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Crown Princess of Greece | |||||
Marie-Chantal and her husband at the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden, 8 June 2013
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Born |
London, England |
17 September 1968 ||||
Spouse | Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (m. 1995) | ||||
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Father | Robert Warren Miller | ||||
Mother | Chantal Pesantes | ||||
Religion |
Greek Orthodox prev. Roman Catholic |
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Marie-Chantal Claire |
Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark (née Miller; born 17 September 1968 in London, England), is the wife of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, son of the deposed King Constantine II of Greece.
Marie-Chantal Miller was born in London, England, to María Clara “Chantal” Pesantes Becerra, an Ecuadorian, and Robert Warren Miller, an American-born British businessman. She has an older sister, Pia, ex-wife of Christopher Getty, and a younger sister, Alexandra, ex-wife of Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg. She was baptized in the Catholic Church at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City by Cardinal John O’Connor, Archbishop of New York with Princess Donatella Missikoff Flick as her godmother.
Marie-Chantal was raised in Hong Kong where she attended The Peak School until she was 9 years-old when she went to board at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. In 1982 she transferred to the Ecole Active Bilingue in Paris until her senior year which she took at The Masters School in New York which was then girls only. After graduating she attended the Academy of Arts for one year. She began a degree in History of Art at New York University in 1993 but dropped out a year later after Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, proposed to her on a skiing holiday in Gstaad, Switzerland, at Christmas.