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Alexandra of Greece (25 March 1921 - 30 January 1993) was the wife of the last King of Yugoslavia, Peter II. March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...
1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...
HM King Peter II (6 September 1923 - 3 November 1970) was the last King of Yugoslavia. ...
She was born in Athens in Greece, after the death of her father. Her parents were King Alexander I of Greece and his wife, Aspasia Manos. The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ...
Alexander I, King of the Hellenes, ruled Greece from 1917-1920. ...
Princess Aspasia Manos (4 September 1896-7 August 1972) was wife of Alexander I, King of the Hellenes. ...
As daughter of Aspasia and granddaughter of Petros Manos and Maria Argyropoulos, she was the only scion of the Royal Family of Greece who had Greek blood from recent generations. Through her mother's side she descended, among others, from Greek nobility of Istanbul (Phanariotes). Phanariotes (from Phanar, the chief Greek quarter at Istambul, where the oecumenical patriarchate is situated) were those members of families resident in the Phanar quarter who between the years 1711 and 1821 were appointed voivodes of the Danubian principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia). ...
From her father's side, she descended from several Emperors of Constantinople (Byzantium) as well as from several other medieval monarchs of Balkan region. These ancestrors however lived several centuries ago, mostly in the Byzantine era. Map of Constantinople. ...
The posthumous daughter was recognized as Princess of Greece and Denmark, though she grew up somewhat shunned by the German-based royal families. She died in East Sussex in England on 30 January 1993 and was buried in the former private Greek royal residence at Tatoi in Greece. East Sussex is a county in South East England. ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion...
January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Tatoi, located 15 kilometres north of the centre of Athens, is the site of the summer palace of the former Greek Royal Family, and the site of George II, King of the Helleness birth. ...
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Princess Alexandra of Greece (1870 - 1891) was daughter of George I of Greece and Olga, Queen of Greece. She was married to Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich. She died while giving birth to Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov. 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
George I (December 24, 1845 - March 18, 1913) was King of the Hellenes (Greece) from 1863 to 1913 He was born in Copenhagen, the second son of King Christian IX of Denmark and the brother of Alexandra of Denmark (consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom). ...
Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova, Queen of Greece ( 3 September 1851 - 18 June 1926) married King George I of Greece. ...
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov (Дмитри Павлович Романов) (September 18, 1891 – March 5, 1941) was a Russian nobleman, one of the few Romanovs to escape execution by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. ...
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