Prince Juan Carlos of Spain & Princess Sofia of Greece 1962


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I believe its on display at the Palacio Real with other gowns worn by Her Majesty and her daughters.
 
:previous: I would love to be able to go and see it! But perhaps someone else has and was able to take (if permitted) some higher quality photos...?
 
An Ard Ri said:
I believe its on display at the Palacio Real with other gowns worn by Her Majesty and her daughters.
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It is on display at the Palace of Aranjuez together with the Wedding gowns of Infantas Elena and Cristina and the Princess of Asturias. Also other gowns worn by HM as the pink gown worn for the oath taking Ceremony of the King and the green gown worn for a religious Service a few days later. There are also other rooms with historic items from earlier Kings.
 
Stefan said:
It is on display at the Palace of Aranjuez together with the Wedding gowns of Infantas Elena and Cristina and the Princess of Asturias. Also other gowns worn by HM as the pink gown worn for the oath taking Ceremony of the King and the green gown worn for a religious Service a few days later. There are also other rooms with historic items from earlier Kings.
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Thanks Stefan :flowers:
 
AllGone said:
Did you learn who the ladies in yellow were?
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The lady on the left kind of resembles a young Queen Fabiola. She was born into Spanish royalty but married into Belgian royalty.
 
AllGone said:
The lady on the left kind of resembles a young Queen Fabiola. She was born into Spanish royalty but married into Belgian royalty.
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She was born into Spanish nobility but married into Belgian royalty, that is the difference.
 
maria-olivia said:
Did general Franco attend the Wedding ?
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Don Francisco Franco declined the invitation. He had a poor relationship with Don Juan de Borbón, the father of the groom. But the reason probably was that the Generalissimo had made a nasty fall from his horse and had to recover. At the royal wedding in Athens Don Francisco Franco was represented by Admiral Don Felipe José Abárzuza y Oliva, Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Armada Española, Minister of Marine, Grand Cross in the Orden Isabel la Católica.
 
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Sofia and Juan Carlos waving from the carriage

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The Bride and Groom with Queen Frederica

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Sofia and her bridesmaids

Princess Alexandra of Kent, Princess Tatiana Radziwill, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess Irene of Greece, Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, Princess Anne of France, Princess Irene of the Netherlands and The Infanta Pilar of Spain.

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Only Princesses as a bridesmaid... It was really in every aspect a royal wedding!
 
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Here's a great video of the 1962 Wedding of Juan Carlos of Spain and Sofia of Greece ,prior to this I didn't know that Rainier III and Princess Grace were there!


Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace

https://goo.gl/images/qzevqQ
 
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Before the Wedding and the pre-wedding ball Crown Prince Konstantinos gave an reception on 10 May Iin "Great Britain" hotel in honor of his sister Wedding


CP Konstantinos as wait to welcome his guests


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Queen Ingrid of Denmark and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain


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The 3 Danish Princesses


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Princess Eirini with Infanta Margarita


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Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofia


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Count and Countess of Barcelona


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King Pavlos and Queen Freideriki


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Queen Freideriki dances with her brother, Prince George William of Hanover.


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Prince Juan Carlos with Princess Grace of Monaco


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and with CP Konstantinos and Princess Anna Maria


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Konstantinos dance only with Anna Maria


Some quotes from the article:


"The 22-year-old CP Konstantinos did not want to let anyone else dance with the girl who had stolen his heart, 16-year-old Princess Anna Maria of Denmark. Queen Freideriki may have enjoyed the night and had fun herself, but this behavior of Konstantinos did not escape her watchful eye. Here is how he describes it in the "Measure of Understanding":
"At Sofia's wedding reception, Konstantinos danced only with Anna Maria. Every now and then I would whisper in his ear: "Please deal with the other girls too". "No," he replied, "I do not want anyone else to have the same idea I have of Anna Maria." So we saw again one of our children taking his way without us ".


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"Two Grandes d’Espana arrived first to wait and receive el Rey y la Reina as they had always considered and called them, Juan Carlos's parents, the Count and Countess of Barcelona. In front of the still closed door and the two doormen, on the left the Duke d ’Alburquerque and on the right the Duke d’Alba. The Duke of Beltran d'Alburquerque was the head of the honorary entourage of his King, the Count of Barcelona. Duke Luis d’Alba and his wife Duchess Gayetana d’Alba were in charge of the honorary entourage of Queen Victoria Eugenia, the grandmother of Juan Carlos.
A few weeks after the official engagement announcement, Duchess d’Alba came to Athens and settled for more than a month in Tatoi. Every day she taught Princess Sophia the customs, manners and customs of Spain and told her about the country that would become her homeland from now on. He taught her from how to fasten the Spanish headscarf on her head to what is forbidden and what one must do, passing through the secrets of Spanish cuisine.


http://www.royalchronicles.gr/princesssofiaspreweddingball/
 
eya said:
Some quotes from the article:


"The 22-year-old CP Konstantinos did not want to let anyone else dance with the girl who had stolen his heart, 16-year-old Princess Anna Maria of Denmark. Queen Freideriki may have enjoyed the night and had fun herself, but this behavior of Konstantinos did not escape her watchful eye. Here is how he describes it in the "Measure of Understanding":
"At Sofia's wedding reception, Konstantinos danced only with Anna Maria. Every now and then I would whisper in his ear: "Please deal with the other girls too". "No," he replied, "I do not want anyone else to have the same idea I have of Anna Maria." So we saw again one of our children taking his way without us ".
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Quite lovely. Konstantinos clearly knew whom he wanted to be his bride!

"Two Grandes d’Espana arrived first to wait and receive el Rey y la Reina as they had always considered and called them, Juan Carlos's parents, the Count and Countess of Barcelona. In front of the still closed door and the two doormen, on the left the Duke d ’Alburquerque and on the right the Duke d’Alba. The Duke of Beltran d'Alburquerque was the head of the honorary entourage of his King, the Count of Barcelona. Duke Luis d’Alba and his wife Duchess Gayetana d’Alba were in charge of the honorary entourage of Queen Victoria Eugenia, the grandmother of Juan Carlos.
A few weeks after the official engagement announcement, Duchess d’Alba came to Athens and settled for more than a month in Tatoi. Every day she taught Princess Sophia the customs, manners and customs of Spain and told her about the country that would become her homeland from now on. He taught her from how to fasten the Spanish headscarf on her head to what is forbidden and what one must do, passing through the secrets of Spanish cuisine.
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I didn't know that Sophia was taught by the Duchess of Alba. It makes sense to have the duchess of Alba as the most titled person in Spain and godchild of the groom's grandmother ensure that their future princess/queen would know all she needed to know to function in Spain's high society. I wonder if it resulted in any kind of special (personal) relationship between the two women.
 
Did Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (mother of Queen Frederika) attend the wedding?
 
The duchess of
Alba has since the beginning of their marriage been very close to JC and Sofia. I heard also that for the about 13 years the couple lived in Spain till the death of Franco they were quite hostages. They lived according to their rank but they did not have neither freedom nor money. They had all expenses covered but so few cash that they could not even buy a sandwich, this in order to be under Franco's full control. Hopefully they could count on the huge generosity of some of the Grandee of Spain, more especially the duchess of Alba.
I don't know, since the duchess of Alba had a daughter near Felipe's age, if the idea crossed both mother's mind about a possible match between their children. Unless queen Sofia wanted a royal blood bride for her son. Finally she ended up with Letizia.
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Quite lovely. Konstantinos clearly knew whom he wanted to be his bride!


I didn't know that Sophia was taught by the Duchess of Alba. It makes sense to have the duchess of Alba as the most titled person in Spain and godchild of the groom's grandmother ensure that their future princess/queen would know all she needed to know to function in Spain's high society. I wonder if it resulted in any kind of special (personal) relationship between the two women.
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