Alexandra Greek

Alexandra Greek
Alexandra Greek
	Greek Αλεξάνδρα της Ελλάδας
	; Queen with her son, Prince Alexander.
	; Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
	March 20, 1944 - November 29, 1945; (under the name of Alexandra the Greek )
Predecessor	Maria Romanian
Successor	(Crown Princess)
Birth	March 25, 1921 ; Athens , Greek Kingdom
Death	January 30, 1993 (71 years old); East Sussex , UK
Burial place	Tatoy
Kind	Glucksburgs → Karageorgievichi
Father	Alexander I , king of Greece
Mother	Aspazia Manos
Spouse	Peter II , king of Yugoslavia
Children	Alexander
Education	;
Religion	Orthodoxy

Alexandra of Greece ( Greek Αλεξάνδρα της Ελλάδας ; March 25, 1921, Athens , the Kingdom of Greece - January 30, 1993, East Sussex , Great Britain ) - Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark, daughter of the Hellenic King Alexander I of the Glucksburg family, the last Queen of the South in marriage.

Content

1 Biography
- 1.1 Princess of Greece and Denmark
- 1.2 Queen of Yugoslavia
2 notes
3 References

Biography

Princess of Greece and Denmark

Princess Alexandra was born on March 25, 1921 in Athens, five months after the death of her father. She was the daughter of Alexander I, king of Greece and his morganatic widow Aspazia Manos .

Alexandra’s grandfather, King Constantine I of Greece , was reinstated on the throne, in which the government, following the law on succession to the throne, recognized the marriage of his late son as illegal and his granddaughter illegitimate.

At the request of the grandmother of Alexandra, Queen Sofia of Greece , a new law on succession was adopted in July 1922, which allowed the recognition of the validity of marriages of members of the royal family without the consent of the ruling sovereign, even retroactively, although without the right of succession.

King Constantine I by decree of September 10, 1922 officially recognized the marriage between his late son Alexander and his widow Aspazia Manos. Thus, Alexandra was recognized as a member of the ruling house, but without the right of succession to the throne ^[1] ^[2] .

She and her mother were given the titles of Princesses of Greece and Denmark with the appeal “Your Royal Highness” ^[3] . Such a title was held by all non-ruling members of the Greek royal family, who were also members of the younger branch of the Danish royal family.

Queen of Yugoslavia

In 1944, Alexander the Greek moved to London , where she married King Peter II of Yugoslavia and gave birth to Crown Prince Alexander Karageorgievich . According to the law of succession to the Yugoslav kingdom, the future king must be born exclusively on Yugoslav territory. Therefore, on July 17, 1945, room number 212 at the Clareridge Brook Street Hotel in London for a day was ceded to the British government of Yugoslavia.

Alexandra Grecheskaya, Queen of Yugoslavia, died on January 30, 1993 in East Sussex, England and was buried in the former residence of the Hellenic kings in Tatoy in Greece.

Notes

↑ Diesbach, Ghislain de | others. Secrets of the Gotha. Chapman & Hall. London, 1967. P. 225
↑ Joseph Valynseele. Les Prétendants aux trônes d'Europey Paris, 1967.P. 442
↑ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Guide to the Royal Family. Burke's Peerage. London, 1973. ISBN 978-0-220-66222-6

Links

Obituary: Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia at The Independent

[1] Diesbach, Ghislain de | others. Secrets of the Gotha. Chapman & Hall. London, 1967. P. 225

[2] Joseph Valynseele. Les Prétendants aux trônes d'Europey Paris, 1967.P. 442

[3] Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Guide to the Royal Family. Burke's Peerage. London, 1973. ISBN 978-0-220-66222-6