Turkish coast this week
Two years after beginning a new married life with Martin Jorgensen, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg has the glow of a truly contented wife and mother. The 45-year-old was seen holidaying on the Turkish coast this week, looking happy, relaxed, and with a rather funkier image than during her union with Prince Joachim of Denmark.
Wearing an asymmetric tie-dye T-shirt, jeans and gold flats plus sporting a trendy short new haircut, Alexandra seemed like any other tourist enjoying the sights. With her as always were her three special guys photographer husband Martin and her children by Joachim, Nikolai, ten, and Felix, seven.
As the family strolled through the beachside resort of Alanya tucking into ice cream it was clear that her two bright-eyed little princes are also thriving. It helps that 31-year-old Martin regards the youngsters as his own.
Asked about the possibility of more children he is wont to reply firmly, but politely: “Our family is just as it should be”. Joachim, Queen Margrethe’s younger son, has also made an effort to include them in his new life with French-born wife Marie, who presented him with another son earlier this year. The pair frequently holiday together with the boys, while Joachim often joins Alexandra for family get-togethers, despite their 2005 divorce.
Nearly ten years later Princess Alexandra would pass one of the thorniest moments of her life, when her seemingly fairytale marriage would come to a high-profile end. The daughter of Shanghai-born Richard Manley and Austria-native Christa Nowotny, Alexandra the eldest of three sisters came into the world in Hong Kong on June 30, 1964. A commoner, she had a middle-class upbringing thanks to her father and mother’s respective careers as an insurance company executive and manager of a communications company.
Described by one former teacher as “cool and sophisticated”, the bright young beauty completed her general schooling in Hong Kong, going on to studying international business abroad at universities in Vienna, Tokyo and London. It was after returning to Hong Kong that Alexandra met Prince Joachim at a party in the city, where the handsome young royal was working for a Danish shipping company.
After a whirlwind courtship, thought to have begun in late autumn of 1994, Prince Joachim, on bended knee, presented Alexandra with a diamond and ruby engagement ring while the couple holidayed together in the Philippines. Their engagement, which took both Alexandra’s family and Danish royal watchers by surprise, was officially revealed in May 1995. Hello Magazine reported online.
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