Talita von Furstenberg, Literal Princess, Thinks Americans "Don't Understand" Royalty

She may be widely known as a member of fashion royalty thanks to her stylish last name, but Talita von Furstenberg, granddaughter of iconic designer Diane, is also, quite literally, a royal. Just don't tell her American friends that.

In a recent interview with Hello!, the 21-year-old model and budding designer (she has her own line under her grandmother's label) explained that she dropped her "princess" title (inherited from dad, Prince Alexander von Furstenberg) growing up in the U.S. because "Americans don’t understand being a princess in the same way that [Europeans] do."

"In LA, where I grew up, if I said I was a princess people would freak out. I didn’t think I could claim that title for myself."

Truly humble, we think, of her to therefore go through life as just a regular heiress like anybody else (her mother, Alexandra, is the daughter of billionaire businessman Robert Warren Miller), so long as any Americans she met also didn't understand the German hierarchy of last names - von, which she of course didn't drop, is, after all, an indicator of nobility. 

But while Talita has opted to follow in the footsteps of Anne Hathaway, Queen of Secret Princesses, her cousin and BFF, Olympia, has no qualms about flaunting her royal status as the Princess of Greece and Denmark. She, too, grew up with an American mother (Alexandra's sister, Marie-Chantal - yes, they both married into separate royal families) and even attended college in New York, as a proud Her Royal Highness. Perhaps she thinks more highly of Americans' ability to control themselves in the presence of a princess, or maybe she just likes having "Greece" in her Instagram handle.

Title or no title, though, Talita definitely lives the part.

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