A photo, purportedly of Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Prince Georg of Liechtenstein, in Greece, has gone viral on social media. The original photo was uploaded to an Instagram story on an account linked to Prince Georg..jpeg)
Instagram stories last for 24 hours before disappearing into the void. This screenshot was sent to me by someone who saw it in a Reddit group about royals. The account has the name Georg_Liechtenstein, tagging ElisabethvSG. This account has been deactivated or deleted.
Princess Elisabeth, 23, resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is enrolled in a two-year master’s program in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Prince Georg, 26, is the second son of Hereditary Prince Alois and Hereditary Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein.
When questioned about the photo, the Belgian royal palace’s spokesman said: “We are aware but are not commenting. We don’t even know if it’s a real photo or AI.”
The spokesman added that “this is a private matter.”
Respected Belgian royal reporter Wim Dehandschutter spoke to Hello magazine:
“Royal families are close in general, and Belgians and Liechtensteiners know each other well; there are branches. Their parents are colleagues, friends, in some way family. Elisabeth and Georg are believed to have known each other since childhood.”
Prince Georg studied at the University of St Gallen and the ESCP Business School. He currently lives and works in New York City. He is a Growth Manager in Strategic Initiatives/Private Equity with Guidewheel, which is “on a mission to empower all the world’s factories to reach sustainable peak performance.”
The prince is third in line to the Liechtenstein throne after his father, Hereditary Prince Alois, and his older brother, Prince Johann Wenzel.
Hereditary Prince Alois’ private secretary released a statement to the media: “This photograph does not show HSH Prince Georg of Liechtenstein; it is a fake created with the help of artificial intelligence .”
The Royal. Monarchies’ Instagram account posted the photo, which caught the attention of royal fans and the press, especially the European press, which soon picked up on it.
The person behind the account wrote: “I’ve had similar photos for a long time, and if I’m posting it now, it’s because I’ve seen it in many places.
We know that both currently live in the US and have known each other since childhood. They share family and vacations.
Their parents are friends and they grew up together.”
For at least a year, Prince Georg was in a relationship with Princess Nives von der Leyen. She confirmed the relationship when she posted photos on TikTok of herself and Georg together. Their relationship ended some time ago, but she and her older sister, Cecilia, attended the wedding of Georg’s sister, Princess Marie Caroline.
If we let our imaginations run wild, and the story turns out to be true, a marriage between Princess Elisabeth and Prince Georg would be the first between two members of reigning royal houses since 1982, when Georg’s great-uncle, Prince Nikolaus, married Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg.
The Liechtenstein princely family is zealously private. The Liechtensteiner Vaterland, the country’s only daily newspaper, publishes no private information about the Princely family.
It seems curious to me that the Belgian palace was unsure if the photo was real or not. The Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein’s spokesman believes the image was generated by AI.
Queen Mathilde was in New York City, where she addressed the UN General Assembly during its commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on gender equality.
Before going to the UN, the queen visited her daughter in Boston.
all three photos @Max Bueno
Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein was also at the UN today. He met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This evening, a friend of mine sent me a report he ran on the photo. He used Decopy AI, a program that can identify whether the image is human-generated or AI-generated.
The Duchess of Brabant’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel, may have had the last word with a post on his Instagram account. This translates to “Respect privacy. Show empathy. It’s not that complicated!”
