Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
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Princess Eugenie Radziwiłł
- Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł
- Prince Jerzy Radziwiłł
- Prince Carlo Alessandro, Duke of Castel Duino
Radziwiłł (by marriage)
Thurn and Taxis (by marriage)
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ευγενία, romanized: Evyenía; 10 February 1910 – 13 February 1989) was by birth member of the Greek royal family and by marriage member of the House of Radziwiłł and House of Thurn und Taxis.
Early life and ancestry
Eugenie was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Marie-Félix Blanc and Prince Roland Bonaparte, a great-nephew of Napoleon I. Her father was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. She had one elder brother, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, who, at the time of his birth, was third in line of succession to the Greek throne, preceded only by his unmarried cousin Paul and his own and Eugenia's father, Prince George.
As a cousin of the bridegroom, Eugenie was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[1] She was also attending Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.
She authored Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr, a biography of Aleksey Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, written in French, which was published in 1990.
Marriage and issue
She married Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł, member of the House of Radziwiłł (and son of Prince Hieronim Radziwiłł and Archduchess Renata of Austria), on 30 May 1938 in Paris. They divorced in 1946. They had two children:[2]
- Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł (b. 28 August 1939); married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud.[3] and has issue. Tatiana was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark as well as the 1964 wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark[4]
- Prince Jerzy (George) Andrzej Dominik Hieronim Piotr Leon Radziwiłł (4 November 1942 – 27 August 2001).
Eugénie remarried on 28 November 1949 to Prince Raymundo della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino, a cadet member of the House of Thurn and Taxis. Their marriage also ended in divorce, in 1965. They had one son:
- Prince Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, Duke di Castel Duino (b. 10 February 1952); married Veronique Lanz and had issue. His descendants are Dukes of Castel Duino, which represent Italian line of the Czech branch of the House of Thurn and Taxis, which is cadet branch of the main German House of Thurn und Taxis.
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Honours
References
- ^ Royal Collection: Seating plan for the Ball Supper Room http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/royalwedding1947/object.asp?grouping=&exhibs=NONE&object=9000366&row=82&detail=magnify
- ^ "Genealogy". Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- ^ Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia, Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166.
- ^ "Untitled Document". 25 August 2004. Archived from the original on 25 August 2004.
- ^ Coronation of Elizabeth II Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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- Helen, Queen Mother of Romania*
- Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta*
- Lady Katherine Brandram*
- Princess Eugénie, Duchess of Castel Duino*
- Olga, Princess Paul of Yugoslavia*
- Princess Elizabeth, Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach*
- Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent*
- Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg*
- Theodora, Margravine of Baden*
- Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine*
- Sophie, Princess George William of Hanover*
- Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia*
- Sofia, Queen of Spain*
- Princess Irene*
- Princess Alexandra, Mrs. Mirzayantz
- Princess Olga, Duchess of Aosta
- Princess Alexia, Mrs Morales*
- Princess Theodora*
*also a princess of Denmark
See also House of Glücksburg
See also House of Glücksburg
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