Last summer, Margrethe II's 24-year-old grandson Nikolai de Montpezat flew to Australia, accompanied by his girlfriend Benedikte Thoustrup. Both students, they decided to study for a semester on the other side of the world. Once this deadline passed, a desire for a getaway arose for the couple as the Christmas holidays approached. They went not far from Australia, to New Zealand.
Nostalgic, the young man posted photos of their journey on Instagram on April 11, 2024, explaining in the caption: “It makes me miss this beautiful place.” He published 8 photos for the attention of his 106,000 subscribers on Instagram, each more impressive than the next, showing a dream landscape decorated with mountains, fields, greenery, flowers of all kinds and lakes. Moments of happiness shared with his girlfriend, as evidenced by a selfie of the couple, smiles on their lips and hair blowing in the wind.
An uncertain but happy journey
In October 2022, an announcement caused a sensation within the Danish royal family: Queen Margrethe II had removed the royal titles from her grandchildren, Nikolai, Felix, Henrik, and Athena, children of Prince Joachim of Denmark. According to her, it was the best way for them to choose their destiny. Then aged 23, Nikolaï, who had become a “simple” Count of Montpezat, reacted to the news during an interview in the Danish media
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, not without a certain sadness: “We have to do it. "to see, this news hits us hard, and all the more so since it was made public,” he said.
In 2020, the young man confided, in an interview with the Danish newspaper
BT,
that he was looking for his way. After trying his hand at several fields such as military training in 2019, or even studies in business administration at a business school in Copenhagen, he said he did not know what he really wanted to undertake: “What “What the future holds for me on a purely professional level, I don’t know yet,” he declared. He has always remained open to all the opportunities offered to him, such as modeling - he was able to walk for brands such as Dior in 2021 or Rains in 2022. In this same interview, he said he dreamed of studying abroad. Four years later, it’s done. The eldest son of Prince Joachim of Denmark went to Australia for a period of 6 months with his girlfriend, who is said to be the daughter of the president of the Sydbank banking group, according to the Paris Match newspaper. A fallen prince, but a happy prince.