Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark

Michael of Greece ( born January 7, 1939 in Rome, Italy) is the only child of the Greek Prince Christopher of Greece and his second wife Princess Françoise Louise Marie Isabelle of Orléans.

Life

Michael of Greece and Denmark was born on January 7, 1939 in Rome. He is a grandson of the Greek King George I and Olga Romanova Konstantinovna. His father Christopher of Greece died a year after his birth. He grew up in Spain and France, before he studied economics in Paris. Subsequently, he did his military service in Greece and retired with the rank of third lieutenant in the service of.

On July 17, 1965, he married the Greek artist Marina Karella, the daughter of the bourgeois spouses Theodore Karellas and Elly Chalikiopoulos. Because of this morganatic marriage renounced Michael of Greece for himself and his future offspring to the Greek throne. Together they have two daughters:

• Alexandra of Greece ( b. 1968 )
• Olga of Greece ( b. 1971 ) married Aimone of Savoy -Aosta, son of Amadeus of Savoy

He lives in Paris. His knowledge of the royal families of Europe helped him with his books on the subject. He wrote, among other biographies about relatives or crown jewels. He also wrote novels.

Work (selection / English title )

• Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums
• The Empress of Farewells: The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico
• The White Night of St. Petersburg
• Crown Jewels of Britain and Europe
• Royal House of Greece

Weblink

• Literature by and about Michael of Greece in the catalog that German national library
• Michael of Greece ( English)

• Carrier of the elephant - Order
• House of Oldenburg ( Younger line of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg )
• Prince (Greece )
• Born in 1939
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