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List Of Princesses Of Greece
This is a list of Greek princesses from the accession of George I of Greece, George I to the throne of the Kingdom of Greece in 1863. Individuals holding the title of princess would usually also be styled "Royal Highness, Her Royal Highness" (HRH), except in the case of the two daughters of Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Prince Michael, who hold no style, and only bare the title of Princess of Greece. List of Greek princesses since 1863 {{Greek princesses Greek princesses, House of Glücksburg (Greece), Princesses Lists of Greek people, Princesses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George I Of Greece
George I ( Greek: Γεώργιος Α΄, ''Geórgios I''; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was King of Greece from 30 March 1863 until his assassination in 1913. Originally a Danish prince, he was born in Copenhagen, and seemed destined for a career in the Royal Danish Navy. He was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the Greek National Assembly, which had deposed the unpopular Otto. His nomination was both suggested and supported by the Great Powers: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire and the Russian Empire. He married Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia in 1867, and became the first monarch of a new Greek dynasty. Two of his sisters, Alexandra and Dagmar, married into the British and Russian royal families. Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexander III of Russia were his brothers-in-law, and George V of the United Kingdom, Christian X of Denmark, Haakon VII of Norway, and Nicholas II of Russia were his nephew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Elizabeth Of Greece And Denmark
Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark (; 24 May 1904 – 11 January 1955) was the middle daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. Early life Princess Elizabeth was born on 24 May 1904 at the Tatoi Palace just north of Athens, Greece, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George I. She was the second daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, and his wife Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. Her father was the third son of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece, while her mother was the only daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Her father was a grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark, while her mother was a granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.McNaughton, C. Arnold. "The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy". 3 volumes. London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973, Princess Elizabeth had two sisters, an older sister Princess Olga and a younger sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke Of Hesse
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Princess Cecilie Of Greece And Denmark
Princess is a regal rank and the feminine equivalent of prince (from Latin ''princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a king or prince. Princess as a substantive title Some princesses are reigning monarchs of principalities. There have been fewer instances of reigning princesses than reigning princes, as most principalities excluded women from inheriting the throne. Examples of princesses regnant have included Constance of Antioch, princess regnant of Antioch in the 12th century. Since the President of France, an office for which women are eligible, is ''ex-officio'' a Co-Prince of Andorra, then Andorra could theoretically be jointly ruled by a princess. Princess as a courtesy title Descendants of monarchs For many centuries, the title "princess" was not regularly used for a monarch's daughter, who, in English, might simply be called "Lady". Old English had no female equivalent of "prince" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimundo, 2nd Duke Of Castel Duino
Raimondo, Prince della Torre e Tasso, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino (16 March 1907 – 17 March 1986) was the son of Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie de Ligne.Genealogy of della Torre e Tasso in: ''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels'' volume 85 (1984). Duke of Castel Duino His father was naturalised in Italy in 1923 with the title Prince della Torre e Tasso and was also created Duke of Castel Duino. Raimundo succeeded as the 2nd duke of Castel Duino following the death of his father on 11 March 1937. Marriage and issue He was married to Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark on 28 November 1949 in Athens. They divorced on 11 May 1965, having had one son who succeeded Raimondo as the 3rd duke of Castel Duino. *Carlo Alessandro, 3rd Duke of Castel Duino , image = , caption = , reign = 17 March 1986 – present , reign-type = Period , succession = Duke of Castel Duino , predecessor = Raimundo , successor = Prince Dimitri , suc-type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł
Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł (22 January 1911 – 19 November 1976) was a Polish aristocrat and officer of the Polish Army. His father, Prince Hieronim Mikołaj Radziwiłł, was deported to a gulag during the Soviet occupation of Poland and died on 6 April 1945. Marriage and issue He married Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, on 30 May 1938 in Paris, from whom he was divorced in 1946, and had children: * ''Tatiana'' Maria Renata Eugenia Elisabeth Margarete Radziwiłł (b. 28 August 1939); married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud on 24 March 1966.Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), ''The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia'', Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166. Tatiana was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of the future King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark and at the 1964 wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince George Of Greece And Denmark
Prince George of Greece and Denmark ( el, Γεώργιος; 24 June 1869 – 25 November 1957) was the second son and child of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, and is remembered chiefly for having once saved the life of his cousin the future List of Russian rulers#Emperors of Russia, Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II of Russia, Nicholas II in 1891 during their visit to Japan together. He served as high commissioner of the Cretan State during its transition towards independence from Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule and union with Greece. Youth From 1883, George lived at Bernstorff Palace near Copenhagen with Prince Valdemar of Denmark, his father's younger brother. The queen had taken the boy to Denmark to enlist him in the Danish royal navy and consigned him to the care of Valdemar, who was an admiral in the Danish fleet. Feeling abandoned by his father on this occasion, George would later describe to his fiancée the profound attachment he developed for his uncle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Eugénie Of Greece And Denmark
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark ( el, Ευγενία; 10 February 1910 – 13 February 1989) was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Marie-Félix Blanc and Prince Roland Bonaparte, a great-nephew of Napoleon I. Her father was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. As a cousin of the bridegroom, she was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She authored ''Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr'', a biography of Aleksey Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, written in French, which was published in 1990. Marriage and issue She married Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł, member of the House of Radziwiłł, on 30 May 1938 in Paris. They divorced in 1946. They had two children: *Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł (b. 28 August 1939); married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud.Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince George, Duke Of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent, (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and then briefly as a civil servant. He became Duke of Kent in 1934. In the late 1930s he served as an RAF officer, initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector General's Staff. He was killed in a military air-crash on 25 August 1942. Early life Prince George was born on 20 December 1902 at York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. His father was the Prince of Wales (later King George V), the only surviving son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. His mother was the Princess of Wales, later Queen Mary, the only daughter and eldest child of the Duke and Duches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Marina Of Greece And Denmark
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (27 August 1968), born Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark ( el, Μαρίνα), was a Greek princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, and a granddaughter of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece. Princess Marina married Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in 1934. They had three children: Prince Edward, Princess Alexandra, and Prince Michael. The Princess was widowed in 1942, when her husband was killed in a plane crash on active service. In later life she carried out many royal engagements, including the independence celebrations for Ghana and Botswana. Early life Princess Marina was born on 13 December 1906 in Athens, Greece, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, George I of Greece. She was the third and youngest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthold, Margrave Of Baden
Berthold, Margrave of Baden (''Berthold Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst August Heinrich Karl''; 24 February 1906 – 27 October 1963), was the head of the House of Baden, which had reigned over the Grand Duchy of Baden until 1918, from 1929 until his death. He was invalided out of the Nazi Party's Wehrmacht in 1940 after being injured in France. Marriage and children The only son and younger child of Prince Maximilian, Margrave of Baden and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland, Berthold married his second cousin Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, on 17 August 1931 in Baden-Baden. Via his marriage, he was the brother-in-law of Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip, Duke of Edinburgh from November 1947. His bride was also his second cousin, through Christian IX of Denmark. The couple had the following children: * Princess Margarita Alice Thyra Viktoria Marie Louise Scholastica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Theodora Of Greece And Denmark (1906–1969)
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (; 30 May 1906 – 16 October 1969) was by birth a Greek and Danish princess as well as Margravine of Baden through her marriage to Berthold, pretender to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The second of five children of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, Theodora spent a happy childhood between Athens and Corfu. In her youth, however, she witnessed the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), followed by the First World War (1914–1918) and the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). For the young princess and her relatives, these conflicts had dramatic consequences and led to their exile in Switzerland (between 1917 and 1920), then in France and the United Kingdom (from 1922 to 1936). During their exile, Theodora and her family depended on the generosity of their foreign relatives, in particular Marie Bonaparte (who offered them accommodation in Saint-Cloud) and Lady Louis Mountbatten (who supported them financially). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
