Princess Annemarie of Denmark

Danish princess and last queen of Greece .

1946 August 30th Prince Denmark and the youngest daughter of Princess Predeous in Sweden, he was born in the Amalien Bor Palace . There were two sisters, Princess Margrete and Princess Benedict. Prince Prederik was the eldest son of the Danish king Christian IV , and his mother, Prince Inrid, was the eldest daughter of Gustav VI and Conut's Margaret . 1946 October 9th He was baptized at the Holmen Church in Copenhagen , and his grandfather was Grandfather Christian IV , Prince Gustav Adolf of his maternal grandfather Sweden , Grandpa Hokon VIII , Princess Merta in Sweden , Tech's Merry , and the Dutch Juliana .

Most of his childhood was spent at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen . In 1947, a little less than a year after birth On April 20, his grandfather, Christian X , died, and his father, Crown Prince Frederick , ascended the throne as King of Denmark.

At the time Frederick IX ascended the throne, Denmark was applying the Salic Law, and since the king and his wife had only three daughters, Frederick IX's younger brother, Prince Knud, was to succeed to the throne . However, when the law was amended in 1953, the Salica Act was abolished, and Princess Margrethe, the eldest daughter of King Frederick IX and sister of Princess Annemarie, was able to succeed to the throne. Princess Annemarie is third in line to the throne after her older sisters.

In 1959, at the age of 13, Princess Annemarie fell in love with Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, who was on a state visit to Denmark with his parents. Crown Prince Constantine was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX and was the 8th cousin to Princess Annemarie. Afterwards, in the summer of 1962, Crown Prince Konstantinos, who secretly proposed to Princess Annemarie in Norway , declared to his parents, Pavlos and Queen Frederiki, that he would marry her.[1] It is said that Annemarie's father, Frederick IX , asked Princess Annemarie to wait for this marriage without informing the public until she was 18 years old and completed her studies.[2] In 1962, Crown Prince Constantine continued his love affair with Princess Annemarie, who became the flower girl at the wedding of her older sister , Princess Sofia of Greece and Denmark , and King Juan Carlos I.[3]

In January 1963, the Danish royal family announced the couple's engagement. The wedding was originally scheduled for January 1965, but was postponed in 1964. On March 6, King Pavlos of Greece died and Constantine II ascended the throne, so the schedule was postponed. Princess Annemarie announced her marriage to Constantine II in July of that year, and in 1964 , two weeks after her 18th birthday. September 18 They got married in Athens . And when he got married, he converted from Lutheranism to the Greek Church and renounced his right to succeed to the Danish throne.

After becoming queen, Anna Maria promoted several charity projects, especially helping citizens living in underdeveloped areas of Greece. In 1965, ten months after getting married Her first daughter, Princess Alexia, was born on July 10 , 1967. On May 20 , the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Pavlos, was born.

However, in April 1967, Colonel Georges Papadopoulos staged a coup and established a military regime in Greece . Accordingly, Constantine II attempted a counter coup in December of that year, but failed, and Italy had to go into exile in Rome . In the aftermath, Anna Maria suffered a miscarriage . While living in exile in Rome, she gave birth to Prince Nicholas in 1969, and moved to London after the abolition of the monarchy in 1973. After suffering a miscarriage in 1980, she gave birth to Princess Theodora in 1983 and Prince Philip in 1986, leaving her with a total of three sons and two daughters.

After living in exile in the UK , it was not until 2013 that he received permission to return to Greece permanently and has been living in Greece ever since.[4] He lived in Porto Heli, near the Aegean Sea, before moving to Athens in the spring of 2022 due to his husband's health problems.

2023 On January 10 , Constantine II died, losing her husband of nearly 60 years . She attended her funeral on January 16 wearing the pearl cross necklace she wore when she married Constantine II.

Even after his death, he continued to live in Athens, and in May 2023, he attended the coronation of King Charles III of England with his eldest son, former Crown Prince Pavlos, and his eldest daughter-in-law, Marie Chantal. In September 2023, she attended the Golden Jubilee event of her cousin , King Carl