House Glucksburg | Name Princess of | |
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Issue Arrietta Morales y de GreciaAna Maria Morales y de GreciaCarlos Morales y de GreciaAmelia Morales y de Grecia Spouse Carlos Morales Quintana (m. 1999) Siblings Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece Parents Constantine II of Greece, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece Grandparents Paul of Greece, Frederica of Hanover, Ingrid of Sweden, Frederick IX of Denmark Aunts Princess Irene of Greece a, Sofia of Spain, Margrethe II of Denmark, Princess Benedikte of Denmark Similar People Carlos Morales Quintana, Queen Anne‑Marie of Greece, Constantine II of Greece, Pavlos - Crown Prince of, Princess Theodora of Greece | ||
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Αλεξία; born 10 July 1965) is the eldest child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie of Denmark, who were the last King and Queen of Greece, reigning from 1964 to 1973.
Contents
- UK ROYAL WEDDING PRINCESS ALEXIA OF GREECE MARRIES ARCHITECT
- Early life
- Marriage and children
- Titles and styles
- Honours
- Ancestry
- References
UK: ROYAL WEDDING: PRINCESS ALEXIA OF GREECE MARRIES ARCHITECT
Early life
Since her own birth and until the birth on 20 May 1967 of her brother Pavlos, Alexia was heir presumptive to the throne of the Hellenes, then an extant monarchy. Greece's order of succession to the throne was male-preference primogeniture rather than Salic, similar to the succession laws of the United Kingdom and Spain.
Educated, like her brothers, at the Hellenic College in London, she earned an AB at the University of London at Sussex, where she studied history. Subsequently she completed a course in elementary education, working in London's East End where she taught in a state primary school before moving to Barcelona where she became a teacher of children with developmental disabilities.
Marriage and children
On 9 July 1999 Alexia married Carlos Morales Quintana, an architect and a champion yachtsman, at St. Sophia Cathedral, London. The bride wore a gown by the Austrian designer Inge Sprawson. Her attendants were her sister Princess Theodora, her niece Princess Maria-Olympia, and Princess Mafalda, daughter of Kyril, Prince of Preslav, a son of former King Simeon of Bulgaria. The couple has four children: Arrietta (born 24 February 2002), Ana María (born 15 May 2003), Carlos (born 30 July 2005), and Amelia (born 26 October 2007).
Alexia and her family live now in her husband's native land, at Puerto Calero, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, in a house designed by her husband.
Titles and styles
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
Honours
Ancestry
She is also the niece of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Sofia of Spain.
