In the autumn of 2020, the former Greek royal family announced as usual the marriage of Constantine’s youngest son, Prince Philip, to the Swiss Nina Flor, in the autumn of 2020. Unknown to the Greek public, but prominent in the international jet-set, the multi-faceted bride was initially treated as just another wealthy scion, living a life of debauchery and killing time between social invitations and charity galas. Which is absolutely true but only half true in the case of Princess Nina, as she now calls herself.

The only descendant of the billionaire owner of Vistajet, the world’s largest private aircraft company, the one that made the unparalleled luxury of 35,000 feet a reality, is not just a pampered daughter who makes sure she enjoys to the marrow of her ancestral fortune of more than two billion euros.

She is also an energetic and resourceful young businesswoman who has decided to invest her – okay, her father’s – livelihood in the far reaches of Africa, creating a retreat for the Croesus, the filthy rich, cosmopolitans, celebrities or, in any case, anyone willing to pay between $5,000 and $7,000 a day for a stay in the closest thing to a paradise on earth.

Kisawa Sanctuary

Built on Benguela Island, 14 kilometres off the coast of Mozambique, the five-star resort is a personal bet of Princess Nina, who with this African hotel – which welcomed its first guests a few months before her wedding in 2021 – seems to have weaned herself from paternal security. After all, before she took on the mantle of hotelier with international stature and sky-high ambition, she worked as creative director at her father’s VIP airline. It was to her, for example, that the signature Moncler uniforms worn by the flight crews are indebted, and it was she who persuaded chef Nobu Matsuhisha to literally take off his culinary creations. But by 2017, it was time for the then 30-year-old Swiss woman to count her boots as a young, feisty entrepreneur with an inexhaustible reserve.

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