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Meet Hong Kong’s heiress ‘princess’ Alexandra von Furstenberg: how the daughter of duty free billionaire Robert Warren Miller married Diane von Furstenberg’s royal son Prince Alexander

How Hong Kong-born Alexandra von Furstenberg married into a life of royalty. Photo: Getty
Many of Hong Kong’s A-listers enjoy the perks, privileges and luxuries of being bona fide celebrity royalty, but did you know the city has also seen one of its own become an actual, fully recognised royal?
Alexandra von Furstenberg with billionaire businessman dad Robert Warren Miller. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

Meet 49-year-old Alexandra von Furstenberg, the heiress of a Hong Kong-based billionaire businessman, who leveraged her lofty position and later went on to marry into a fascinating life of both fashion royalty … and actual royalty.

Alexandra von Furstenberg was born and raised in Hong Kong. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

Here’s everything you need to know about Hong Kong’s royal export, Alexandra von Furstenberg.

This billionaire heiress was born and bred in Hong Kong

The Miller sisters. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

Glamorous Alexandra von Furstenberg is the daughter of Hong Kong based billionaire Robert Warren Miller, an entrepreneur and co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops), and his Ecuadorean wife Maria Clara Pesantes Becerra.

Robert Warren Miller, entrepreneur and co-founder of DFS (Duty Free Shops). Photo: Jonathan Wong

Unlike her two older sisters, Marie-Chantal Claire and Pia Getty, von Furstenberg was born in Hong Kong in 1972.

The Miller sisters with their mother. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

The girls spent most of their formative years in the former British colony. As they grew up, they eventually split their time between Hong Kong, Paris and New York, according to Australian women’s network 9Honey.

She married an actual prince

Alexandra von Furstenberg’s wedding in 1995. Photo: AP
On October 28, 1995, Alexandra went from heiress to princess when she married Prince Alexander von Furstenberg, the son of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and Prince Egon von Furstenberg. The royal lineage originates from southern Germany, in the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg, and the nuptials took place at the Church of St Ignatius of Loyola in New York City.
Designer Diane von Furstenberg, left, and Talita von Furstenberg attend the spring/summer 2020 Savage X Fenty show, presented by Amazon Prime, at the Barclays Center in 2019, in New York. Photo: AP

The couple have two children, Princess Talita Natasha, born in 1999, and Prince Tassilo Egon Maximillian born in 2001. The couple separated after seven years together in 2002 and eventually divorced.

She’s a creative just he like mother-in-law

Diane von Furstenberg, right, and her daughter-in-law Alexandra von Furstenberg, pose in wrap dresses designed by Diane. Von Furstenberg’s wrap dress, a sign of the 70s, has been revived, and she’s also showing wrap halters and wrap jumpsuits. Photo: AP

The same year she married Prince Alexander, she joined her mother-in-law’s design team and during her 10 years there she served as creative director, and later, director of image, Alexandra von Furstenberg was instrumental in the relaunch of the iconic wrap dress, according to the brand’s biography.

Alexandra von Furstenberg shifted her career from fashion to homeware. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

After relocating to California in 2005, Alexandra ditched fashion and focused on designing exclusively for the home instead. In 2007, she created namesake Alexandra Von Furstenberg, LLC, a brand that designs and creates modern furniture and home accessories.

Her sister married into royalty too!

DFS owner Robert Warren Miller with his daughter Marie-Chantal Miller leaving Claridge’s in London before her wedding with Prince of Denmark in July 1, 1995. Photo: UPPA
In 1995, the same year Alexandra von Furstenberg married a prince, her sister Marie-Chantal Miller got engaged to Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, son of the deposed King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Denmark. The royal wedding took place at St Sophia’s Cathedral in London during the summer of 1995.

Princess Olympia of Greece and her mother Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece. Photo: @mariechantal22/Instagram

The 53-year-old princess is also the founder and creative director of Marie-Chantal, an international children’s clothing brand that she founded in 2000. The couple have five children and are still together.

Where is she now?

The billionaire heiress remarried in 2015 to architectural designer Dax Miller. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

Alexandra von Furstenberg’s royal days are long gone, but as the mother of Princess Talita Natasha and Prince Tassilo, not all ties are lost.

Dax Miller is an architectural designer. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

The billionaire heiress found a new prince charming (minus the actual titles) when she wed architectural designer Dax Miller in 2015 at a new luxury property he designed for her and his new royal stepchildren, per AD.

Alexandra von Furstenberg’s 2015 wedding to Dax Miller. Photo: @avfhome/Instagram

Princess Marie-Chantal Claire attended the nuptials held at the couple’s 18,000 sq ft, five-bedroom Los Angeles home, which sits on what is widely considered to be one of the most expensive streets in all of Los Angeles: South Mapleton Drive in the heart of the Holmby Hills.

South Mapleton Drive in the heart of the Holmby Hills. Photo: Google Maps

However, Alexandra’s children and her eldest sister Pia Getty were notably absent. Mysteriously, they were not featured in any of the many family photos from the lavish event, according to tabloid reports at the time.

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  • The billionaire DFS heiress was born in Hong Kong, and enjoyed a lavish childhood with socialite sisters Pia Getty and Marie-Chantal – who also married an actual prince
  • She was married to iconic fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg’s son Prince Alexander for seven years and has two royal children: Princess Talita Natasha and Prince Tassilo