She calls herself the “modern baroness” on her TikTok account for a good reason: she holds the title of Baroness of Pürkel and, also, a strong desire to create content around her surname. Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg comes from an old, illustrious German aristocratic lineage and knows very well how to move in the most elitist circles. Hence, almost all of her content revolves around how to dress elegantly, be refined, and educated in the high culture that characterizes high society.
There’s nothing to it but to glance at Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg’s profile on TikTok: her horizon is all things exquisite, although she also dares to address matters relating to romantic life. In fact, what interests us most is what she has shared about how those who live among mansions and palaces flirt. Let’s say that, right now, Leonie lives in Madrid, where she is completing an MBA at IE Business School. And that she has a boyfriend who isn’t a prince, but is a Mexican heir.
Evidently, Leonie speaks several languages (English, German, Arabic, and Spanish, as far as we know), studied at a Swiss boarding school in music, art, and history, and is accustomed to mingling with diplomats, ambassadors, and aristocrats. In one of her videos she has admitted that her mother used Hermès scarves to tie her to a chair so that she would learn to maintain an upright posture while seated. That’s how tough life in high society can be.
Leonie was courted by a European prince
But let’s return to Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg’s romantic life, because the young baroness has precisely recounted on TikTok an episode with a European prince whose name she does not reveal, which says a lot about how the offspring of the aristocracy move. It seems that the modern baroness was courted by a royal but ended up blocking him. “It’s a pretty ridiculous story,” she acknowledged. In the end, Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg published two videos about her courtship experience with a European prince she met during a dinner with mutual friends.
“I don’t want to be canceled by my family and friends, remember that this is a very small circle [referring to the high aristocracy]. I’ll say enough to give you an idea, but without giving too many details,” resolved the baroness. “The truth is that at that dinner we got along very well. I confess that it was a point in his favor to be able to speak in several languages interchangeably, because I find it very difficult to express my true personality in just one language: I constantly mix English, Spanish and German,” she explained.
Leonie y su novio,: es mexicano y no pertenece a la aristocracia.
After that encounter they started texting each other. That said: he had already hinted that his family and Leonie’s were a good match, because both belonged to the small group of the 30 oldest families in Europe. “That means I belong to one of the families whose members can be accepted by a royal family,” the baroness clarified. “He insisted that I was part of the pool of girls fit to marry him. He also joked that I would certainly marry someone of superior class and so on.”
“The truth is I found it all a bit strange,” explains Leonie on her TikTok channel. “Soon after, I decided to travel to New York to visit my best friend, and that’s when he went crazy. Keep in mind we had only met once and hadn’t messaged much either. After all, I didn’t know him at all… Suddenly, he started behaving very rudely. He told me that I had probably traveled to New York to see other men, commoners, and that Americans were horrible people.”
Leonie had to block him everywhere
“My friend read his messages and it was clear: cancel him,” continues Leonie in her video. “Back in Germany, he sent me flowers, tried to call me and I had to block him on WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Instagram because he wouldn’t stop trying to contact me. In the end, I had to tell him outright that I wasn’t interested. He didn’t take it well. He told me that no one dared to say no to him and that he didn’t know who he was rejecting. I had to get a bit rude to make him respect my boundaries. I told him I didn’t care who he was.”
“When I moved to Madrid, in the first weeks after my arrival, he decided to come and try it in person,” continues Leonie. “He sent me a message saying that he was in Madrid, that he needed to see me, and that we should meet at a restaurant. Obviously I didn’t go. Weeks later, when he found out I was dating a Mexican guy, I received the most unpleasant and lengthy message I have ever read in my life.”
“In it he told me that my boyfriend and I didn’t have a future, that he could never give me what I needed and that I was marrying beneath my means. Soon after I learned that he was doing the same thing to other girls who are quite a bit younger than me. Moral of the story: princes can also be frogs.”
