Alexandra of Greece

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Alexandra of Greece (1943)

Alexandra of Greece (born March 25, 1921 in Athens , Greece ; † January 30, 1993 in East Sussex , England ) had been the wife of King Peter II of Yugoslavia since 1944 and was therefore Queen of Yugoslavia in exile for one year.

Life

Alexandra was born on March 25, 1921, when her father, King Alexander I of Greece, was already dead. Since her mother Aspasia Manos belonged to the ancient Greek nobility, she was the only member of the Greek royal family to have direct Greek ancestors.

As a result of hostilities between her father, the popular King Alexander I, and his German-friendly father Constantine I, as well as ongoing hostility towards her mother, parts of the royal family avoided her.

On March 20, 1944, she married King Peter II of Yugoslavia in exile in London . Just one year later, on July 17, 1945, she gave birth to her only child, Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia , in Suite 212 in the Claridge Hotel in London. After the end of the Second World War, Peter II was deposed in exile in England, but never abdicated.

She died on January 30, 1993 in England and was initially buried in the cemetery of the Greek royal family in Tatoi . In May 2013, she was exhumed and her bones transferred to Serbia, where she has been resting with her husband in the royal tomb of Oplenac ever since . The burial of the bones of Alexandra and Peter II took place on May 26, 2013.

  • Princess Alexandra as an infant in the arms of her grandmother Sophie of Prussia (1921)

  • Married in 1944 in British exile (left and right of the couple: George VI of Great Britain and George II of Greece )

  • Alexandra with her son (around 1946)

  • After reconciliation with her husband in 1963 they went on a skiing holiday in Gstaad

  • Former grave of Alexandra of Yugoslavia in Tatoi

  • Grave in the crypt of the Church of St. George at Topola

literature

  • Cercle d'Etudes des Dynasties Royales Européenes.

Web links

Commons : Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia  - Alexandra of Greece

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Mendick, Patrick Sawer: Yugoslavia's exiled Queen returns home at long last . April 28, 2013 from telegraph.co.uk, accessed April 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Last Yugoslav King Petar II buried in Serbia . On May 26, 2013 at orf.at, accessed on April 1, 2018
predecessor Office Successor
Maria of Romania Queen of Yugoslavia
1944–1945 		---
personal data
SURNAME Alexandra of Greece
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek noblewoman, princess of Greece, queen of Yugoslavia
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1993
Place of death East Sussex