When Harry met Meghan in 2016, could anyone have guessed their trajectory?
On the other hand, not all these royals who left their home country are from Europe.
Let’s take that world tour, shall we?
She was a great-granddaughter to Queen Victoria.
Unfortunately, by 1922, political unrest led the Greek royal family to take refuge outside of Greece.
After her release, she relocated to Greece only to flee again in 1967 following more political unrest.
This time, she landed in the U.K., where her son was Queen Elizabeth II’s prince consort.
Princess Alice lived at Buckingham Palace until her death in 1969.
But Prince Philip never considered Paris his home.
In fact, throughout his childhood, he had no permanent home.
In 1939, he joined the British Royal Navy.
In 1947, the two would marry.
In 1952, she became Queen Elizabeth II, and he, the prince consort.
Born in 1872, Princess Alix was the child of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
(Alix was the aunt of Princess Alice of Battenberg and a great-aunt of Prince Philip.)
Disappointed, the queen nevertheless supported Alix’s choice.
After marrying in 1894, Nicholas inherited the Russian crown.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The two were married in 1858 albeit in England, much to the dismay of some German folk.
She died of cancer in 1901, the same year as her mother.
On December 11, 1936, the king abdicated.
France is where the couple made their home, with interim tenures elsewhere in Germany and the Bahamas.
Her daughter, Princess Charlotte, died during labor in 1817.
Rather, the French monarchy was reinstated in 1814 when Napoleon I stepped down as emperor.
There he remained until his death in 1850.
But it wasn’t the first time that Louis-Philippe had lived in exile.
Born in 1773, he supported the French Revolution along with his father, a French duke.
But in 1793, Louis-Philippe deserted to Switzerland.
But she wasn’t cool with that.
The couple’s first child, Princess Leonore, was born in New York City in 2014.
As with many of the other royal emigres discussed here, this is not Joachim’s first relocation rodeo.
He and his family moved to Paris in 2019.
But even before that, Prince Joachim had been struggling to chart a course as the royal spare.
It’s enough to make one wonder whether Prince Harry may have started a trend.
That’s when she made the controversial decision to attend university in Tokyo.
Not that this created a rift in the couple, who tied the knot in 2021.
Little else is known about the couple other than they have no social media presence.
