Background
Van Pallandt was born in Copenhagen, the son of a former Ambassador for the Netherlands to Denmark and Dane Else Dagmar Hanina Blücher, Countess of Altona.
Van Pallandt was born in Copenhagen, the son of a former Ambassador for the Netherlands to Denmark and Dane Else Dagmar Hanina Blücher, Countess of Altona.
Their recordings were released in the United States on the Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco, but did not enjoy the same success as they had enjoyed in Europe. They may have been ahead of the music curve which saw folk music enjoy a revival in the United States in the early 1960s. The couple had three children: Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (10 June 1961 – 13 October 2006), Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Baroness van Pallandt (born 9 August 1963), and Ana Maria Else, Baroness van Pallandt (born 30 October 1965) and continued their musical careers until they parted in 1969, eventually divorcing in 1975.
The following year, on 10 May, van Pallandt married María Jesus de Los Rios y Coello de Portugal.
Together, they had one child – Daniel Tilopa, Baron van Pallandt, who was born 12 May 1977. In 1979, van Pallandt bought Burke"s Peerage from The Holdway Group.
According to his first wife"s memoir, van Pallandt was an avid sailor, and settled in the Philippines in the 1990s. He become involved with an Australian syndicate involved in the trafficking of cannabis, using his yacht the Tiaping to transport the shipments.
On May 15, 1994, both he and his Filipina girlfriend Susannah were shot dead in a hut at Puerto Galera in the Philippines.
The murderer is believed to have been another member of the syndicate.