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Queen Olga (1851-1926), consort of King George I
Olga Konstantinovna, later Queen of Greece, with her mother. Coloured by me
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Queen Olga (1851-1926)
Does anyone have a good source of info in Queen Olga? Her genealogy (I know she was a Russian Grand Duchess)...
And some good pictures of her?
Thanks!
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Does anyone have a good source of info in Queen Olga? Her genealogy (I know she was a Russian Grand Duchess)...
And some good pictures of her?
Thanks!
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Look at Wikipedia. If you search for "Queen Olga" or Queen Olga of Greece" you will also be referred to the national Portrait Gallery site where you'll find a magnificent portrait of hers by Vandyk dating back to 1922. She is in mourning dress following the unexpected death of her son Alexander. Please note that during the short interregnum, she became Regent of Greece.
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07-31-2007, 04:56 PM
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In my post #3 above, I quoed inadvertently King Alexander as Queen Olga's son. He was, in fact, her grandson, the second son of her first son King Constantine I.
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07-31-2007, 05:02 PM
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I read (I believe in a book by prince Michael on the Greek Royal Family) that Queen Olga was feeling extremely homesick and whenever a boat of the Russian Navy arrived in Piraeus, the port adjacent to Athens, she would visit with the sailors joking and having fun with them.
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It's interesting to note that since the Prince of Wales is a direct descendant of Queen Olga, he will, upon his ascension to the British Throne, become the first British monarch to also descend from the Imperial House of Romanov. And perhaps also the only royal descendant of Queen Olga that will be a reigning monarch
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Are there any good books about Queen Olga? I find her quite interesting, just from the little I have read about her.
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08-26-2009, 04:33 PM
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Olga must have inherited her good looks from her mother, Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
File:Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Jewels of the Tsars, Prince Michael describes his great-grandmother as a natural beauty, using only simple pearls to highlight her good looks instead the usual grand Romanov jewels. She would also "keep her corsets on at night in order to preserve her wasp-like waist, and had silver and ivory paper knives made in the charming shape of her foot."
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08-27-2009, 03:19 AM
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In fact, the Crowns at the royal weddings is a tradition that Queen Olga brought from Russia. All eastern Orthodox countries-Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Modenegro- have this tradition, not only in royal weddings but in every wedding.
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08-27-2009, 12:19 PM
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other pictures
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6202/olgagreece.jpg
with her sons
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/563/olgaviuda.jpg
With family of russia.
Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mavrikievna (wife of Konstantin Konstantinovich ), Olga with her sons Constantine and Nicholas and before the Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (mother of Olga) and Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5254/olga.jpg
when was the Bolshevik Revolution , Queen Olga was living in Russia, she traveled to Saint Petersburg to leave of country, but Greece was a Republic and they didn´t recognized her Greek passport, she had that to ask aid to the embassy of Denmark, Denmark helped to her to leave of Russia with a Danish passport.  Part of her family was assassinated in Russia
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08-28-2009, 02:50 PM
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thank you! by pictures.
her live was very interesting. where did she died??
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08-28-2009, 03:35 PM
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She died in Italy, the family was exiled in Italy
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12-11-2009, 06:36 PM
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The first photo, the dress is beautiful .... This is very elegant..
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It's interesting to note that since the Prince of Wales is a direct descendant of Queen Olga, he will, upon his ascension to the British Throne, become the first British monarch to also descend from the Imperial House of Romanov. And perhaps also the only royal descendant of Queen Olga that will be a reigning monarch
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Will not the Prince of Asturias, upon becoming King of Spain, also be a reigning monarch descending from Queen Olga??? His mother was, before her marriage, Sophia of Greece.
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Will not the Prince of Asturias, upon becoming King of Spain, also be a reigning monarch descending from Queen Olga??? His mother was, before her marriage, Sophia of Greece.
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True, but two reigning monarchs already have Romanov blood: Margarethe of Denmark and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Romanov bloods has run through the Danish monarchs since 1947 through Queen Alexandrine.
Nicholas I > Michael Nikolaevich > Anastasia Mikhailovna > Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark
Margarethe and her first cousin, Carl Gustaf, are descended twice over from Grand Duchess Maria Pavlova through their grandmother Margaret of Connaught and great-grandmother Victoria of Baden, via the houses of Prussia and Saxe-Weimar:
Paul I > Maria Pavlova > Marie of Saxe-Weimar > Frederick Charles of Prussia > Louise Margaret of Prussia > Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden
paul, tsar of russia > maria of russia > augusta of saxe-weimar > louise of prussia > victoria of baden (queen of sweden)
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Good Call Empress R!!!
I totally missed those - didn't even cross my mind; as I was thinking solely along the lines of any being descendants of Queen Olga. 
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