Princess Diana‘s godson Prince Philippos and his wife Princess Nina of Greece have announced the birth of their first baby, through whom they welcomed surrogacy a historic step for the country Royal family.
The couple, who secretly tied the knot in Switzerland in December 2020, welcomed their son, Kimon Thomas Konstantinos, on July 27, 2026, in the United States.
A statement from the office of Greece’s former royal family said that “Philippos De Grèce and his wife Nina are pleased to announce the birth of their first child.”
It continued: “Kimon was born using a baby carrier. Nina and Philippos express their sincere gratitude to the surrogate mother and her family for guiding them during this special journey.
‘They also thank the medical team and key professionals for their care and support.
‘Nina and Philippos cherish these first precious weeks together with Kimon and are extremely happy to be able to start this new family chapter with their son.
New York-based financial analyst Philippos, 40, named after the late Prince Philip and born and raised in London, and aviation heiress Nina, 39, sought to honor Nina’s father, Thomas Flohr, with their son’s middle name.
Meanwhile, Philippos’ late father, Constantine II, the last king of Greece who died in 2023, also received a touching tribute with the sweet name. No photos of the little one have been shared publicly so far.
Princess Diana’s godson, Prince Philippos, and his wife Princess Nina of Greece (pictured in September 2022) have announced the birth of their first baby, whom they welcomed via surrogacy, a historic step for the country’s royal family.
Although the use of a surrogate mother is unusual for a member of the royal family, Philippos’ cousin, Prince Gustav of Denmark and his wife Princess Carina, then 54 years old, also welcomed their first child via a surrogate in 2023.
In October 2021, Prince Philippos, the godson of the late Prince Philip, married for the third time in Athens to his partner, then Nina Flohr, the daughter of Swiss billionaire businessman Thomas Flohr.
The couple first married in a small civil ceremony in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in December, followed by a high society spring celebration in Cambridgeshire.
Although both were intimate affairs – indeed the first featured only the two fathers as witnesses – the third wedding at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens had all the makings of a full-blown extravaganza.
Philippos, the youngest child of Greece’s last king and queen, Constantine II and Anne-Marie of Denmark, and Nina were on the guest list for Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding in 2018, while Nina is also good friends with Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Beatrice’s husband.
Both Eugenie and Beatrice, along with their husbands, were among the high-profile guests at the lavish wedding in Athens.
The guest list included the late King Constantine of Greece (Prince William‘s godfather) and Queen Anne-Marie of Denmark, who continued to use their royal titles despite the abolition of the Greek monarchy in 1974.
The groom has four siblings, including Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, who shares five children with jet-set socialite Marie-Chantal of Greece.
The couple (pictured), who secretly tied the knot in Switzerland in December 2020, welcomed their son, Kimon Thomas Konstantinos, on July 27, 2026 in the United States.
Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark and Princess Nina pictured during their wedding at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens in Greece
His paternal aunt is Queen Sofia of Spain, mother of the current King Felipe, while another godmother and the groom’s maternal aunt is Princess Benedkeek of Denmark. Margrethe II of Denmark is also an aunt on her mother’s side.
Lady Penelope Knatchbull, the Duke of Edinburgh’s longtime companion, is also the groom’s godmother.
Philippos was born at St Mary’s Hospital in London in 1986 and grew up in a stately 13-bedroom home on the edge of Hampstead Heath, where Princess Diana was a frequent visitor with Prince William and Prince Harry.
He is known for being private and largely shuns the spotlight, but he has attended numerous high-profile events, such as the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden in 2010 and her sister Princess Madeleine in 2013.
The Georgetown University graduate has worked as a hedge fund analyst in New York while his wife founded the nonprofit marine research facility, the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies (BCSS), in 2017.
She is the daughter of Swiss businessman Thomas Flohr, who founded the private jet charter company VistaJet, where she also worked as creative director.
The Crown Prince Pavlos has no official assignment, but still actively participates in royal life throughout Europe. The family is closely linked to the British royal family, as King Constantine was second cousins of King Charles and the godfather of Prince William.
In December 2024 members of Greece‘s former royal family expressed ‘deep emotions’ after the decision to restore their citizenship.
The couple’s second low-key wedding was hosted by Vogue writer Alice Naylor-Leyland and her husband Tom at their home, Stibbington House in Cambridge, pictured
Prince Philippos is pictured with his wife Nina Flohr celebrating the wedding of Theodora of Greece and Matthew
The late King Constantine II and his relatives were stripped of Greek citizenship in 1994 in a dispute with the government over former royal properties and over claims that he refused to relinquish any right to the Greek throne for his descendants.
The Greek monarchy was abolished by referendum in December 1974, when voters overwhelmingly supported a republican constitution, months after the fall of a seven-year military dictatorship. The exiled royal family subsequently lived in England for many years.
In a decision published in the Government Gazette, citizenship was granted to ten members of the former royal family.
Among them are the five children of the late King and former Queen Anne-Marie, as well as five of their grandchildren.
The royal family’s statement was shared by Crown Prince Pavlos, Constantine’s eldest son, on his Instagram account and was posted in both Greek and English.
The official statement read: ‘It is with deep emotion that, after thirty years, we once again retain Greek citizenship. The 1994 law stripped us of our citizenship, leaving us stateless, with all that this entails in terms of individual rights and major emotional distress.
‘Our father and our family fully respected the outcome of the 1974 referendum.
‘However, the provision of the 1994 Citizenship Law, a consequence of the political status at the time, did not suit a former Greek head of state and an institution that faithfully served the country. Our father’s death marked the end of an era.’
Constantine’s five children are Alexia, Pavlos, Nikolaos, Theodora and Philippos. Pavlos’ five children were also granted citizenship: Maria-Olympia, Constantine-Alexios, Achileas-Andreas, Odysseas-Kimon and Aristidis-Stavros.
“After fifty years since the restoration of democracy, we have a strong democracy and a protected constitution that can defend itself, with laws that apply without footnotes or exceptions,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said before the decision was published.
The royal family also adopted a new surname, ‘De Grece’ – which is French for ‘of Greece’.
Members of the royal family lived in exile for decades before Constantine returned as a private citizen in his seventies.
They were stripped of their Greek citizenship in 1994 during a legal battle over the former royal estate, which is now state-owned.
They had previously refused to adopt a surname, moving away from the name Glucksburg, granted in a 1994 law, which they said tied them too closely to their German heritage and made them appear less legitimately Greek.
