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Tatiana Santo Domingo is one of the world’s most famous heirs, but she has chosen to live a mostly discreet life, avoiding the spotlight and focusing on her sustainable fashion line. In November, the wife of Andrea Casiraghi celebrated her 41st birthday with her husband and their three children by her side, in their home in Switzerland, where they moved after 11 years living in London.
Tatiana Santo Domingo and Andrea Casiraghi at the Rose Ball in Monaco in 2022.
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The couple, who will mark their 11th year of marriage in February, live out of the spotlight in Saanen, a historic town of only 7,000, with alpine cabins dotting a landscape that looks like it is straight out of a Christmas movie. The Casiraghi–Santo Domingo family has lived for two years in a beautiful home with mountain views, just a 10-minute drive from Gstaad, one of the most exclusive ski resorts in the world.
Gstaad was where the couple married in 2014, in an event that included royalty and many of the biggest names in global business and fashion. In Switzerland, the couple can enjoy a certain anonymity and the quiet of a little town where their neighbors aren’t interested in the private life of their family. Santo Domingo spends as much time as she can with her three children, Alexandre, or Sasha, India, and Maximilian, although she travels frequently for work, including to India, in her role at Muzungu Sisters, the sustainable fashion company she founded with one of her best friends, Dana Alikhani. (An entrepreneurial streak runs in Santo Domingo’s family. She is the granddaughter of Julio Mario Santo Domingo, a Colombian businessman whose net worth was estimated at around $8.4 billion when he died in 2011, and the sister-in-law of Lauren Santo Domingo, who cofounded Moda Operandi.)
Alikhani and Santo Domingo share a passion for the snow and often enjoy skiing—both cross-country and downhill—on the Swiss peaks. “Happy birthday to my sister from another mister! Thank you for being YOU! Love you so so much and would be lost without you!” Alikhani wrote to her friend on her 41st birthday.
Family Life in the AlpsSanto Domingo’s husband is the son of Stefáno Casiraghi and Caroline of Monaco. He attended one of Switzerland’s most famous boarding schools, Collège Alpin Beau Soleil. While he was a student there, he met Aldo Comas, husband of the Spanish actor Macarena Gómez, who is now one of the best friends of Andrea’s younger brother, Pierre. The school’s alumni include many aristocrats and millionaires, among them Prince Félix of Luxembourg, Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, and actor-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Santo Domingo and Casiraghi first met when they were both teenagers, and they married in 2014 in Switzerland.
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Santo Domingo was born in New York and moved as a child to Geneva with her family, where she attended the International School of Geneva. Later, she went to boarding school at the Lycée Fontainebleau, near Paris. There she met Charlotte Casiraghi, who would one day become her sister-in-law.
An Early Riser Who Loves Jamón SerranoAs Santo Domingo told the newsletter “Air Mail,” she likes to go to bed early, no later than 10 p.m., and gets up early as well. Her first priority? Coffee. She then makes breakfast with her children before accompanying them to school. On the weekends she sleeps in a little later and then likes to make eggs Benedict for her family. For the couple an ideal date would consist of a movie and dinner at a local restaurant serving traditional food. Her favorite cocktail is a spicy margarita, paired with some jamón serrano.
The outdoors plays a special part in the lives of Santo Domingo and her family. They will often go hiking or skiing on weekends in the winter. They also like to entertain friends, preparing traditional dishes served at an enormous wooden dining table, with mountain views and a fire burning in the fireplace.
The Grimaldi family gathers together several times a year for different public events.
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The family’s quiet life in the Alps is interrupted occasionally when they have to fulfill royal duties in Monaco, such as attending the annual Rose Ball, which the couple never misses, and the National Day of Monaco, celebrated on November 19. These events bring the Grimaldi family together, with Prince Albert II and his wife, Charlene, Princess of Monaco, presiding over them. The couple are also regulars at the Monaco Grand Prix, where they can be seen with their children, who have already become Formula 1 fans.
Famous FriendsSanto Domingo has a tight group of lifelong friends that includes other heirs and leaders in the worlds of business and fashion. One of her closest friends is Margherita Missoni—fashion designer, model, socialite, and heir to the Missoni fashion house founded by her grandparents Ottavio Missoni and Rosita Missoni Jelmini. Santo Domingo and Missoni often travel together to Italy to enjoy both its art and cuisine. On a recent visit to Florence, they were spotted visiting landmarks like the Ponte Vecchio. They traveled there with Alexia Niedzielski, photographer and cofounder of the women’s footwear brand Fabrizio Viti.
Another of her close friends is Eugenie Niarchos, the granddaughter of the famous Greek shipowner and billionaire Stavros Niarchos, with whom she’s visited Greece on a few occasions. Niarchos’s birthday has provided an excuse for Santo Domingo’s group of girlfriends to gather, and among them are Dana Alikhani, Santo Domingo’s business partner and the daughter of Iranian businessman Hossein Alikhani; Electra Niarchos, Eugenie’s sister; Venetian aristocrat Bianca Brandolini, the daughter of Princess Georgina de Faucigny-Lucinge and Italian count Tiberto Ruy Brandolini d’Adda; model Camille Rowe; and Lebanese jeweler Noor Fares.
This past January, Santo Domingo and Casiraghi traveled to Rio de Janeiro for a special event, the wedding of their friends Alix Duvernoy and Antonio Echavarria, where they met designer Cósima Ramírez, daughter of designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada. The couple could be spotted exploring the city and dancing to the beats of samba, maracatu, and axé along with friends like Bianca Brandolini, DJ Mimo El Hassani, and Garrett Moore, known for organizing spectacular immersive parties.
This article was originally published by Vanity Fair España. It was translated by John Newton.
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