Princess Marie of Denmark
| Princess Marie | |||||
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| Countess of Monpezat | |||||
Princess Marie at the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden, 8 June 2013
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| Born |
6 February 1976 Paris, France |
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| Spouse | Prince Joachim of Denmark (m. 2008) | ||||
| Issue |
Prince Henrik Princess Athena |
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| Father | Alain Cavallier | ||||
| Mother | Françoise Grassiot | ||||
| Religion |
Church of Denmark prev. Roman Catholic |
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| Marie Agathe Odile |
Princess Marie of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, RE (née Marie Agathe Odile Cavallier, born 6 February 1976) is the second wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark.
Marie Cavallier was born in Paris, France. She is the only child of Alain Cavallier and Françoise Grassiot (née Moreau). She moved to Geneva, Switzerland with her mother following the divorce of her parents.
She has two older, maternal half-brothers: Benjamin and Gregory Grandet, both born in Switzerland; and two younger, paternal half-brothers: Charles and Edouard Cavallier, both born in Paris.
After her parents divorced, Marie was sent to the Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil boarding school in Switzerland, where members of the Luxembourg ruling house have also studied. She attended Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for a brief time, to study international business and economics and then went on to study economics in Genève. Marie earned a Bachelor of Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. During her years in college, Marie worked for Estée Lauder, as assistant to the public relations manager in 1994, and as an assistant to the managing director of ING Numismatic Group SA in Genève.
After graduating, she started working for DoubleClick Inc, an international advertising agency, in New York as international marketing coordinator. Back in France, she worked for advertising agency Media Marketing. She then worked for Reuters financial news agency Radianz in Switzerland, took a position with REInvest in Geneva and worked as executive secretary in ING Numismatic Group SA until the engagement.
Princess Marie's mother tongue is French. In addition she speaks English, Spanish and Italian. In connection to her wedding with Prince Joachim she started taking lessons in Danish.
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