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Prince Andrew (first from the right) on trial in 1922. The Greek defeat in Asia Minor in August 1922 led to the 11 September 1922 Revolution, during which Prince Andrew was arrested, court-martialed, and found guilty of "disobeying an order" and "acting on his own initiative" during the battle of the previous year.
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Battle of Sakarya. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (2 February 1882 – 3 December 1944) was a Greek and Danish prince of the House of Glucksburg. He was the son of George I of Greece and the grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and Queen Louise of Denmark.
- Royal Cemetery, Tatoi Palace, Athens, Greece
- Princess Alice of Battenberg (m. 1903)
Dec 1, 2019 · Princess Alice with her husband Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in Athens, 1921. Their youngest child became Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Photograph: Walter Gircke/Getty. The...
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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 of Hesse.
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Prince Andrew was much lower in the line of succession for the royal throne and he started his career with a position in the Greek army and saw action during the Balkan wars at the age of 30. The uprising caused much harm to Greece and his father, King George died in 1913.
Prince Andreas of Greece and Denmark (typically known as Andrew) was born February 2, 1882, in Athens, Greece, the son of King George I of the Hellenes and Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia. At the time of his birth, he was fourth in line to the Greek throne behind his three brothers. Andreas had seven siblings:
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 .