| REFERENCE | TITLE | NAME | BORN | DIED | TITLE | NAME | BORN | DIED | COMMENTS | |
| 16 | King | George I of the Hellenes | 1845 | 1913 | Grand Duchess | Olga of Russia | 1851 | 1926 | See 2.3 & 4.962 - George succeeded Otto (previously Prince Otto of Bavaria) as King , after the latter had been forced to flee Greece in 1862 after an insurrection. (Note: Otto was King of Greece whereas George was King of the Hellenes). George was previously Prince Wilhelm of Denmark, he was elected King of the Hellenes on 5 June 1863 and accepted the crown on 31 October 1863. George was assassinated at Salonika by a mentally deranged Greek individual named "Schinas" who himself committed suicide whilst awaiting trial by jumping through a window during questioning. George had reigned almost fifty years and had planned to abdicate after his Golden Jubilee Celebrations. | |
| 16.1 | King | Constantine "Tino" I of the Hellenes | 1868 | 1923 | Princess | Sophie of Prussia | 1870 | 1932 | See 11.217 - Constantine left Greece on 11 June 1917 after an ultimatum issued by France and nominated his second son Alexander as his successor. His first son Georg was considered pro-German and was not acceptable to the French. Constantine returned to the throne on 17 December 1920 following the death of Alexander (Note: a plebiscite held for Constantine's return voted just under 1 million for his return with just over 10,000 against). Constantine was forced again to abdicate in 22 September 1922 in favour of his first son Georg. Constantine was thought to have had an affair with Paola Maria Lottero (later von Ostheim) morganatic wife of Prince Hermann Carl of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach who renounced his rights on 2 August 1909 (prior to his marriage) and was created Count von Ostheim. Paolo (von Ostheim) was sometimes described as Paolo, Princess of Saxe-Weimar and in 1925 she published "A King's Private Letters". | |
| 16.11 - QVD | King | Georg II of the Hellenes | 1890 | 1947 | Princess | Elisabeth of Roumania | 1894 | 1956 | See 6.122 - Georg lost his throne on 25 March 1924 when Greece was proclaimed a Republic. But was returned following elections on 3 November 1935. The Germans invaded Greece in April 1941 and the Royal Family were forced yet again to flee Greece first to Crete and then Egypt. A plebiscite held on 1 September 1946 decided by 69 per cent in favour of the restoration of the monarchy, Georg and his family returned to Greece 27/28 September 1946. | |
| 16.12 - QVD | King | Alexander I of the Hellenes | 1893 | 1920 | Aspasia Manos | 1896 | 1972 | Alexander died from blood poisoning after being bitten by a pet monkey (belonging to the keeper of a vineyard) whilst attempting to separate a fight between the monkey and his dog. Aspasia was created a Princess of Greece by Royal Decree on 10 September 1922. Aspasia is related to Iléana Manos (wife of Prince Charles-Louis Henri of Orleans (Duke of Chartres)). Aspasia's father (Petros Manos, born 1871) and Iléana's great grandfather (Konstantinos Manos, born 1869) were brothers. | ||
| 16.121 - QVD | Princess | Alexandra of Greece and Denmark | 1921 | 1993 | King | Peter II of Yugoslavia | 1923 | 1970 | See 7.541 - Alexandra was born posthumously. Peter succeeded his father (under the Regency of his uncle Prince Paul of Yugoslavia) when he was only 10 years old. He had to flee the Country in 1941 when it was invaded by Hitler. Yugoslavia was proclaimed a Republic on 29 November in 1945 and the monarchy abolished without Referendum. Peter died in Denver following a liver transplant almost destitute having turned to alcohol. Some sources erroneously shows Peter died in California. | |
| 16.13 - QVD | Princess | Helen of Greece and Denmark | 1896 | 1982 | King | Carol II of Roumania | 1893 | 1953 | See 6.121 - Carol renounced his rights to the Roumanian throne in 1925. His son Michael became king on the death of Ferdinand I, however Carol returned to Roumania in 1930 and usurped his son Michael as King of Roumania. Carol was deposed in 1940 and Michael become king for the second time. | |
| 16.14 - QVD | King | Paul I of the Hellenes | 1901 | 1964 | Princess | Friederike of Hanover (Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg) | 1917 | 1981 | See 25.1163 - Friederike died from anesthesia poisoning while undergoing eye surgery for cataracts | |
| 16.141 - QVD | Princess | Sophie "Sofia" of Greece and Denmark | 1938 | King | Juan Carlos I of Spain | 1938 | See 10.7362 - Juan Carlos ascended the Spanish throne on 22 November 1975 following the death of the Dictator, General Franco. | |||
| 16.142 - QVD | King | Constantine II of the Hellenes | 1940 | Princess | Anne-Marie of Denmark | 1946 | See 2.1113 - Constantine was deposed on 1 June 1973 following the "Colonels Coup" on 13 December 1967 | |||
| 16.1421 - QVD | Princess | Alexia of Greece and Denmark | 1965 | Carlos Morales y Quintana | 1970 | |||||
| 16.14211 - QVD | Arrietta Morales y de Grecia | 2002 | ||||||||
| 16.14212 - QVD | Anna-Maria Morales y de Grecia | 2003 | ||||||||
| 16.14213 - QVD | Carlos Morales y de Grecia | 2005 | ||||||||
| 16.14214 - QVD | Amelia Morales y de Grecia | 2007 | ||||||||
| 16.1422 - QVD | Crown Prince | Pavlos of Greece (Duke of Sparta) | 1967 | Marie-Chantal Miller | 1968 | Marie-Chantal is a sister of Alexandra Miller *** LINK IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING SET UP *** wife of Prince Alexandre Egon zu Fürstenberg | ||||
| 16.14221 - QVD | Princess | Maria Olympia of Greece and Denmark | 1996 | |||||||
| 16.14222 - QVD | Prince | Constantine-Alexios of Greece and Denmark | 1998 | |||||||
| 16.14223 - QVD | Prince | Achileas Andreas of Greece and Denmark | 2000 | |||||||
| 16.14224 - QVD | Prince | Odysseas Kimon of Greece and Denmark | 2004 | |||||||
| 16.14225 - QVD | Prince | Aristidis Stavros of Greece and Denmark | 2008 | The details of Aristidis Stavros name credited to WWD.com (click Eye Scoop: The Littlest Prince...) | ||||||
| 16.1423 - QVD | Prince | Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark | 1969 | |||||||
| 16.1424 - QVD | Princess | Theodora of Greece and Denmark | 1983 | |||||||
| 16.1425 - QVD | Prince | Philippos of Greece and Denmark | 1986 | |||||||
| 16.143 - QVD | Princess | Irene of Greece and Denmark | 1942 | |||||||
| 16.15 - QVD | Princess | Irene of Greece and Denmark | 1904 | 1974 | Prince | Aimon of Savoy (Italy) (4 th Duke of Aosta) | 1900 | 1948 | See 8.1312 - Aimon was designated King of Croatia 18 May 1941 but never reigned and finally abandoned all claim to that throne in 1943 | |
| 16.16 - QVD | Princess | Katherine of Greece and Denmark | 1913 | 2007 | Richard Campbell Brandram | 1911 | 1994 | Princess Katherine was granted the rank of a duke's daughter in Great Britain on 9 September 1947 by King George VI
and was known as Lady Katherine Brandram. An obituary on Princess Katherine can be found at
Telegraph.co.uk. Birth Registration of Richard Campbell Brandram |
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| 16.161 - QVD | Richard Paul Brandram | 1948 | Jennifer Steele | 1951 | ||||||
| 16.1611 - QVD | Sophie Brandram | 1981 | ||||||||
| 16.1612 - QVD | Nicholas Brandram | 1982 | ||||||||
| 16.1613 - QVD | Alexia Brandram | 1985 | ||||||||
| 16.2 | Prince | George "Big George" of Greece and Denmark | 1869 | 1957 | Princess | Marie Bonaparte | 1882 | 1962 | Princess Marie was a great granddaughter of Napoleon I's brother Lucien | |
| 16.21 | Prince | Peter of Greece and Denmark | 1908 | 1980 | Irene Ovtchinnikova | 1904 | 1990 | |||
| 16.22 | Princess | Eugenie of Greece and Denmark | 1910 | 1989 | Prince | Dominik Radziwill | 1911 | 1976 | See 44.3422 | |
| 16.22 | Princess | Eugenie of Greece and Denmark | 1910 | 1989 | Prince | Raimundo della Torre e Tasso (2 nd Duca di Castel Duino) | 1907 | 1986 | Raimundo's father was Prince Alexander Karl of Thurn and Taxis who was naturalized in Italy 1923 as Principe della Torre e Tasso (created 1 st Duca di Castel Duino). Raimundo and his brother Ludwig together with their issue bear the title Prince[ss] della Torre e Tasso. Raimundo's sister Margarete bears the title Princess von Thurn und Taxis | |
| 16.221 | Prince | Carlo della Torre e Tasso (3 rd Duca di Castel Duino) | 1952 | Veronique Lantz | 1951 | |||||
| 16.2211 | Prince | Dimitri della Torre e Tasso | 1977 | |||||||
| 16.2212 | Prince | Maximilian della Torre e Tasso | 1979 | |||||||
| 16.2213 | Princess | Constanza della Torre e Tasso | 1989 | |||||||
| 16.3 | Princess | Alexandra "Aline" of Greece and Denmark | 1870 | 1891 | Grand Duke | Paul of Russia | 1860 | 1919 | See 4.918 - Princess Alexandra suffered a convulsive fit in the seventh month of her pregnancy. Her son Dimitri was delivered and lived into adulthood, however Alexandra never regained consciousness and died after six days in a coma. | |
| 16.4 | Prince | Nicholas of Greece and Denmark | 1872 | 1938 | Grand Duchess | Helen of Russia | 1882 | 1957 | See 4.9145 | |
| 16.41 | Princess | Olga of Greece and Denmark | 1903 | 1997 | Prince | Paul of Yugoslavia | 1893 | 1976 | See 7.J1 - Prince Paul acted as Regent (9 October 1934 to 27 March 1941) for his cousin King Peter II who was only 10 years old when he succeeded his father King Alexander | |
| 16.42 | Princess | Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark | 1904 | 1955 | Count | Carl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach | 1900 | 1967 | See 18.K521 | |
| 16.43 | Princess | Marina of Greece and Denmark | 1906 | 1968 | Prince | George of Great Britain (Duke of Kent) | 1902 | 1942 | See
1.225 - The Duke of Kent was killed in an air crash when his Sunderland flying boat ran into a mountainside as it headed from Invergordon in Scotland for Iceland where the Duke was to inspect
Allied forces. Fifteen passengers were killed in the air crash, with Flight Sergeant
Andrew Jack the rear gunner and navigator being the sole survivor. Birth Registration of Prince George (Duke of Kent) |
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| 16.5 | Princess | Marie of Greece and Denmark | 1876 | 1940 | Grand Duke | George of Russia | 1863 | 1919 | See 4.984 - Marie was responsible for producing a unique series of drawings called KATOUFS (Note: KATOUFS an old Greek expression that means "making a face.") | |
| 16.5 | Princess | Marie of Greece and Denmark | 1876 | 1940 | Pericles Joannides | 1881 | 1965 | |||
| 16.6 | Princess | Olga of Greece and Denmark | 1880 | 1880 | ||||||
| 16.7 | Prince | Andrew of Greece and Denmark | 1882 | 1944 | Princess | Alice of Battenberg | 1885 | 1969 | See
5.1421 - In 1922 Prince Andrew along with some Greek Ministers and army commanders were arrested and charged with treason by the Greek revolutionary Government. Five of those arrested were executed and Andrew was released under secrecy and left Greece on board a British Naval Ship. Birth Registration of Princess Alice |
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| 16.71 - QVD | Princess | Margarita of Greece and Denmark | 1905 | 1981 | Prince | Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (8 th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg) | 1897 | 1960 | See 39.3311 | |
| 16.72 - QVD | Princess | Theodora of Greece and Denmark | 1906 | 1969 | Margrave | Berthold of Baden | 1906 | 1963 | See 32.5522 | |
| 16.73 - QVD | Princess | Cecilie of Greece and Denmark | 1911 | 1937 | Hereditary Grand Duke | Georg Donatus "Don" of Hesse and by Rhine | 1906 | 1937 | See 5.12143 - Hereditary Grand Duke Georg his wife Princess Cecilia, two sons and mother Princess Eleoner were killed in an aeroplane accident near Ostende. Cecilia was eight months pregnant at the time of the crash and the baby's body was discovered amongst the wreckage. The party were on their way to Croydon Airport to attend the wedding of his brother Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine to Margaret Geddes | |
| 16.74 - QVD | Princess | Sophie of Greece and Denmark | 1914 | 2001 | Prince | Christoph of Hesse-Cassel | 1901 | 1943 | See 45.41456 - Christoph was killed in an aeroplane accident in the Appenines whilst on active service. An obituary on Princess Sophie can be found at Telegraph.co.uk | |
| 16.74 - QVD | Princess | Sophie of Greece and Denmark | 1914 | 2001 | Prince | Georg Wilhelm of Hanover (Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg) | 1915 | 2006 | See 25.1162 - An obituary on Princess Sophie can be found at Telegraph.co.uk | |
| 16.75 - QVD | Prince | Philip of Greece and Denmark (Duke of Edinburgh) | 1921 | Queen | Elizabeth II of Great Britain | 1926 | See
1.2221 - Prince Philip renounced his rights to the Greek throne and was naturalised in Great Britain taking the name of Mountbatten on 28 February 1947 Birth Registration of Queen Elizabeth II |
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| 16.8 | Prince | Christopher of Greece and Denmark | 1888 | 1940 | Anastatia May "Nancy" Stewart | 1878 | 1923 | Nancy is the mother of William Leeds (by her second husband William Bateman Leeds), husband of Princess Xenia of Russia (who's also a niece of Prince Christopher). Nancy was first married to George Worthington. There are inconsistencies in various sources regarding the year of birth of Nancy. Alain Giraud one of the authors of L'ALLEMAGNE DYNASTIQUE posted a response to royaute2 on 31 Aug 2004 that meticulous research had established her year of birth as 1878. In Prince Christopher's book "Memoirs of H.R.H Prince Christopher of Greece" page 152 he mentions his wife Nancy was "exactly fours years then I", which would suggest her year of birth was 1884 | ||
| 16.8 | Prince | Christopher of Greece and Denmark | 1888 | 1940 | Princess | Francoise of Orleans (France) | 1902 | 1953 | See 13.1252 | |
| 16.81 | Prince | Michael of Greece and Denmark | 1939 | Marina Karella | 1940 | Prince Michael in 1965 renounced his rights to the Greek Throne for himself and his descendants | ||||
| 16.811 | Princess | Alexandra of Greece and Denmark | 1968 | Nicolas Mirzayantz | 1963 | |||||
| 16.8111 | Tigran Mirzayantz | 2000 | ||||||||
| 16.8112 | Darius Mirzayantz | 2002 | ||||||||
| 16.812 | Princess | Olga of Greece and Denmark | 1971 | Prince | Aimone of Savoy (Duke of Apulia) | 1967 | See 8.131212 |