Days before the atrocities, Mr Povlsen's eldest daughter Alma shared a poignant photo of her three siblings to Instagram enjoying their time in the South Asian state.
The family are close friends with Denmark's Prince Frederik and Princess Mary, with Mr Povlsen and wife Anne attending Prince Fred's 50th birthday celebration last year.
Five Britons including a Singapore-based lawyer and her two children as well as a TV chef and her daughter lost their lives in the attacks.
Celebrity chef Shantha Mayadume and daughter Nisanga were enjoying their breakfast at the five-star Shangri-La hotel in Colombo when a suicide bomber detonated his vest inside the restaurant.
The manager of another luxury resort, the Cinnamon Grand, told reporters an terrorist had checked in under a false name and waited calmly in the queue for the breakfast buffet before blowing himself up.
Two Australian nationals were also among the dead, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirming the pair were related and living in Sri Lanka News.com.au reports.
In the midst of the tragedy, Sri Lankan officials have released the first CCTV images of the suspected suicide bombers.
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Eight catastrophic explosions ripped through prominent churches, tourist landmarks and five-star luxury resorts in the deadliest violence the country has seen since an ethno-religiously charged civil war ended ten years ago.
Hours after the blasts, a massive six-foot pipe bomb was discovered at Sri Lanka's main airport in the capital Colombo.
The device - described as a PVC pipe containing explosives - was found by Air Force personnel and safely destroyed in a controlled area, according to the Sri Lankan Sunday Times.
Sri Lankan police also said they had found 87 bomb detonators at a bus station in Colombo, 12 scattered on the ground and another 75 in a garbage dump nearby, Al Jazeera reports.
Last week, the Sri Lankan government issued a public safety warning about a possible Islamist attack on prominent churches, but no group has yet claimed responsibility.
Sri Lanka's Defence Ministry implemented a curfew and imposed a nationwide social media ban in the wake of the carnage which is still in force.
President Maithripala Sirisena declared a national emergency and extended sweeping war-time powers to the military giving them the power to arrest and detain suspects, his office said.