Sad news today! Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł, Mrs Fruchaud has passed away at the age of 86. The nurse and bacteriologist was the daughter of a Polish Prince and a Greek Princess, and the granddaughter of the legendary Princess Marie Bonaparte, as well as being the lifelong friend of Queen Sofia of Spain.
The only daughter of Prince Dominic Radziwiłł and Princess Eugenie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Tatiana was born in France just before the declaration of war and spent some years of her childhood with the Greek Royal Family in exile in South Africa during World War II.
Princess Tatiana grew up in France, with frequent visits to Greece, and holidays around the world with her grandmother, the glamorous Princess Marie Bonaparte, a patron of Freud. Since childhood, Princess Tatiana became close friends with her cousin Princess Sophia of Greece, now Queen Sofia of Spain, and the two have remained lifelong friends ever since.
Princess Tatiana attended many grand events, including the Wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sofia of Greece, the Wedding of King Constantine of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, the Greek Monarchy Centenary, and the Wedding of Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark, and was also linked to Crown Prince Harald of Norway in the 1960s.
After meeting while she was studying nursing and bacteriology at the University of Paris, Princess Tatiana married Dr John-Henri Fruchaud at the Catholic Church in Irakleio in Athens in 1966, settling in Paris, where they had two children, Fabiola and Alexis.
Princess Tatiana remained close to the Greek, Spanish, and Danish Royal Families throughout her life, attending the Wedding of Prince Philippos of Greece, the Funeral of King Constantine II of Greece, and the Wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece in recent years, and most recently a Lunch at the El Pardo Palace in Madrid last month.
Diamond Tiara
Cartier Pearl and Diamond Bandeau
Queen Sofia’s Pearl and Star Tiara
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