The multi-millionaire owner of the Love Island villa has been revealed as the husband of a blue-blood relation of the Queen – who has her own distant claim to the British throne.
Secrecy has shrouded the identity of the mystery German rumoured to own the luxury Majorcan property where the hit ITV2 dating series is filmed.
Today it can be revealed to be Nikolaus Broschek, the wealthy husband of Princess Ingeborg Schleswig-Holstein, a 4th-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
The businessman owns the villa near the small town of Sant Llorenc des Cardassar in eastern Majorca through a Spanish company which rents it out to ITV every year.
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Mr Broschek, 77, married into nobility in May 1991 in the German city of Hamburg.
The polo-loving couple have a handsome aristocratic son called Alexis, 23, who is studying at the London School of Economics – and is believed to have met Princes William and Harry.
Ingeborg, 63, worked as Andy Warhol’s assistant in the eighties when she was photographed alongside him for a print which went on to make thousands of pounds for the famous artist’s foundation at a 2012 US auction.
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Today she is a well-established artist in her own right who has exhibited all over the world.
Members of the royal house her brother Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein heads, includes the reigning monarchs of Denmark and Norway.
This year’s batch of Love Island stars, who have helped secure ITV2 biggest-ever audience this year by breaking the six million mark, are thought to have been kept in the dark about the sunshine villa’s royal connection.
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Mr Broschek – full name Kurt Nikolaus Albert Broschek – is listed as the sole director of Casas Rusticas e Historicas de Mallorca, the Palma-based company which owns the Love Island villa and began operating nearly two decades ago.
He is also a director of another Majorcan property firm.
The picturesque main property was recently refurbished for this year’s show, which premiered on June 3 and runs until the end of this month.
Casa Amor, the second villa a short walk from the main property that sees contestants get led away to be tempted by a new group of islanders, has a different owner.
It was recently revealed four-bedroom hideaway Casa Amor, featuring two balconies, two roof terraces and a master suite with an open-plan bathroom, was up for sale for £2.5 million.
The town near where the main villa and second property are was hit by devastating floods last October.
The 13 people killed included Brits Antony Green, 77, and his wife Delia, 75, who were in a taxi swept away by floodwater.
British expat David Robinson’s son Arthur, six, and his Majorcan-born wife Joana Lliteras also lost their life.
Wimbledon semi-finalist Rafa Nadal was among those who helped with the clean-up.
