Queen Frederika (1917-1981)

[moody]

..Right Alexandra!A whole propaganda was based on weather she was a nazi or not!Very few people knew the trouth that you just said!! I thing she was in Venice for a while where she was studying art,and I thing that's where she first met her future husband PAVLOS of Greece....Am I right???

[Alexandra]

Originally posted by moody@Dec 2nd, 2003 - 9:19 pm
I thing she was in Venice for a while where she was studying art,and I thing that's where she first met her future husband PAVLOS of Greece....Am I right???

I had to look in the book that about Italia and Venice, because I had quite forgot it. .
It was not Venice, she was sent in Italy but Firenze (Florenz) and it was a American School. I don't know, what sie was studying there (and just now I don't time to read about it). At the same time Queen Helena of Rumanien was living in the neighbourhood of her school. She was a sister of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, the future King of Greece. Also her future husband. Yes, you had right, it was there they met. And she fell in love straight away.
(The had seen each other once, when she was a very young girl. And sometimes they had met here and there. Anyway, they were relatives.)

[Lord Williams]

George, I would love to see pictures of the Queen in her younger days! I love the Hanoverian women, I think they are very beautiful!

[vasilofron]

QUEEN FREDERIKA

[vasilofron]

THE ROYAL FAMILY 1963

[Alexandria]

I have just found a great website that connects booksellers from around the world and sells specifically out of print and rare books and maps. I found 18 copies of Queen Frederika's book there, but the prince range was tremendous. For those who have read it, what would you say is a reasonable price for this book?

And so I have a better understanding, what is the book about specifically? Her life story or certain parts of her life?

[Alexandria]

...

1963

1963

3 November 1953 - Vivacious Queen Frederika of Greece waves her hand in queenly gesture from her car window as she left the United Nations building after the visit she and her husband, King Paul made to the world organization today. the royal couple leave for Boston later tonight after their three day visit to New York City.

21 June 1954 - New York: Queen Frederika of Greece and her daughter, Princess Irene, make a mighty pretty picture on arrival January 21st aboard the liner United States. The Queen is holding her poodle, Topsy. The two royal ladies are here for a 17-day visit to New York and Washington.

[Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]

Hey there. You're not the only one who sees that this two queens look almost the same. They are both Hanoverians, but they are to far away related.
Here's a picture of Queen Friederike from beside, were she just look like the British Queen.

[moody]

1.Queen Frederica,Royal prince Konstantinos of Greece,Princess Sophia of Greece{Now Queen of Spain}

2.The children of Queen Frederikie

ETA: Source Gettyimages /Mandy

[moody]

http://www.dr.dk/aroyalfamily/ Family Tree of Queen Frederikie

[mal]

I wanted to buy a copy too until I saw I could get it at the NYPL at midtown unfortunnalty it was a 'refrence book so I coundn't take it out but had to stay and read it at the table . It only took me less than 2 hours and I'm not a speed reader ! She dosen't really give any "meat n potato" information very fluffy cute antidotes liek the how she didn't know she was pregnant and how the crowd at Totoi started to call out "Sofia" (they had wanted her to be called Olga) I think part of the problem was that at the time the book was written they were problems with the new incoming greek goverment . She does go on about her husband (King Paul) and her kids, Sofia was the apple of her eye and they were a close family. She also mentiond Constantine's win on the sailing event ( I get the nagging suspicion it was fixed )it was a bit odd she said he practised with a boat he got as a 18th birthday gift from the greek Navy but had no one to sail agaist so he had no idea how good (or bad) he was until he came up against the italian (no name) and suddenly tra la la won ?! She also mentioned to him at a lunch at the yacht club that she didn't want this to be a dominant event in his life and he agreed but in interviews and when he was on Larry King"about a 1/12 ago it HAS become a Major achivement and he loves to remind anybody about it I won't be surprised when the Olympics opening ceremony he will wear his medal and a t-shirt with the slogan I won and I'm a King of Greece!
Mal

[moody]

:flower: You still love the table reading???

[Sean.~]

Originally posted by mal@Feb 18th, 2004 - 11:24 am


I wanted to buy a copy too until I saw I could get it at the NYPL at midtown unfortunnalty it was a 'refrence book so I coundn't take it out but had to stay and read it at the table . It only took me less than 2 hours and I'm not a speed reader ! She dosen't really give any "meat n potato" information very fluffy cute antidotes liek the how she didn't know she was pregnant and how the crowd at Totoi started to call out "Sofia" (they had wanted her to be called Olga) I think part of the problem was that at the time the book was written they were problems with the new incoming greek goverment . She does go on about her husband (King Paul) and her kids, Sofia was the apple of her eye and they were a close family. She also mentiond Constantine's win on the sailing event ( I get the nagging suspicion it was fixed )it was a bit odd she said he practised with a boat he got as a 18th birthday gift from the greek Navy but had no one to sail agaist so he had no idea how good (or bad) he was until he came up against the italian (no name) and suddenly tra la la won ?! She also mentioned to him at a lunch at the yacht club that she didn't want this to be a dominant event in his life and he agreed but in interviews and when he was on Larry King"about a 1/12 ago it HAS become a Major achivement and he loves to remind anybody about it I won't be surprised when the Olympics opening ceremony he will wear his medal and a t-shirt with the slogan I won and I'm a King of Greece!
Mal

If you want something a bit heavier, try "No Ordinary Crown" (IIRC, that's the title). It's the biography on Fredericka's husband, Paul I.

Sean

[monos26]

How did he and Sophia get along with Queen Frederika?

[laskaris]

Well,they did fine!The royal prince was a little bit noty but everything was allright!!I am sure you 've heard something else???

[DDD]

Can somebody PLEASE tell me about her organised Mediterranean cruise, where the young and single princes and princesses of Europe were gathered??
I heard something like the Agamemnon cruise at the GREMB.

[Lyonnaise]

some random photos

ETA:
1. Polfoto
2. to 10. Gettyimages
Mandy/Admin

[Alexandra]

Thank you, Lyonnaise for those pictures. The Greek royal family is also my favourite one.
There were three pictures I had not seen earlier, thanks for posting them.
I collect pictures of the little yonger generation as queen Friederike. That means pictures of the family of queen Anne Marie and king Konstantin.

[laskaris]

Originally Posted by DDD

Can somebody PLEASE tell me about her organised Mediterranean cruise, where the young and single princes and princesses of Europe were gathered??
I heard something like the Agamemnon cruise at the GREMB.

Agamemnon cruise ,was the beggining of the Tourism Era for Greece.Right after ,the end of it Greece was enlisted in world tourstic map as an International Touristic Destination .In plain english- this means money from air,sea,sant,also a steady project wich lasted for years,made the islanders from poor peasants millioners!!That is a personal achievment and offer of their Majesties King Pavlos and Queen Frederike to the Greek People!!

[laskaris]

...Has anybody photos of the Greek Royal Family,(Southafrican Era??)Please post!