Casper Van Dien

Every time I see the "Casper Matress" thread, I think that it's about about a guy named Casper. It isn't a common name, but one Casper I do know of is Van Dien, who is forever immortalized as Johnny Rico, opposite Denise Richards and Dina Meyer in the craptastic (but emphasis on the 'tastic') film Starship Troopers - a movie that I must watch anytime it is on.




But what I found most interesting on his page is that he has been married to Catherine Oxenberg since 1999. You may recall her as the hot blonde Amanda Carrington in the 80s tv drama Dynasty.



More interestingly, she is the daughter of the Princess of the former Yugoslavia - and by the web of European monarchy, she is supposedly 1375th in line for the throne of England:

She is the eldest daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia (born 1936) and her first husband Howard Oxenberg (1919–2010), a Jewish dress manufacturer and close friend of the Kennedy family. Princess Elizabeth is the only daughter of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. Elizabeth is a first cousin of the current Duke of Kent and also a second cousin of Queen Sofía of Spain and Charles, Prince of Wales, making Catherine a third cousin of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Catherine is also a great-great-great-granddaughter of Karađorđe, who started the First Serbian Uprising against the Turks in 1804.

Catherine Oxenberg - Polyvore

She also went to Harvard (in the same class as Conan O'Brien). And in looking at all of this, I realized that Casper has got to be quite a bit younger than she is - and, indeed, she is now 53 and he is 46. What a cougar!! By her pedigree, I suspect that she is quite intelligent, while he always struck me as an airhead (after all, he did attend Florida State).

So, what do you think of Starship Troopers? Dynasty? Is Catherine Oxenberg a royal cougar? Is Casper Van Dien dumb?