The Danish Royal House announced today that Princess Nathalie is engaged to Alexander Johannsmann! Wow, this is shaping up to be quite the year for engagements and weddings.

Princess Nathalie, 34, is the youngest child of Princess Benedikte (sister of Queen Margrethe II) and Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. She is a former dressage world champion and was a member of the 2008 Danish Olympic team. The photo above was taken in 2007 during a training event for the World Cup Challenge in Odense, Denmark. Princess Nathalie currently works as a horse breeder and trainer in Germany. Her fiance, Alexander, 32, …read more

In front: Princess Anne the Princess Royal, and her brother Prince Edward the Earl of Wessex; behind them, Autumn and Peter Phillips (Princess Anne’s son)
Much is being made of the dress that Princess Anne wore to last weekend’s wedding between Lady Rose Windsor and George Gilman. The white and yellow print dress was the same one that the Princess Royal wore to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, 27 years ago! She even wore the same yellow hat.