Philip Niarchos - Marriage and Family

Marriage and Family

In 1984, Niarchos married Victoria Christina Guinness (b. 30 January 1960), daughter of Patrick Benjamin Guinness (of the non-aristocratic branch of the renowned brewery family) and Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Hedringen (1936-2012). Niarchos and Guinness have two sons and two daughters.

  • Stavros Niarchos Jr. (b. 17 April 1985)
  • Eugenie Niarchos (b. 15 July 1986), also sometimes referred to as Eugenia
  • Theodorakis (b. 3 April 1991)
  • Electra (b. 5 July 1995)

Niarchos was a first cousin of the late heiress Christina Onassis whose mother Athina Livanos (1929–1974) was a younger sister of his own mother and later became his father's last wife. Therefore, he is a second cousin of Athina Onassis de Miranda.

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