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The couple was blessed with seven children

When King George I was murdered in 1913, his eldest son, Prince Constantine, became King of Greece under the name of Constantine I. Already in 1899 he had married Princess Sophie (1870-1932), who was a sister of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and grand-child of Queen Victoria. 

He was a very unlucky monarch who ruled briefly twice. He was deposed in favor of his son Alexander I in 1917. Upon Alexander I's death in 1920, he was King once more, but was forced to abdicate in 1922 in favour of his eldest son, George II. He died in exile later that year. 

• Greece 1956. King Constantine I. 

• Greece 1956. Queen Sophia.  

Alexander was King of Greece 1917-1920, when he was intoxicated by an animal biting him. In 1919 he had married the civil Greek citizen, Miss Aspasia Manos, who was never acknowledged as Queen of Greece. 

She was pregnant when her husband died, and after his death she gave birth to a girl, Princess Alexandra, who later married King Peter II of Yugoslavia.  Her daughter was the first Greek royal baby of fully Greek blood.  Greece 1956.  King Alexander. Aspasia Manos of Greece.

After King Alexander's death his elder brother George became king of Greece, under the name of George II, but was forced to abdicate in 1922. 

He was ousted in 1924 when a plebiscite abolished the monarchy, but was restored to the throne in 1935- when another plebiscite brought it back. In 1941, he took his government into exile because of the Nazi attack, but was restored to the throne in 1946.  He had married Elizabeth, who was the daughter of King Ferdinand of Romania, and sister of the later King Carol II of Romania. The couple had no children, and was later divorced. None of them remarried.

• Queen Elizabeth, sister of King Carol II of Romania. 

• Greece 1956.  King George II.  

Upon the death of King George II in 1947 his younger brother, Prince Paul, now became king of Greece under the name of King Paul I.  In 1938 he had married Princess Frederika of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (born 1917), who was a grandchild of the Danish Princess Thyra of Cumberland, the Danish King Christian IX's youngest daughter. He was a known as a decent monarch, but was unpopular in part because of anti-German sentiment directed against Queen Frederika. He died in 1964.

• Greece 1964.  King Paul I died early 1964. This stamp is part of a large commemorative set. 

• Greece 1938. Wedding between Princess Frederike and Crown Prince Paul. This stamp is particularly interesting because of the Danish national flag just beneath the crown. Princess Frederike's grand-mother was the Danish Princess Thyra, youngest daughter of King Christian IX, and Crown Prince Paul's grand-father was the Danish Prince Wilhelm who was elected the first king of the Hellenes as King George I. The stamp exists in three face values and three colours. 

• Greece 1956.  Queen Frederika.

The couple had three children, 

• Princess Sophia, * 1938, who became Queen of Spain by her marriage in 1962 to King Juan Carlos of Spain,   

• Prince Constantine, *1940, who later became King of Greece as King Constantine II, and

• Princess Irene, *1942, who remained unmarried.  

King Constantine II succeeded his father in 1964. A military coup occurred in April 1967, and he and his family left in self-imposed exile In December that same year. In 1974, a referendum, which some claim was fixed, formally abolished the monarchy. 

When Greece by a referendum in 1967 (again) became a republic,  King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie were exiled and now live in London as civil citizens. He and Queen Anne-Marie have five children: Princess Alexia, Crown Prince Pavlos, Prince Nikolaos, Princess Theodora, and Prince Philippos. 

• Greece 1956. Crown Prince Constantine (II) of Greece.

• Greece 1964. King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie 
  at their wedding in 1964. 

• Wedding photograph 1964 of the young couple.