Princess Mary’s nephew, Count Nikolai of Denmark, has been spotted in Sydney as he prepares to start a new chapter of his life in Australia, after his grandmother stripped him of his royal title of Her Royal Highness.

On Saturday, 23-year-old Nikolai was seen going out for morning coffee with a sportsman friend in the port city.

In tan slacks and a leather jacket over a blue knit jumper, the Danish royals looked stylish.

Nikolai seemed to be adjusting well to the laid back Australian lifestyle as he laughed with his friend.

The count has traveled to Australia to study an exchange semester at the Technological University of Sydney, accompanied by his glamorous girlfriend, the designer Benedikte Thoustrup.

The couple lives together in Copenhagen, but moved to Sydney to study from August 1 to November 30.

Count Nikolai de Monpezat, 23 (pictured right), has moved to Australia and was seen heading out for morning coffee with a friend in Sydney on Saturday.

In tan slacks and a leather jacket over a blue knit jumper, the Danish royals looked stylish.

Nikolai, whose father is Prince Joachim of Denmark, is seventh in line to the Danish throne.

In March, Denmark’s Count Nikolai launched a new Instagram account to promote his modeling career after his grandmother, Queen Margrethe, stripped him of his ‘HRH’ status.

It was a tumultuous year for the Danish royal family after the monarch controversially wrested the title from Prince Joachim’s eldest son, as well as wresting the titles of prince and princess from his younger children Athena, 11, Prince Felix, 20. , and Prince Henrik. 13

Nikolai, whose father is Prince Joachim of Denmark, is seventh in line to the Danish throne.

The handsome model enjoyed a coffee from the local cafe while taking in the sights of Sydney.

The count has traveled to Australia to study exchange at the University of Technology Sydney for a semester.

Nikolai seemed to be adjusting well to the laid back Australian lifestyle as he laughed with his friend.

Nikolai will study alongside his glamorous designer girlfriend, Benedikte Thoustrup (pictured)

They are now Earls and Countesses and known as Their Excellencies, and in January of this year the Danish Royal Family updated their website to show the new status.

The Queen insisted that the move will be “good for them in their future” and will allow the children, who have maintained their positions in the line of succession, “to shape their own lives without being constrained by special considerations and duties.” that a formal implies affiliation with the Danish royal family.

Following his grandmother’s move to strip him and his siblings of their titles ‘for their own good’, Count Nikolai said he was saddened, shocked and confused.

The Count has carved out a successful career as a model, previously walking the runway for Dior and Burberry.

Pictured is the Tasmanian-born Maria, Crown Princess of Denmark, who is married to Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark and is an aunt to young Nikolai.

Count Nikolai of Denmark is pictured walking in the Burberry show at London Fashion Week in 2018. In March, he launched a new Instagram account to promote his modeling career after he was dispossessed by his grandmother, Queen Margrethe of their ‘HRH’ status.

‘All my family and I are of course very sad. We are, as my parents have also said, shocked by this decision and how quickly it really has gone,” he told the Danish newspaper Extrabladet.

“I am very confused why it has to happen like this,” he told reporters from outside the Copenhagen apartment where he lives with his girlfriend.

Countess Alexandra, mother of Count Nikolai and Count Felix, was also “very saddened” and “shocked” by the decision.

“She can’t believe why and why now, because there is no good reason,” Helle von Wildenrath Løvgreen, Countess Alexandra’s press secretary, told CNN.

Regardless, they would lose their titles when they got married one day.

Following his grandmother’s move to strip him and his brothers of their titles ‘for their own good’, Nikolai said he was saddened, shocked and confused.

‘His sons are young men, so perhaps they could get married in the near future, why shouldn’t he wait until that day for the titles to disappear on a happy day?’

Prince Joachim told Ekstra Bladet that his children had been “hurt” by the decision, stating that he had only been given a few days to break the news to them before the announcement was made public.

Prince Joachim, brother of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, is now married to Princess Mary of Denmark.