep appreciation and respect they have for each other, but also the love they have walked with all these years. The same values of respect and understanding will form the basis of your relationship in the future, a relationship of deep and sincere friendship. They will continue living and working in Greece, a place where they both feel at home. The family will always be by your side. Thank you very much for your respect and discretion.” End.
The couple met thanks to Marie Chantal Miller in 2003. The rich American, wife of Pablo from Greece, organized a ski trip to Gstaad and in one of the most exclusive clubs she fell in love. A year later they were photographed for the first time at the Olympic Games in Greece.
In 2010 they married in the monastery of Agios Nikolaos on the Greek island of Spetses, where the royal family spends their summers. The finest of international royalty gathered there, as well as our entire Bourbons. There, one of the last photographs of Kings Felipe and Letizia happy and relaxed with their sisters and Urdangarin (Elena was already separated from Marichalar) was taken before the problems began.
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Tatiana Blatnik and a princess title in the air after her divorce
Tatiana Blatnik and a princess title in the air after her divorce
Tatiana and Nicolás, who have not had children, left as newlyweds to live in London. Tatiana went to work as a publicist and right hand of designer Diane von Fürstenberg and Nicholas in his father’s royal office.
Two years later they moved to Greece, where Kings Constantine and Anne Mary returned to reside after years of exile in England. There Tatiana set up the non-profit association Breathe Hellas to help mental health sufferers, a topic he knows first-hand due to his tragic family history.
Tatiana, born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1980is the daughter of the German aristocrat Marie Blanche Bierlein, who spent many years in Andalusia, and Ladislav Vladimir Blatnik, a Slovenian businessman of Jewish origin who became rich in the footwear industry in Latin America.
When she was a child, the couple, Tatiana and her brother Boris, to whom she is deeply attached, moved to Switzerland. She was barely 7 years old when her father committed suicide, leaving the family a huge void.
Her mother, once she had overcome the unexpected death of her husband, married billionaire investor Attilio Brillembourgone of the greatest fortunes in Venezuela, who took Tatiana to the altar at her wedding with Nicolás, since she considers him her second father.
Tatiana studied at the Swiss boarding school Aiglon College, then He graduated in Sociology from Georgetown.where King Felipe VI and his cousin and close friend Pablo de Grecia lived years before.
Family trauma
Tatiana has never shied away from talking about her family trauma, an episode of which she has made a professional virtue. Two years ago she opened up on the Pame Danai program on Greek TV: “I was seven years old when my father committed suicide, but I found out when I was 14, and at 20 I managed to talk about it.” According to her testimony, it was not just her suicide that traumatized her, but the secrecy that his family kept around the circumstances and reasons for his father’s death. For this reason, Queen Anna Maria of Greece’s favorite daughter-in-law has always taken great care, almost to the point of obsession, of herself and others. She does yoga, takes long walks with friends, practices mindfulness (she has revealed that her brother introduced her to that discipline) and takes great care of her diet.
His foundation, Breathe, from which the NGO Breathe Hellas mentioned above was born, raises awareness about the importance of identifying mental health problems in order to treat them as soon as possible. As explained on its website, “it aims to improve the understanding of mental health by creating self care tools that can be used in the home and that can create a sense of community, while simplifying access to professional mental health care.
As confirmed by the Greek Royal House, Tatiana will maintain her title of princess of Greece and Denmark for now. Another thing is when he signs the divorce… Or if he rebuilds her life.
