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Aged only 17, he was elected King of the Hellenes on 30 March [O.S. 18 March] 1863 by the Greek National Assembly under the regnal name of George I. Paradoxically, he ascended a royal throne before his father, [12] who became King of Denmark on 15 November the same year. There were two significant differences between George's elevation and that ...
George was born at the royal villa at Tatoi, near Athens, the eldest son of Crown Prince Constantine of Greece and his wife, Sophia of Prussia. [1] George was a great-grandson of both Christian IX of Denmark, the "father-in-law of Europe", and of Queen Victoria, the "grandmother of Europe". George was born nine months after his parents married. [2]
The royal coat of arms of Greece under the Glücksburg dynasty, created after the restoration of King George II to the throne in 1935. The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after being temporarily abolished in favor of the Second Hellenic Republic, again from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more ...
Olga Constantinovna of Russia (Greek: Όλγα; 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1851 – 18 June 1926) was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920. A member of the Romanov dynasty , Olga was the oldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievich and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg .
King George I of Greece (c. 1910).. Eager to leverage his popularity to solidify his dynasty, George I decided to abdicate in favor of his son, Crown Prince Constantine.During his stay in Thessaloniki, the king announced to his family his intention to step down on his upcoming golden jubilee in October.
King George I, who was born as a son of Christian IX and was elected as the first King of the Hellenes. He married Olga Constantinovna of Russia. King Constantine I, who married Princess Sophia of Prussia. King George II, who married and later divorced Princess Elisabeth of Romania; King Alexander, who married Aspasia Manos
The following is a family tree for the Kings of the Hellenes of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which ruled Greece between the election of Prince Wilhelm of Denmark (George I) to replace Otto of Greece in 1863 until the declaration of the Second Hellenic Republic in 1924, and again from 1935 until the abolition of the monarchy during the reign of King Constantine II in ...
King George I of the Hellenes. At the urging of Britain and King George, Greece adopted a much more democratic constitution in 1864. The powers of the king were reduced and the Senate was abolished, [note 5] and the franchise was extended to all adult males. Nevertheless, Greek politics remained heavily dynastic, as it had always been.