Prince Ludwig of Bavaria has been pictured in smiling snaps with his fiancée ahead of their upcoming Spring wedding at Theatiner Church in Munich.
The royal, 40, and Oxford criminology student Sophie-Alexandra Evekink, 32, announced their engagement last summer.
New images show the besotted couple, who will tie the knot in May, looking loved-up as they pose for photos in a sunny park.
The Prince’s future wife donned a forest green turtleneck teamed with matching tailored culottes.
She was effortlessly elegant in a brown suede jacket, which belted at the waist for a cinched silhouette.
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria has been pictured in smiling snaps with his fiancée ahead of their upcoming Spring wedding at Theatiner Church in Munich
The Dutch and Canadian national kept her accessories minimal with a necklace and pearl earrings, wearing her chestnut tresses in waves, styled as a half-up-half-down look.
Tan heeled boots and a spot of dewy make-up finished the look off as she grinned while holding hands with her fiancé.
Elsewhere Ludwig looked sophisticated in khaki corduroys and a matching tweed blazer.
He wore a chic brown jumper over a striped button-up, tying the ensemble together with black leather shoes.
Another photographed showed the couple against the backdrop of a canal. Sophie showed off her emerald engagement ring, wearing a chic white blouse and plaid-print skirt, as she held onto her future husband.
Meanwhile Ludwig changed out his blazer for a lighter, linen jacket and sported a burgundy tie.
Ludwig is the eldest son of Prince Luitpold and the great-great grandson of Bavaria’s last King Ludwig III, while Sophie was born in Singapore to a Dutch-Canadian family.
The royal, 40, and Oxford criminology student Sophie-Alexandra Evekink, 32, announced their engagement last summer
New images show the besotted couple, who will tie the knot in May, looking loved-up as they pose for photos in a sunny park
Rumours started mounting that the pair were set to marry after she was spotted wearing a large emerald ring on her engagement finger at a wedding the couple attended last year.
Speaking to Germany‘s Bild newspaper, Prince Luitpold said he hoped the couple would ‘start a family soon’, adding: ‘Ludwig made a good choice. My future daughter-in-law is a very intelligent and educated woman.’
News of their engagement was shared by Office of the Bavarian Royal House alongside two pictures of the couple in which they can be seen posing in traditional outfits.
Prince Ludwig, whose parents are Prince Luitpold and Princess Beatrix, is the eldest of five siblings.
He spent much of his childhood at Schloss Kaltenberg, and attended the Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium St. Ottilien in Eresing.
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria announced his engagement to Oxford criminology student Sophie-Alexandra Evekink last year
As an 18-year-old, he founded his own IT company before he went on to study law in Göttingen, where he focused on human rights.
Since 2011, he has also shown a great interest in East Africa and specifically Kenya.
In 2015, he founded Startup Lions, which is described online as a ‘digital empowerment program, providing opportunities to learn, earn and innovate for young adults in rural Kenya.’
He now serves as CEO of the company, and spends ten months of the year in East Africa and two months in Bavaria.
While in the country, the royal is also already very involved in his family and regularly accompanies his father to public events.
It is not known how or when Prince Ludwig met his future wife Sophie, who also has a high powered career of her own.
She is the daughter of Dorus Evekink, who works as a lecturer at Maastricht School of Business.
The student, who has dual Dutch/Canadian citizen, has a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and East European Studies from University College London (UCL) and a Masters in Science from the University of Oxford.
Speaking to Germany’s Bild newspaper, Prince Luitpold said he hoped the couple would ‘start a family soon’
She is currently working towards a PhD at University of Oxford which focuses on justice for victims of conflict-related sexual violence.
She previously worked for seven years in New York at the United Nations in various roles.
According to an online biography of the future royal, Sophie ‘has a keen interest in violence prevention and women’s human rights, themes on which she has conducted research in the Middle East and Caucasus, as well as a passion for efforts which help build global consensus and bridge voices of the Global North and South.
‘She has previously also written on terrorism and radicalisation, and human trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe.’
It is understood Prince Ludwig proposed to Sophie in Berchtesgaden and it is currently unknown where the couple will go on to live.
