Greek prince and princess to divorce after 14 years of marriage

The third child of the last king of Greece has announced he is getting divorced after 14 years of marriage.

Nikolaos Glyksburg, third child of Constantine II, and his wife, Tatiana, announced their separation on Friday.

“Prince Nikolaos and Princess Tatiana after 14 years of living together, have decided to dissolve their marriage,” a statement on the former royal family’s website read.

The statement expressed “the difficulty of this decision, the deep appreciation and respect they have for each other, but also the love with which they have walked all these years.”

The couple met during a ski holiday in Switzerland in 2003 and announced their engagement six years later.

Their wedding on the Greek island of Spetses in the summer of 2010 was one of the society events of the year and was attended by guests including royalty from Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain.

Since the wedding, the couple have lived together in Athens. They have not had children.

Tatiana dedicated much of her time to philanthropic causes while Nikolaos has a passion for photography.

The ex-royals of Greece have maintained close ties to the British monarchy, a relationship that was built around the late Prince Phillip. The family fled from Greece when he was a baby when the country first ousted its royals in the 1920s.

Constantine II lived in London during his years in exile before returning to his home country in 2013. He was said to be close to King Charles before his death last year and was godfather to the Prince of Wales.

Both Prince Phillip and Elizabeth II were godparents to Nikolaos’s older siblings, who affectionately called the late Queen “Aunt Lilibet.”

Nikolaos and Tatiana, who attended Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011, were believed to be happily married for much of their union but rumours had been swirling in recent months of an estrangement, according to the Greek media.

The couple were last seen together in public in February when they attended a memorial at Windsor to mark the first anniversary of the death of Mr Glyksburg’s father, Constantine II.

Nikolaos was born in 1969 in Rome after his father had fled Greece during a period of military dictatorship.

In the 1970s, the Greek people voted in two referendums to replace their monarchy with a republic.

Nikolaos grew up in Denmark and spent two years at an English private school as well as serving in the Royal Navy.

Tatiana was born to an aristocratic German family in Venezuela and grew up in Switzerland. She had to overcome tragedy in her childhood when her father died by suicide when she was seven years old.