Nicholas Bagrationi Nikopoulos was born on 4 April 1997 as the son of the missing Princess Sophia and her husband Alexander Nikopoulos. Princess Sophia had left Rome against the wishes of her parents and never returned, instead deciding to renounce her former life as princess and heiress apparent. However in 2006, Sophia's father, the emperor fell gravely ill and she decided to take her family with her to Rome. Emperor Emmanuel II was happy to see his daughter and reinstated her as the heiress apparent. Upon his death in 2007, Sophia ascended the throne of the Roman Empire. Nicholas was not the heir apparent, his older sister Helena was, this did not seem to bother him. Nicholas was educated at a normal school with his sister, unlike their mother who was forced to attend the Imperial Acade