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In 1902, Prince An­drew met Princess Alice of Bat­ten­berg dur­ing his stay in Lon­don on the oc­ca­sion of the coro­na­tion of her grand-un­cle and his aunt's hus­band, King Ed­ward VII, in Lon­don. Princess Alice was a daugh­ter of Prince Louis of Bat­ten­berg and Princess Vic­to­ria of Hesse and by Rhine. They fell in love, and the fol­low­ing year, on 6 Oc­to­ber 1903, An­drew mar­ried Alice in a civil wed­ding at Darm­stadt. The fol­low­ing day two re­li­gious wed­ding ser­vices were per­formed: one Lutheran in the Evan­gel­i­cal Cas­tle Church, and an­other Greek Or­tho­doxin the Russ­ian Chapel on the Mathildenhöhe. Prince and Princess An­drew had five chil­dren, all of whom later had chil­dren of their own.

In 1909, the po­lit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in Greece led to a coup d'état, as the Athens gov­ern­ment re­fused to sup­port the Cre­tan par­lia­ment, which had called for the union of Crete (still nom­i­nally part of the Ot­toman Em­pire) with the Greek main­land. A group of dis­sat­is­fied of­fi­cers formed a Greek na­tion­al­ist Mil­i­tary League that even­tu­ally led to Prince An­drew's res­ig­na­tion from the army and the rise to power of Eleft­he­rios Venize­los. A few years later, at the out­break of the Balkan Wars in 1912, An­drew was re­in­stated in the army as a lieu­tenant colonel in the 3rd Cav­alry Regiment, and placed in com­mand of a field hospital. Dur­ing the war, his fa­ther was as­sas­si­nated and An­drew in­her­ited a villa on the is­land of Corfu, Mon Repos. In 1914, An­drew (like many Eu­ro­pean princes) held hon­orary mil­i­tary posts in both the Ger­man and Russ­ian em­pires, as well as Pruss­ian, Russ­ian, Dan­ish and Ital­ian knighthoods. Dur­ing World War I, he...

For three years, Con­stan­tine's sec­ond son, Alexan­der, was king of Greece, until his early death from an in­fec­tion due to a mon­key bite. Con­stan­tine was re­stored to the throne, and An­drew was once again re­in­stated in the army, this time as a major-general. The fam­ily took up res­i­dence at Mon Repos. An­drew was given com­mand of the II Army Corps dur­ing the Bat­tle of the Sakarya, which ef­fec­tively stale­mated the Greco-Turk­ish War (1919–1922). An­drew had lit­tle re­spect for his su­pe­rior of­fi­cers, whom he con­sid­ered incompetent. On 19 Sep­tem­ber 1921, An­drew was or­dered to at­tack the Turk­ish po­si­tions, which he con­sid­ered a des­per­ate move lit­tle short "of ill-con­cealed panic". Re­fus­ing to put his men in undue dan­ger, An­drew fol­lowed his own bat­tle plan, much to the dis­may of the com­mand­ing gen­eral, Anas­ta­sios Pa­poulas. Re­lieved of his chief of staff, and given a dress­ing-down by Pa­poulas, An­drew of­fered to re­sign his com­mand...

He died in the Hotel Metro­pole, Monte-Carlo, Monaco of heart fail­ure and ar­te­rioscle­ro­sis just as the war was ending. An­drew was at first buried in the Russ­ian Or­tho­dox church in Nice, but in 1946 his re­mains were trans­ferred, by the Greek cruiser Averof, to the royal ceme­tery at Tatoi Palace, near Athens. Prince Philip and then-pri­vate sec­re­tary, Mike Parker, trav­eled to Monte-Carlo to col­lect items be­long­ing to his fa­ther from Count­ess Andrée de La Bigne; among these items: a signet ring which the Prince wore from then on­wards, an ivory shav­ing brush he took to using, and some clothes he had adapted to fit him. Prince An­drew left to his only son seven-tenths of his es­tate, but he left be­hind a debt of £17,500, lead­ing Philip's ma­ter­nal grand­mother, Vic­to­ria, Mar­chioness of Mil­ford Haven, to com­plain bit­terly of the ex­trav­a­gance the Greek prince had been led into by his French mistress.

Greece, Prince Andrew of (1930). Towards Disaster: The Greek Army in Asia Minor in 1921London: John Murray.