Seine Taufpaten sind Kronprinzessin Mary von Dänemark, Ann-Kathrin Johannsmann und Gustav Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg[4].
That for me is dressage.”
Back to News listingNathalie Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, vollständiger Name Nathalie Xenia Margareta Benedikte Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* 2. Nathalie was part of the national team at the last two Olympic Games (Beijing and London), winning a team bronze in 2008 and finishing 12th individually in London 2012.
In 2011 she married Alexander Johannsmann whom she met through her involvement in equestrianism, as he is a horse breeder from Germany.
After four years, during which she won the bronze medal at the European Championship with the Danish team, she had to change coaches as Kyrklund moved to England. I ride in the morning and take care of my kids in the afternoon.”
Unsurprisingly, her focus this year is very much on her sport. Juni 2011 in der evangelischen Kirche von Bad Berleburg[2].
Their divorce was announced in 2022.
Happy 50th Birthday to Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg! The packed audience also been honoured by the presence of a Danish Princess who has come here to compete in the CDI5* Dressage competition. Ihre Großeltern mütterlicherseits sind der dänische König Friedrich IX.
und Prinzessin Ingrid von Schweden. The Olympic medalist and niece of two Queens served as the Coach of the Danish National Dressage Team.
The youngest daughter of Princess Benedikte of Denmark and Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Princess Nathalie is the younger sister of the Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and grew up at Schloss Berleburg in Bad Berleburg.
After training at the Swedish stud Flyinge with Kyra Kyrklund, a former world champion in dressage, and Klaus Balkenhol, the coach of the German dressage team, Princess Nathalie won the bronze medal at the European Championship with the Danish team, and was a member of the Danish dressage team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she got a bronze medal.
1996 nahm Nathalie auch die dänische Staatsangehörigkeit an.
Bereits in frühester Kindheit entdeckte sie ihre Liebe zu Pferden und zum Reitsport. Ihre Erfolge begannen mit der Teilnahme der dänischen Mannschaft an der Europameisterschaft für junge Reiter, die sie mit der Bronzemedaille abschloss. Juli 2010 geboren.[3] Er wurde am 26.
I had to learn to regulate that temperament.”
Equestrianism, combined with family duties, add up to a full-time job for Nathalie, and she rides six horses a day. She’s not an Olympic horse though - I’m a very realistic person.”
With this realism and grounded attitude, Nathalie maintains that the Rio Olympics are definitely not on her agenda, but she lists the Tokyo World Championships next year as a possibility.
Princess Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is the granddaughter of King Frederick of Denmark, the niece of both Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece as well as a niece of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Yet, despite her regal lineage Princess Nathalie insists on competing without her title, instead riding under the name Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.
“I plan to do some more CDI (international) shows and try to keep up this harmony that I really have in her. She teamed up with Klaus Balkenhol, coach of the German dressage team.
In addition to riding she also breeds horses, as does her mother. “When you have educated a horse and the horse has finally got that idea of a new movement and it’s made that click.
Mai1975 in Kopenhagen), ist eine deutsch-dänische Dressurreiterin.
Nathalie ist die jüngste Tochter von Prinzessin Benedikte von Dänemark (* 1944) und Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (* 1934), ältester Sohn von Gustav Albrecht Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg und der schwedischen Gräfin Margareta Fouché d’Otrante. Januar 2010
Sie wuchs zusammen mit ihren Geschwistern auf Schloss Berleburg und in Dänemark auf. Die standesamtliche Hochzeit fand am 27. “It’s lovely. If the horse has a bad day and it appears to be at the competition, you have to try and make the best out of that situation. Princess Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is the granddaughter of King Frederick of Denmark, the niece of both Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece as well as a niece of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
It is not just Middle Eastern royalty that has been greeted through the gates of CHI AL SHAQAB 2016.
It’s a bit like ballet dancing or dancing in general. For the first time today, I felt I had her on my side. While she really enjoys competing at CHI AL SHAQAB, her true love lies in training young horses. When you get on her, she is a difficult little lady. Januar 2010 mit Alexander Johannsmann, dem Sohn von Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann, verlobt[1].
Juli 2010
Born 1975
When her mother, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, took her to the European Dressage Championships in Copenhagen in 1985, Princess Nathalie was ‘hooked’, she knew what she wanted to do.
“She was very difficult in her temperament. Später wechselte sie in die Ausbildung des damaligen Cheftrainers der deutschen Dressurmannschaft und späteren Trainers der US-amerikanischen Dressurmannschaft, Klaus Balkenhol. Dezember in der Kapelle von Schloss Berleburg auf den Namen Konstantin Gustav Heinrich Richard getauft.
Dressage has to look nice, where you think the rider is not doing anything and the horse is dancing. “When I started her I did not think she would make a Grand Prix horse,” she recalls. She is keen to present herself not as a Princess but as a dressage rider, trainer and breeder of horses, and mother of two children. In 1994, Nathalie trained at Flyinge with Kyra Kyrklund where she stayed for four years, after spending time with Klaus Balkenhol, returned to Kyra, and her husband, Richard White.
Nathalie was reserve for the Danish team for Sydney and Athens, before winning team bronze at Beijing, on Digby, the horse that her mother bred.
In 1994 Princess Nathalie began training on the Swedish stud Flyinge with her trainer Kyra Kyrklund, former world champion in dressage.
It’s one week coming out of the European winter and the horses enjoy the warmth after quite a long winter,” she explains.
Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein lives in Castle Berleburg in Germany, and is an esteemed dressage rider and one of Denmark’s leading equestrian athletes, irrespective of her royal roots.