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George I of Greece. (Former King of Greece (1863 - 1916)) King George I was the emperor of Greece from 1863 to 1913. He was born in the mid-1840s in Denmark as Prince William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg, which had been ruling Denmark since 1448. Although initially destined for a career ...
George I. 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 Louise of Hesse. He was brother to Alexandra of Denmark (Queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and Maria Fyodorovna, consort of Alexander ...
Her brother George was reinstated as king in 1935, and Katherine returned to Greece with her sister, Irene. She joined the Greek Red Cross when the Second World War broke out in 1939. In 1941, after Greece had been overrun by Axis forces , she fled to South Africa with her third brother, Paul, in a Sunderland flying boat , where she worked as a nurse at a hospital in Cape Town .
George I was assassinated in Thessaloniki by an anarchist, Alexandros Schinas, on 18 March 1913, and Constantine succeeded to the throne. In the meantime, tensions between the Balkan allies grew, as Bulgaria claimed Greek and Serbian-occupied territory. In May, Greece and Serbia concluded a secret defensive pact aimed at Bulgaria.
Otto ( Greek: Όθων, romanized : Óthon; German: Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Wittelsbach; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was a Bavarian prince who ruled as King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862 . The second son of King Ludwig I of ...
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As an agnatic descendant of Christian IX of Denmark Theodora is a Danish princess, and because King Christian's second son, Prince William of Denmark, was elected "George I, King of the Hellenes" in 1863, her father (George's great-grandson) inherited the throne of Greece in 1964.
