Frederik van Pallandt

Van Pallandt was born in Copenhagen, the son of Floris Carsilius Anne, Baron van Pallandt,[1] a former Ambassador for the Netherlands to Denmark and South Africa, [2] and Dane Else Dagmar Hanina, Komtesse Blücher af Altona.

[citation needed] His uncle, Egbert Carl Antony, Baron van Pallandt (changed to Palland for political reasons) emigrated to South Africa.

He and his first wife, Nina van Pallandt, created a sensation first in Denmark and then elsewhere in Europe with music rooted in folk, ethnic, and calypso styles and, at first, their plain stage attire.

[4] Van Pallandt had a daughter, born out of wedlock, with Danish model Dorthe Holm Jensen of London: Beatrice van Pallandt (born 30 September 1967), who married in June 1990 Jeffrey-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, a management consultant in London,[5] and who had a long term affair with Prince Karim Aga Khan.

[9][10][11] On 15 May 1994, both he and his Filipina girlfriend Susannah were shot dead in a hut at Puerto Galera in the Philippines.