‘I met him a year ago. He is a kind and religious young man, with real values and his feet on the ground. I am very happy for my daughter,’ Prince Charles-Louis instructed Point de Vue, revealing that Hélène ‘loves her life [in Lisbon] which is both sweet and simple’. He additionally instructed the publication that he and his spouse would meet the next week with Francisco’s dad and mom to talk about preparations for the upcoming wedding ceremony. This considerably grand meet-the-in-laws will happen on the house of a cousin, Dona Elisabeth Martorell de Orléans, granddaughter of Dom Pedro of Orléans-Braganza and goddaughter of Juan Carlos .
Little is identified in regards to the forthcoming nuptials, besides that they’re rumoured to be scheduled for June 2026 – though no location has but been determined. It is certain, nonetheless, to be a grand and aristocratic affair attended by the best European the Aristocracy, particularly given how shut Hélène is to her household. In 2022, the Princess opened Le Bal on the Shangri-La lodge in Paris on the arm of her older brother, Prince Philippe. Wearing a shocking, pale pink embellished robe, Hélène danced the night time away with her brother and proud dad and mom, in addition to her cousin, Syvila Manou of Greece, who was a debutante that very same yr.
‘We’re very close,’ the then 21-year-old instructed Business Insider of her relationship with her cousin, with whom she prepped for the ball with just a few days of pampering beforehand. ‘What I like the most about this weekend is the fact that a lot of my family is here. I see it as a very wholesome moment,’ she added. ‘I’m so glad to meet other people but I’m definitely not doing it for networking.’ Royal watchers can due to this fact fairly anticipate Hélène’s upcoming wedding ceremony to be fabulously grand, sure – however greater than something, it is going to foreground her deep household ties.