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When Greece was blockaded by the British Royal Navy in 1850 and again in 1854, to stop Greece from attacking the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War, Otto's standing amongst Greeks suffered. As a result, there was an assassination attempt on Queen Amalia , and finally, in October 1862, Otto was deposed while in the countryside.
Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (born Nonnie May Stewart; [a] 20 January 1878 – 29 August 1923) was an American-born heiress and member of the Greek royal family. She was married to Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark , the youngest child of King George I of Greece and his consort, Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia .
As I mentioned in my blog post, “Prince Philip’s Mum had a Habit,” Prince Philip of the United Kingdom, known as the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince Consort of Queen Elizabeth II, was born in 1921 on a kitchen table in Corfu, Greece, in a house that had no electricity or running water.
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ανδρέας; Danish: Andreas; 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1882 – 3 December 1944) was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece. He was a grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark and the father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was a prince of Greece and Denmark, both by virtue of his patrilineal descent.
Prince Philip was the fifth child and only son of Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece. His father, Prince Andrew, was the fourth son of King George I of Greece. Prince Philip’s mother was born Princess Alice of Battenberg at Windsor Castle in 1888. She was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria through the Queen's second daughter Alice.
On 2 August 1956, he married his third cousin-once-removed Princess Christina of Hesse (10 January 1933 – 21 November 2011), in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.She was the eldest child of Prince Christoph of Hesse and his wife, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II).
Between 1912 and 1913, Greece engaged in the Balkan Wars, during which Prince Andrew served under Crown Prince Constantine while Princess Alice worked as a nurse for wounded soldiers. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] They were, however, especially affected by the First World War , which created division between different branches of their family [ 17 ] as Greece ...
