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George I of Greece. First contact between Danes and Greeks dates back from the 4th century BC, when Greek merchant Pytheas went to Denmark. In 1863, the second King of Greece, George I, was of Danish descent, and his successors, the House of Glücksburg, reigned over the country until 1973/1974. In 1967, Denmark and three other countries ...
Oct 7, 2017 · In 1909, Andrew and his brothers were forced to give up their military posts, though Andrew was able to resume his career in 1912 when Greece went to war with Turkey. Alice occupied herself with nursing, a professions very much championed by her grandmother, Princess Alice, in Hesse and her aunt, Ella, who had married Grand Duke Serge of Russia.
The wedding of Constantine II, King of the Hellenes, and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place on Friday, 18 September 1964, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. Constantine II was the reigning Greek monarch, while Princess Anne-Marie was the youngest daughter of King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark.
When Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark was born on 18 April 1905, in Kérkyra, Corfu, Greece, her father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, was 23 and her mother, Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg, was 20. She married Gottfried Hermann Alfred Paul Maximilian Viktor Fürst Hohenlohe-Langenburg 8th Prince of ...
The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Kingdom includes Denmark proper and the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The Kingdom of Denmark was already consolidated in the 8th century, whose rulers are consistently referred to in Frankish sources (and in ...
Brief Life History of Andrew. When Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was born on 2 February 1882, in Athens, Attica, Greece, his father, King George I of Greece, was 36 and his mother, Grand Duchess Olga Containstinovna Romanov of Russia, was 30. He married Princess Alice of Battenberg on 6 October 1903, in Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy ...
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Andreas; 2 February 1882 (N.S.) – 3 December 1944) of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. He was a grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He began military training at an early age, and was ...
