On January 27, local time, two princes of Denmark, Nikolai and Felix, appeared at the Auber-St. Vitus Church in Vienna, Austria, ready to pay a final tribute to their maternal grandmother, Christa Manley.
It is no longer accurate to say that Nikolai and Felix are princes, because from the first day of the year they ceased to have this title, but became "Count of Montezart".
This was the decision made by the queen's grandmother Margaret II, along with the brothers, who lost the title of prince along with their half-brother Hendrik, and their half-sister Athena, who also lost the title of princess. Still, some fans are willing to call them princes, a title they've had since birth.
Nicholas and Felix's grandmother, Christa Manley, died peacefully on the 5th of this month at the age of 89. Krista is Austrian, while her husband, Richard Nigel Manley, is of mixed English descent and was born in Shanghai. Richard died in 2010, just two years after he and his wife moved from Denmark to Austria.
The Manly couple met in Hong Kong, where their well-known daughter, Mun Yali, was born and raised, and met Prince Joachim of Denmark at a private dinner.
Because of some Chinese ancestry, Wenyali is known as the "Chinese Princess", but she is known in Denmark as Alexandra, Countess of Frederikburg, and even if she divorced the prince, the queen let her retain this noble title.
At the funeral, the 58-year-old wore a large white flower on her head and looked very striking, and standing next to her two sisters, Nicolas Maria Manley and Martina Francis Manley, now live in London and Hong Kong, respectively.
It is reported that although Wen Yali can speak a little Cantonese, but is not fluent, she claims to be her mother tongue in English and German, and because she was going to marry Prince Joachim at that time, she also quickly mastered Danish, and there was almost no accent, so it was loved by the people of the country, coupled with a very fashionable sense and also keen on charity, so she also had the reputation of "Diana of the North".
After the funeral, Nikolai, now 23, and his girlfriend Benedi Ktethoustrup hugged Wen Yali together, and the picture was very warm.
Bennedy is Nikolai's high school classmate, and the two have been together for 5 or 6 years and have always been very affectionate. The daughter of the bank president is currently the founder of a small and micro business.
Although he was born a prince, Nikolai, the prince, was not too dashing. This may be the reason for the limited financial resources of the Danish royal family, as early as a few years ago, Margrethe II announced that except for the eldest grandson Christian, all other grandchildren would have to support themselves when they became adults, and there was no "royal family". So the outstanding Nikolai became a male model, and he has walked the catwalk for many big names, after all, the identity of "blue blood" is also quite useful in the fashion circle.
However, Nikolai also admitted that being a male model is not his career, just a means of subsistence, and he has a higher goal.
The 21-year-old Prince Felix also followed in his brother's footsteps and became a male model, and I have to say that this little prince, who also has a small amount of Chinese blood, has become really more and more handsome, and seems to be more stylish than his brother.