Naked Playboy shoot, SIX engagements, soap role & bizarre Ikea job… the very un-royal life of ‘world’s hottest princess’
THE reality of stripping royals of their titles has been laid bare - they end up stripping off for Playboy magazine and appearing on reality shows.
Princess Xenia Florence Gabriela Sophie Iris of Saxony has become the first royal to pose naked for the magazine.
She is on the cover of the March edition of Germany’s Playboy, with just a white sheet barely concealing her modesty.
And it's not the first time she's raised eyebrows.
The 37-year-old great, who hails from a family with distant links to King Charles, has become a party princess who sings in nightclubs in revealing outfits and pole dances in bikini tops.
Xenia is the great, great granddaughter of the last King of Saxony - and despite Germany ceasing any financial support for its aristocracy over 100 years ago, she continues to milk her royal connection.
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She's appeared on countless reality shows, including the German version of I’m A Celebrity, a pop star contest, and even a BBC3 programme called Undercover Princesses in 2010, where she selected an Essex hairdresser to date from potential suitors.
Xenia reckons the last king of Saxony “would have definitely approved” of her showing off her boobs in Playboy.
She told the magazine she wished to celebrate her natural beauty, saying: "You don't have to conform to trends or have surgery on your body just to please someone.
"I have stretch marks, and I'm proud to show them."
Whether King Friedrich August III would really have approved we'll never know, but he did seem to be relaxed about the fate of Saxony’s royals.
At the end of World War I the German people decided they no longer wished to be ruled by the aristocrats that had started the conflict.
Friedrich was asked if he would abdicate peacefully, and he reportedly replied, "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better."
He had seven children, with the anti-Nazi Prince Ernst Heinrich’s son Prince Timo being Xenia’s grandfather.
They don’t have a palace or castle, and work to make ends meet.
Xenia's mother Iris has worked as a hairdresser in Dusseldorf and her father Theo is a farmer.
I have stretch marks, and I'm proud to show them
Princess Xenia
Xenia did not use her royal title at school, and when the other pupils discovered she was of noble birth she claimed it became a “curse”.
"Immediately the first girls asked me if I had a maid and the boys asked if I would marry them so they could become a prince,” she said.
Fortunately for Xenia her fellow citizens are obsessed with royalty, with the faces of British royals regularly beaming from magazine racks in Germany.
And while the country became a republic in 1919, its princes and princesses are celebrities.
I'm A Celeb stint
Xenia has made the most of her lineage.
Aged 18 she founded a band and appeared on a German TV show called Popstars.
A year later in 2005, Xenia was a contestant on Die Berg, where she lived in a castle, and by 2010 she was on BBC Three’s Undercover Princesses.
She posed as Gaby, not telling potential dates that she was a princess, and chose to date Essex stylist Elliot Rowley.
Sadly that relationship did not last, like so many for Xenia.
She has reportedly been engaged six times but has yet to make it down the aisle.
In 2010 she said: “I've actually been single since I was born. After a short time, everyone turned out to be bad guys.”
I've actually been single since I was born. After a short time, everyone turned out to be bad guys
Princess Xenia
Xenia, who has a seven year-old son, Taro, from her romance with a stuntman called Rajab Hassan.
In 2016 they won The Summer House of the Stars – Battle of the Celebrity Couples, and in the same year Xenia appeared on a dance show called Germany Dances.
Three years ago Xenia entered the jungle in Germany’s version of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, and was most recently on a reality show called B: Real.
Xenia has also tried to make it as a singer and can be found performing in nightclubs, alongside a dancer firing flames from close to her crotch.
Not so noble
Her Instagram page also features images of her in less than ladylike poses - including one perched on top of a toilet cistern.
Perhaps then it's not surprising that the House of Wettin attempted to distance themselves from the princess.
When she wrote a book called Xenia: The Life of a Princess in the 21st Century, and then posed in an Ikea advert next to the caption "sleep like a princess", one relative questioned her noble origins.
Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen said in 2012: "She is a nothing, she can't have a biography. This thing is a dreadful faux pas, a misfortune for the 1,000-year-old House of Wettin.”
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But it could be worse.
Prince Ernst August of Hanover was nicknamed the "piddling prince" after relieving himself on the Turkish pavilion at an expo in Germany in 2000.
