Denmark’s Count Felix of Montpezat, 21, goes public with his glamorous Chilean-Danish actress girlfriend
Denmark’s most eligible bachelor, Count Felix of Montpezat, has made his very glamorous girlfriend public.
The king’s cousin, 21, has found love with Chilean-Danish actress Mie Sofia Elers, 23, a royal spokesperson confirmed. Invoiced Bladet.
Felix, the youngest son of Prince Joachim and his first wife Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, is currently visiting her and her brother Mathias in Spain, where she is studying.
The young royal, who was stripped of the title of Prince by his grandmother Queen Margrethe last year, lives in Copenhagen and is currently studying International Shipping and Trade education at the Copenhagen Business School.
Like his heartthrob older brother, Count Nikolai, he also models and runs campaigns for Georg Jensen.
The king’s cousin, 21, has found love with Chilean-Danish actress Mie Sofia Elers, 23, a royal spokesperson confirmed to Billed Bladet
Felix, the youngest son of Prince Joachim and his first wife Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, is currently visiting her and her brother Mathias in Spain where she is studying
Mie Sofia was born in Pucón Chile, to a Chilean mother and a Danish father, and studied at the Copenhagen Film and Theater School before moving to Madrid.
She has appeared in films such as Laced Silk, about a housewife who discovers the corpse of a girl on the beach, and in the TV show Strowlers.
Despite living in Denmark, Felix did not attend his uncle’s coronation last month, following Margrethe’s abdication.
His stepmother Marie and two half-siblings, Count Henrik, 14, and Countess Athena of Monpezat, 11, remained in Washington DC, where the family now lives after Joachim became Attaché for the Defense Industry at the Embassy of Denmark.
A palace spokesperson told Hello!: “Prince Joachim will be there, but the children will go to school, there is no special reason.”
However, there don’t seem to be any hard feelings from his eldest son Nikolai, who posted sweet throwback photos with both his uncle and grandmother on his Instagram account.
The student, who is currently studying in Sydney and on holiday in Bali, added that he ate Danish food, perhaps as a sign that he missed home.
In 2022, Queen Margrethe shocked royal watchers when she sensationally announced that Joachim’s four children would lose their titles.
Nikolai, 24, Felix, 21, Henrik, 13, and Athena, 11, are now known as ‘Count and Countess’ and are referred to as Their Excellencies, rather than Their Royal Highness.
Mie Sofia was born in Pucón, Chile, to a Chilean mother and a Danish father, and studied at the Copenhagen Film and Theater School before moving to Madrid.
She has appeared in films such as Laced Silk, about a housewife who discovers the corpse of a girl on the beach, and in the TV show Strowlers.
Mie is currently studying in Spain and has received a visit from her boyfriend
The Queen emphasized that this move would be “good for them in their future” and would allow the children – who have retained their position in the line of succession – to “shape their own lives without being limited by the special considerations and duties’ that a formal government entails. implies affiliation with the Danish royal family.
After the family was stripped of their titles in September 2022, Prince Joachim claimed his mother’s decision had “caused harm” to his children.
Months later, the sixth in line to the throne admitted there was a ‘lack of communication’ within the royal family in the run-up to the shock announcement.
Joachim told local news channel BT: ‘There is a lot to work on. Communication was what was missing. Now we have met and we are on the right track.’
He added that he was given only five days’ notice before the news was made public.
Prince Felix (third from right) was accompanied on his confirmation day in 2017 by his maternal grandmother Christa Manley (front left) and (from left to right) his brother Nikolai, mother Countess Alexandra, brother Henrik, grandmother Queen Margrethe, father Prince Joachim, stepmother Princess Marie, sister Athena and grandfather Prince Henrik
The Danish queen (pictured with her sons and their wives) has said the decision was aimed at giving Nikolai, 23, Felix, 20 – born from Joachim’s first marriage – and Henrik, 13, and Athena, 10, a normal life to be guided without royal obligations
The Danish royal family has updated their website to reflect the new status of four of Queen Margrethe’s grandchildren after they were stripped of HRH titles. In the photo Count Nikolai, left and right Count Felix
The 82-year-old monarch announced in September that the four children of her youngest son, 53-year-old Prince Joachim, would no longer be able to use the title of prince and princess after January 1. In the photo Countess Athena, left, and right, Count Henrik
After the queen’s announcement, Joachim spoke to Danish publication Ekstra Bladet outside the Danish embassy in Paris, where he lived with his French-born wife Princess Marie and his two youngest children, and said his four children were “hurt” by the their grandmother’s decision. .
‘I was given five days’ notice to tell them. In May I was presented with a plan that broadly stated that this would happen when the children each turned 25. Now I only had five days to tell them. Athena will turn eleven years old in January,” he clarified at the time.
Speaking to BT, Joachim and his second wife Marie also admitted that their relationship with Prince Frederik and Princess Mary is ‘complicated’.
Meanwhile, Prince Joachim’s ex-wife Alexandra said her sons, Nikolai and Felix, felt they had been “left out” of the institution and that the decision came “out of the blue.”
The Royal House said in a further statement that the ‘decision has been a long time coming’.
“We understand that there are many emotions at stake at the moment, but we hope that the Queen’s wish to future-proof the Royal Household will be respected,” the statement said.