Prince Andrew … Of GreeceAge: 621882–1944
- Name
- Prince Andrew … Of Greece
- Given names
- Andrew
- Name prefix
- Prince
- Name suffix
- Of Greece
| Birth | 1882 36 31 |
| Australian History | 1882 Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 12 months) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 5) Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne. |
| Birth of a brother | 1888 (Age 6)
younger brother -
Christopher Oldenburg
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| Marriage of a brother | Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece - View family 27 October 1889 (Age 7) Athens, Greece
elder brother -
Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
sister-in-law -
Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia
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| Marriage of a sister | Princess Alexandra … Of Greece - View family 1889 (Age 7)
brother-in-law -
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov
elder sister -
Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 7) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Australian History | 1890 (Age 8) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Death of a sister | 1891 (Age 9)
elder sister -
Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1891 (Age 9) Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted. Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status Note: A severe depression hits Australia |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 1892 (Age 10)
maternal grandfather -
Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievitch … Of Russia
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| Australian History | 1892 (Age 10) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 11) Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
| Australian History | 1894 (Age 12) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 13) Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
| Australian History | 1896 (Age 14) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 15) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 29 September 1898 (Age 16) Bernstorff, Germany
paternal grandmother -
Princess Louise … Of Hesse-Cassel
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| Australian History | 1898 (Age 16) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
| Australian History | 1899 (Age 17) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
| Marriage of a sister | Mary … - View family 1900 (Age 18)
brother-in-law -
George Romanov
elder sister -
Mary …
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 18) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 19) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
| Marriage of a brother | Prince Nicholas … Of Greece - View family 1902 (Age 20)
elder brother -
Prince Nicholas … Of Greece
sister-in-law -
Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna Romanov Of Russia
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 20) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
| Marriage | Princess Alice … Of Battenberg - View family 1903 (Age 21) |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 21) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1904 (Age 22) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1905 (Age 23)
daughter -
Margarita Mountbatten
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| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1906 (Age 24)
daughter -
Theodora Mountbatten
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| Death of a paternal grandfather | 29 January 1906 (Age 24) Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
paternal grandfather -
Christian IX … King Of Denmark
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 24) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage of a brother | George Oldenburg - View family 1907 (Age 25)
elder brother -
George Oldenburg
sister-in-law -
Mary …
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 26) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 27) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 28) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1911 (Age 29)
daughter -
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
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| Death of a maternal grandmother | 1911 (Age 29)
maternal grandmother -
Princess Elizabeth Alexandra … Of Saxe
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| Australian History | 1911 (Age 29) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 30) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Death of a father | 18 March 1913 (Age 31) Salonika, Greece |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 31) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 31) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | 1914 (Age 32)
daughter -
Sophia …
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| Australian History | 1914 (Age 32) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 33) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 34) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 35) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 36) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 37) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Marriage of a brother | Christopher Oldenburg - View family 1920 (Age 38)
younger brother -
Christopher Oldenburg
sister-in-law -
Anastasia Stewart
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| Australian History | 1920 (Age 38) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Birth of a son #5 | 10 June 1921 (Age 39) Isle Of Kerkira, Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
son -
Philip Mountbatten
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| Australian History | 1921 (Age 39) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Marriage of a sister | Mary … - View family 1922 (Age 40)
brother-in-law -
Perikles Joannides …
elder sister -
Mary …
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| Australian History | 1922 (Age 40) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Death of a brother | 11 January 1923 (Age 41) Palermo, Italy
elder brother -
Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1923 (Age 41) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a mother | 1926 (Age 44)
mother -
Princess Olga Constantinovna …
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 44) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 45) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 46) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Marriage of a brother | Christopher Oldenburg - View family 1929 (Age 47)
younger brother -
Christopher Oldenburg
sister-in-law -
Francis … Of Guise
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| Australian History | 1929 (Age 47) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Marriage of a daughter | Sophia … - View family 1930 (Age 48)
son-in-law -
Prince Christopher … Of Hesse
daughter -
Sophia …
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| Australian History | 1930 (Age 48) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 1931 (Age 49)
grandson -
Louis …
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| Marriage of a daughter | Margarita Mountbatten - View family 1931 (Age 49)
son-in-law -
Prince Gottfried … Of Hohenlohe-Lagenburg
daughter -
Margarita Mountbatten
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| Marriage of a daughter | Theodora Mountbatten - View family 1931 (Age 49)
son-in-law -
Berthold … Of Baden Margrave
daughter -
Theodora Mountbatten
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| Marriage of a daughter | Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece - View family 1931 (Age 49)
son-in-law -
Grand Duke George Donatus … Of Hesse
daughter -
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1931 (Age 49) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 50) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 1933 (Age 51)
grandson -
Alexander …
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 51) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Birth of a granddaughter #3 | 1936 (Age 54)
granddaughter -
Joanna …
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| Burial of a brother | November 1936 (Age 54) Tatoi, Near Athens, Greece
elder brother -
Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 54) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Death of a grandson | 1937 (Age 55)
grandson -
Louis …
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| Death of a grandson | 1937 (Age 55)
grandson -
Alexander …
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| Death of a daughter | 1937 (Age 55)
daughter -
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1937 (Age 55) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Death of a brother | 1938 (Age 56)
elder brother -
Prince Nicholas … Of Greece
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| Australian History | 1938 (Age 56) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Death of a granddaughter | 1939 (Age 57)
granddaughter -
Joanna …
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| Australian History | 1939 (Age 57) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Death of a sister | 1940 (Age 58)
elder sister -
Mary …
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| Death of a brother | 1940 (Age 58)
younger brother -
Christopher Oldenburg
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| Australian History | 1940 (Age 58) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 59) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 60) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 61) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (on the date of death) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Death | 1944 (Age 62) |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Birth 24 December 1845 27 28 Copenhagen, Denmark Death 18 March 1913 (Age 67) Salonika, Greece Loading...
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5 years mother |
Princess Olga Constantinovna …
Birth 1851 24 21 Death 1926 (Age 75) Loading...
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Marriage: 1867 |
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19 months #1 elder brother |
Constantine I Oldenburg King Of Greece
Birth 2 August 1868 22 17 Athens, Greece Death 11 January 1923 (Age 54) Palermo, Italy Loading...
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5 months #2 elder brother |
George Oldenburg
Birth 1869 23 18 Death 1957 (Age 88) Loading...
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1 year #3 elder sister |
Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
Birth 1870 24 19 Death 1891 (Age 21) Loading...
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2 years #4 elder brother |
Prince Nicholas … Of Greece
Birth 1872 26 21 Death 1938 (Age 66) Loading...
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4 years #5 elder sister |
Mary …
Birth 1876 30 25 Death 1940 (Age 64) Loading...
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6 years #6 himself |
Prince Andrew … Of Greece
Birth 1882 36 31 Death 1944 (Age 62) Loading...
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6 years #7 younger brother |
Christopher Oldenburg
Birth 1888 42 37 Death 1940 (Age 52) Loading...
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| #8 sister |
Olga …
Death yes Loading...
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| Family with Princess Alice … Of Battenberg - View family |
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Prince Andrew … Of Greece
Birth 1882 36 31 Death 1944 (Age 62) Loading...
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3 years wife |
Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
Birth 1885 31 22 Death about 1969 (Age 84) Buckingham, Palace, London, England Loading...
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Marriage: 1903 |
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2 years #1 daughter |
Margarita Mountbatten
Birth 1905 23 20 Death 1981 (Age 76) Loading...
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1 year #2 daughter |
Theodora Mountbatten
Birth 1906 24 21 Death 1960 (Age 54) Loading...
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5 years #3 daughter |
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
Birth 1911 29 26 Death 1937 (Age 26) Loading...
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3 years #4 daughter |
Sophia …
Birth 1914 32 29 Death yes Loading...
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7 years #5 son |
Philip Mountbatten
Birth 10 June 1921 39 36 Isle Of Kerkira, Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece Death yes Loading...
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Prince Andrew … Of Greece has 30 first cousins recorded
Father's family (26)
Parents Frederick VIII … King Of Denmark + Louise … Of Sweden
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
Parents Alexander III Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia + Tsarina Dagmar "Marie" … Of Denmark
Parents Duke Ernest Augustus Hanover Of Cumberland + Princess Thyra … Of Denmark
Mother's family (4)
Parents Nicholas Romanov + Nadezhda Dreyer
Parents Constantine Romanov + Elizabeth …
Extra information
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