The office of the former Royal Family of Greece announced the birth of a royal baby and managed not to use one royal title. “Philip De Gres and his wife, Nina, announce with great joy the birth of their first child, Kimon Thomas Constantinou, on July 27, 2026 in the United States of America.” No prince. No princess. A surname that took a court ruling to keep.
That is the story, and most of the coverage sailed straight past it to the word “surrogate”.
Who exactly had a baby?
Philippos was born on 26 April 1986 at St Mary’s Hospital in London, the youngest of the five children of Constantine II and Anne-Marie, the last King and Queen of Greece. He is a godson of Diana, Princess of Wales. He was 40 when his son arrived.
Nina, born Nina Nastassja Flohr in St. Moritz on 22 January 1987, was 39. She founded the Kisawa Sanctuary in Mozambique and the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies, and was previously creative director of VistaJet, the private jet company founded by her father, Thomas Flohr. Her mother, Katharina Konečný, is a former creative director of Fabergé and a former editor-in-chief of Russian Vogue.
They first appeared together in public in 2018, at the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank. He proposed on Ithaca in the summer of 2020. They then married three times: a civil ceremony in St. Moritz on 12 December 2020 attended by nobody but their two fathers, thanks to Covid; a second low-key wedding in Cambridge the following May, hosted by the Vogue writer Alice Naylor-Leyland and her husband, Tom; and a religious service at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens in October 2021, the bride in Chanel and her mother-in-law’s Antique Corsage Tiara, with Queen Sofía of Spain, Princess Beatrice and Princess Benedikte of Denmark in the pews.
Two fathers in a Swiss registry office, then half of Europe’s remaining royalty in Athens. The order tells you something.
What did the announcement actually say?
Very little, on purpose. The child was born on 27 July 2026. The birth was made public on 1 September 2026. The couple had never announced a pregnancy, because there was not one to announce.
The statement continued: “Kimon was born via surrogacy. Nina and Philip express their sincere gratitude to the surrogate mother and her family, who contributed to making the arrival of their son possible.”
Five weeks between the birth and the world hearing about it.
Why does nobody know which American state?
Because the family did not say, and nothing verified has filled the gap. The statement names no agency, no clinic, no state and no surrogate. Surrogacy law in the United States varies substantially by jurisdiction, which is precisely why the choice of state would be interesting, and precisely why guessing at it is worthless.
DDW’s own working hook for this story was California. No primary source or major outlet supports it. What is on the record is “the United States of America” and a date.
So the sum of public knowledge is this: a birthday, a country, a first name and a thank-you. Everything else that the internet is currently asking about was withheld by people who have had five decades of practice at withholding things.
What do the child’s names actually mean?
Kimon Thomas Constantinou. Yahoo reported that Thomas is a tribute to Nina’s father, Thomas Flohr, and that Constantinou appears to honour Philippos’s late father, Constantine II, the last king of Greece, who died on 10 January 2023.
There is a wrinkle. Outlets differ on the third name: Hello! reported “Constantinou”, while Yahoo and other wires carried “Konstantinos”. Both cite the same royal-office statement. This is translation variance, not a correction waiting to happen.
Either way, the naming maths is unusually legible. One deposed monarchy, one private aviation fortune, one baby carrying both.
Will Kimon be a prince?
Nobody has said, and the constitutional position makes it a live question rather than a formality. Greece abolished the monarchy in 1974. In December 2024, the former royal family regained Greek citizenship after fifty years, with ten members, including Constantine’s children and grandchildren, having applied. The condition was civilian: a declaration of loyalty to the republic and a surname. They chose De Grèce, which some leftwing politicians promptly objected to on the grounds that it amounts to a title of nobility, which the constitution does not permit.
In April 2026, Greece’s top court ended the dispute, covering Pavlos, Nikolaos, Philippos, Theodora and Alexia De Grèce, ruling the ministerial decision lawful and clearing the last significant obstacle to the citizenship and the surname.
That judgment is four months older than the baby. Whether a courtesy title attaches to him, and how that sits with the surname his father fought to keep, has not been addressed by the family. Royal-watching forums have raised the point, noting that Philippos himself is not enthusiastic about being called Prince; that discussion is unverified commentary rather than any statement of position.
Pavlos, Philippos’s eldest brother, became Head of the Royal House on their father’s death. Head of a house, not of a state.
Where does the money actually sit?
Not with the prince. No source documents any independent fortune or income for Philippos separate from his family or his wife’s family. Nina’s personal net worth is not established in any primary filing either; the figures floating around secondary “net worth” sites are inferred from her father and are not worth repeating.
Thomas Flohr is the measurable one, and even he has been unmeasured for eight years. Forbes last valued him at US$2.3 billion in March 2018, after which he dropped off the billionaires list, with Vista privately held and unpriced since. Billionaires.Africa reported that he owns 84 per cent of Vista Global, the parent of VistaJet, citing Flohr confirming the stake to CNBC.
The same report, citing Bloomberg and people with knowledge of the matter, said Vista Global is weighing a European listing that could raise more than $1 billion and value the company above $10 billion. ACC Aviation put Vista’s net debt at roughly $4 billion in November 2025, financing a fleet the group owns outright rather than selling down to fractional buyers.
What does Nina Flohr run herself?
Kisawa Sanctuary, founded in 2017, spans 300 hectares with eleven bungalows, each with its own private beach, infinity pool and open-air deck. There is no public valuation for it, and she has not offered one. Alongside it sits the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies, which is the part of the project she talks about more.
A woman who spent years as creative director of a jet company now runs a place people fly to. The through-line is not subtle, and it is not accidental.
Kimon Thomas Constantinou carries a king and a jet fleet in his middle names. Only one of the two, according to Bloomberg, is weighing a listing above $10 billion.
