Only six days after his brother Grichka Bogdanoff, Igor Bogdanoff in turn breathes his last, on January 3, 2022, from the consequences of Covid-19. The funeral of the two inseparable brothers took place at the same time in the church of the Madeleine, on January 10, 2023. They were then buried two days later in the cemetery of Saint-Lary, in the Gers, commune of their birth. . Among those present to pay their last respects were Amelie of Bourbon-Parma, the former wife of Igor Bogdanoff. They had been married between 2009 and 2018 and had given birth to two boys. In the columns of GalaWednesday, July 5, 2023, she explained how difficult the death of her ex-husband had been to accept. “Even though we had been divorced since 2018, our ties had remained very strong”she said at first.
Igor Bogdanoff’s ex-wife needed to change country to turn the page
“His disappearance was brutal, dramatic. You have to learn to live with it…” To come to grips with the pain she felt after the death of her sons’ father, she found refuge in writing. She also made the decision to settle very far from France, with her boys, Alexandre and Constantin. Today, all three of them find new life in Tunisia. “I took a sabbatical year. After the death of their father, my children needed me so much”said the mother of the family who did not hesitate for a single second to stop everything to make herself available for her children. “I wanted to be available for them, to take off and finish this book that I have carried with me for more than eleven years.” If it is in Tunisia that Amélie de Bourbon-Parme and her two children have put down their suitcases, it is because the ex-wife of Igor Bogdanoff has rebuilt her life for a few years with a man who settled in this country. “There are wonderful beings who help you turn the pages”she concluded confident for her future.