Who is Mie Sofia Elers? She’s dating Denmark’s Count Felix of Monpezat, but the Chilean-Danish actress has faced online abuse about her relationship with ‘Denmark’s most eligible bachelor’

Nov 16 , 2024

Mie Sofia Elers is an aspiring actress and the girlfriend of Denmark’s Count Felix of Monpezat. Photo: IMDB

After going public with her royal beau, Elers – along with her friends and family – faced such extensive harassment on social media platforms that she filed a complaint with the Danish police

Denmark has had a flurry of headline-making news events this year. They began with the coronation of King Frederik X – after the abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II – and a fire at Copenhagen’s 17th-century stock exchange building. They continued more recently with a summer of sporting woes, an assault on the Danish prime minister and the wedding of Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, also in Copenhagen.

Amid all that, the Scandinavian country quietly announced a new royal romance. In February, a royal representative confirmed that Count Felix of Monpezat, the dashing 22-year-old nephew of King Frederik, had found himself a girlfriend in Chilean-Danish actress Mie Sofia Elers.

But it’s not all been plain sailing for Felix’s new flame. Elers opened up about the intense online hatred she’s faced since the relationship became public. Trolls have harassed and bombarded her with violent threats, making this royal romance something less than a fairy tale.

Count Felix of Monpezat is the nephew of King Frederik X and Queen Mary (above, with their four children) and a cousin of the princes and princesses. Photo: Getty Images

Felix, Prince Joachim’s younger son, was seen visiting Mie and her brother Mathias in Madrid, where she is studying. Despite being stripped of his title of prince last year by Queen Margrethe, supposedly to protect him from the pressures of royalty, Felix is living his best life in Copenhagen, studying International Shipping and Trade at Copenhagen Business School, while also making waves in the modelling world with campaigns for jeweller Georg Jensen.

So who is Mie Sofia Elers? Here’s everything we know about the royal girlfriend.

Mie Sofia Elers is a real third-culture kid

Mie Sofia Elers, girlfriend of Denmark’s Count Felix of Monpezat, is of Chilean and Danish descent. Photo: IMDB

Elers, 23, was born in 2000 in Pucón, Chile. With a Chilean mother and Danish father, she grew up speaking Spanish, Danish and English fluently.

She’s an actress

Mie Sofia Elers is an aspiring actress. Photo: IMDB

Elers fell in love with acting at an early age and got her start in theatre. She refined her craft under renowned Chilean coach and casting director Paula Leoncini before making her way to the Copenhagen Film and Theatre School to take a one-year international diploma. She then moved to Madrid to study at the prestigious Central de Cine acting academy, from which she graduated with a two-year diploma and a mastery of the Michael Chekhov, physical-movement acting technique.