Prince George of Greece and Denmark
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Prince George of Greece and Denmark (
Youth
From 1883, George lived at Bernstorff Palace near Copenhagen with Prince Valdemar of Denmark, his father's younger brother. The queen had taken the boy to Denmark to enlist him in the Danish royal navy and consigned him to the care of Valdemar, who was an admiral in the Danish fleet. Feeling abandoned by his father on this occasion, George would later describe to his fiancée the profound attachment he developed for his uncle from that day forward.[1]
In 1891, George accompanied his cousin the
Greek endeavours
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George, along with his brothers Constantine and Nicholas, were involved with the organization of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. George served as president of the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports. He served as a judge for the weightlifting competition, and demonstrated his strength by clearing the weights at the end of the event.[2][3]
Although much of modern Greece had been independent since the 1820s, Crete remained in Ottoman hands. For the rest of the 19th century, there had been many rebellions and protests on the island. A Greek force arrived to annex the island in 1897 and the
areas of control.In 1898,
During the revolt, the newly created Cretan Gendarmerie remained faithful to George. In this difficult period, the Cretan population were divided: in the 1906 elections the pro-Prince parties took 38,127 votes, while pro-Venizelos parties took 33,279. But the Gendarmerie managed to execute its duties without taking sides. Finally, British diplomats brokered a settlement and in September 1906 George was replaced by former Greek prime minister Alexandros Zaimis, and left the island. In 1908, the Cretan Assembly unilaterally declared enosis (union) with Greece.
In October 1912 George returned from Paris to Athens so that he could join the naval ministry as Greece prepared for war against Turkey. Later he served as aide-de-camp to King George who, however, was assassinated in March 1913. George went to Copenhagen to settle his father's financial affairs there, as he had never ceased to be a Prince of Denmark.[4]
Marriage and family
Following a Parisian luncheon between King George and Prince Roland Bonaparte in September 1906 during which the king agreed to the prospect of a marriage between their children, George met Roland's daughter, Marie Bonaparte (2 July 1882 – 21 September 1962) on 19 July 1907 at the Bonapartes' home in Paris.[5] A member of one of the non-imperial branches of the Bonaparte dynasty, she was an heiress to the Blanc casino fortune through her mother.[6]
Although a homosexual,
George wed Marie civilly in Paris on 21 November 1907, and in a
From 1913 to early 1916, George's wife carried on an intense flirtation, then an
Although he was on friendly terms with his wife's mentor, Sigmund Freud, in 1925 George asked Marie to give up her work as a psychoanalyst to devote herself to their family life, but she declined.[16] When he learned from the newspapers in 1938 that his only son had married a Russian commoner, George forbade him to return home and refused ever to meet his wife.[17]
Prince George and Princess Marie had two children, Petros and Evgenia.
- Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908–1980); an anthropologist, who forfeited his dynastic rights in Greece upon marriage to a twice-divorced commoner. No children.
- Prince Raimondo della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino, whom she married in 1949 and divorced in 1965. She had children from both marriages.
In 1948, Prince George was named as one of the
Death
On 21 November 1957 Princess Marie and her husband celebrated their
Honours
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His Royal Highness | |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
- Denmark:[20]
- Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 25 November 1888
- Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog, 3 August 1889
- Grand Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog, 10 July 1920
- Commemorative Medal for the Golden Wedding of King Christian IX and Queen Louise
- King Christian IX Centenary Medal
- Navy Long Service Medal
- King Christian X's Liberty Medal
- Empire of Japan: Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, 14 May 1891[21]
- Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen, 1896[22]
- Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Ludwig, 18 April 1904[23]
- Kingdom of Italy: Knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, 2 May 1893[24]
- Order of Saint Olav, with Collar, 19 March 1929[25]
- Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle[26]
- Russian Empire: Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle the First-called[26]
- Sweden: Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim, 20 May 1919[26][27]
- United Kingdom: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (civil division), 29 June 1900[28]
- United Kingdom: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Ancestry
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See also
References
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From that day, from that moment on, I loved him and I have never had any other friend but him...You will love him too when you meet him.
- ^ Olympic Official Report, 1896 Games, part two, p. 71.
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- ^ Jane O'Grady, How Sigmund Freud escaped the Nazis, The Telegraph, 30 July 2022 [1]
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- ^ "The Christening of Prince Charles". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
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- ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1953) [1st pub.:1801]. Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1953 [State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1953] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 16, 18. Retrieved 24 December 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
- ^ 刑部芳則 (2017). 明治時代の勲章外交儀礼 (PDF) (in Japanese). 明治聖徳記念学会紀要. p. 149.
- ^ "A Szent István Rend tagjai" Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1914, p. 6 – via hathitrust.org
- ^ Italia : Ministero dell'interno (1898). Calendario generale del Regno d'Italia. Unione tipografico-editrice. p. 54.
- ^ "Den kongelige norske Sanct Olavs Orden", Norges Statskalender for Aaret 1930 (in Norwegian), Oslo: Forlagt av H. Aschehoug & Co. (w. Nygaard), 1930, pp. 995–996 – via runeberg.org
- ^ a b c Justus Perthes, Almanach de Gotha (1913) p. 41
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1921, p. 784, retrieved 20 February 2019 – via runeberg.org
- ^ Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) The Knights of England, I, London, p. 215