It could have been any young mother on holiday with her children, eating ice cream and scribbling in colouring books on an open-air terrace in Greece. But the white-vest-clad woman with windswept hair and minimal make-up was none other than Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
Perhaps looking for tranquility far from Copenhagen, where her pending divorce from Prince Joachim is topping the news, the princess and her two little boys, Nikolai and Felix, were vacationing on the picturesque Greek isle of Paros.
The seaside holiday included several generations of Alexandra's family, as the threesome were joined by the princess' parents, Richard and Christa Manley, who these days are also based in Denmark.
It was surely a welcome respite for Alexandra, who, along with the rest of the Danish royals, has had a difficult summer. Queen Margrethe and her family have been putting on a united front since the mid-September divorce announcement. And in the same month the queen's other daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, underwent gall bladder surgery. |
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