Showing posts with label The Greek House of Glücksburg. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Princess Theodora of Greece wore Crown Princess Margaret’s Khedive of Egypt Tiara for her wedding to Matthew Kumar


 
Princess Theodora of Greece wore Crown Princess Margaret’s Khedive of Egypt Tiara for her wedding to Matthew Kumar at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens, Greece on 28 September 2024.

Thedora, the youngest child of the late King Constantine and ​​Queen Anne-Marie, tied the knot this weekend at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation in Athens, Greece, with many foreign royals in attendance. "The couple's desire to have their wedding in Athens reflects their love for Greece, the strong ties they maintain with the country and their desire to share Greek culture and hospitality and identity with their guests," the Greek royal family said in a statement.


Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Sophia of Prussia (14 June 1870 – 13 January 1932)


 Sophia of Prussia (14 June 1870 – 13 January 1932) was Queen of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922 as the wife of King Constantine I.


A member of the House of Hohenzollern and child of Frederick III, German Emperor, Sophia received a liberal and Anglophile education, under the supervision of her mother Victoria, Princess Royal. In 1889, less than a year after the death of her father, she married her third cousin Constantine, heir apparent to the Greek throne. After a difficult period of adaptation in her new country, Sophia gave birth to six children and became involved in the assistance to the poor, following in the footsteps of her mother-in-law, Queen Olga. However, it was during the wars which Greece faced during the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century that Sophia showed the most social activity: she founded field hospitals, oversaw the training of Greek nurses, and treated wounded soldiers.