Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameKing Alexander (Constantine) of Greece
Birth1 Aug 1893, Tatoi, Athens, Greece
Death24 Oct 1920, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
Burial29 Oct 1920
MemoState funeral.
Note 1Died of blood poisoning after being bitten by a pet monkey. In June 1917 he was the only member of the Greek royal family to remain in Greece.
FatherKing Constantine ‘Tino’ (George) of Greece (1868-1923)
MotherPrincess Sophia Dorothea Ulrike Alice of Prussia (1870-1932)
Marriage17 Sep 1919, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
SpousePrincess/Queen Aspasia (Petros) Manos, 9C4R
Birth4 Sep 1896, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
Death7 Aug 1972, Ospedale al Mare, Venice, Italy
Burial1972, Greek Orthodox Cemetery, San Michele, Venice, Italy
MemoReinterred in 1993 in Athens.
Note 1She married in secret because she was a commoner and the marriage was not officially recognised until 9 Oct 1922. She was not known as Princess Aspasia until the late 1920s.
Note 2A nurse in Macedonia in WWl. Worked for the Greek Red Cross in Athens in WWll.
Note 3There is a lingering suspicion that she might have precipitated, or been involved in, a ‘scandal’ involving perhaps the birth of an illegitimate child in 1919, which may perhaps have been connected with her father’s ‘mysterious’ death in Zurich in 1918.
Flags***, Argyropoulo, Callimachi, Caradja, Ghika, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Rosetti, Soutzo
FatherColonel Petros (Thrasybulos) Manos (1871-1918)
MotherMaria (Jacobus) Argyropoulo (1874-1926)
Children
1 FPrincess Alexandra (Alexander) of Greece, 10C3R
Birth25 Mar 1921
Death30 Jan 1993, Burgess Hill, Sussex, England
BurialTatoi, Athens, Greece
SpousePrince Peter (Alexander) Karadjordjevic ll King of Yugoslavia (1923-1970)
Marriage20 Mar 1944, Yugoslav Embassy, London, England
ChildrenAlexander (Peter) (1945-)