Princess Alexandra of Leiningen announces engagement to Everett Kohl
Princess Alexandra of Leiningen is engaged to Everett Kohl.
She announced the news herself on her personal Instagram account on 13 October. The announcement was built around a single photograph taken in Whistler, Canada. It shows Princess Alexandra holding Kohl's arm and lifting her hand so her engagement ring is clearly visible. HELLO!
The proposal took place beside a lake in Whistler. ¡HOLA! Kohl, described as Princess Alexandra's long-term partner, asked her there before the couple shared the outdoor photograph. Tatler The Instagram post dated 13 October was then picked up by royalty outlets on 14, 15 and 16 October, which is how the lakeside detail and the wider family background became public.
Princess Alexandra is the youngest daughter of Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen and Deborah Cully. For readers who have not come across the Leiningen name before, those two names are the simplest place to start. They identify her family immediately, without needing a family tree. The phrasing youngest daughter tells its own story about her place in that family.
Through her father's line she is Queen Victoria's great-great-great-great-granddaughter. That is five generations on from Victoria. The line runs through Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second eldest son. She is also described as a scion of the Bulgarian royal family, scion being the traditional word for a descendant of a notable family. That description places her within two different European royal histories at once.
She graduated from Queen's University in 2020. That was six years before the October 2026 announcement. That university background and a low public profile mean many readers will be meeting her for the first time with this engagement news. The Instagram post put the announcement in her own hands, with followers seeing the photograph and the ring directly.
What makes this stand out is that simplicity. A personal account rather than a formal office. An outdoor moment rather than a staged portrait. A close-up that lets followers see the ring for themselves and share in a lakeside proposal in Canada.
