Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark

Olga of Greece and Denmark ( born June 11, 1903 in Tatoi, † October 16th 1997 in Paris) was the wife of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia.

She was born as the eldest daughter of the Greek Prince Nicholas, a son of King George I, and his wife Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna Romanova of Russia. Her sister is Marina Duchess of Kent, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is her cousin.

1922 Olga was with the Danish Crown Prince Frederik, later King Frederick IX. engaged, but she married on October 22, 1923 in Belgrade, the Yugoslav Prince Paul. After the assassination of Alexander I of this took the regency for his not yet old nephew Peter II. The couple had three children: Elizabeth, Alexander and Nikola.

After Paul was in 1941 joined the Tripartite Pact, was a coup d'état in Belgrade against him, and the family went into exile. During the war they were in South Africa under British house arrest.

As Olga's homeland Greece 1975 Republic was, they also lost the Greek title. Only her Danish title was valid until her death. Princess Olga survived her husband by 21 years and died in Paris in 1997, she was buried beside her husband in the Cimetière de Bois de Vaux in Lausanne.

Your granddaughter of the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth Howard Oxenberg is the American actress Catherine Oxenberg.

Source

• Centre d' Études of Dynasties Royales Européenes

• Spouse of a famous person
• House of Oldenburg ( Younger line of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg )
• Born in 1903
• Died in 1997
• Woman