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Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (20 January 1882(O.S.) - 3 December 1944), of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Oldenburg), was the son of George I (1845-1913), King of the Hellenes, and of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova (1851-1926) of Russia. Birth and early life Born in Athens, he was taught English by his caretakers as he grew up, but in conversations with his parents he refused to speak anything but Greek, which he was better at learning to speak than his siblings. Marriage and children Prince Andrew married Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg in a civil wedding on 6 October 1903 at Darmstadt. The following day two religious wedding services were performed: one Lutheran in the Evangelical Castle Church, and another Greek Orthodox in the Russian Chapel on the Mathildenhöhe. Princess Alice was a daughter of His Serene Highness Louis Prince of Battenberg (later 1st Marquess of Milford Haven) and Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of HRH Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. As such, Princess Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and in the line of succession to the British throne. Prince and Princess Andrew had five children: Princess Margarita 18 April 1905 24 April 1981 Married 1931, to HSH Gottfried, 9th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg; had issue. Princess Theodora 13 May 1906 16 October 1969 Married 1931, to HRH Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden; had issue. Princess Cecilie 22 June 1911 16 November 1937 Married 1931, to HRH Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine; had issue. Princess Sophie 26 June 1914 3 November 2001 Married firstly in 1930, to HH Prince Christoph of Hesse; had issue. Married secondly in 1946, to HRH Prince George Wilhelm of Hanover; had issue. Prince Philip 10 June 1921 Married 1947, to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom; had issue. Later titled Duke of Edinburgh. Early career He attended cadet school and staff college at Athens, but took no active part in the Balkan Wars during which he ran a field hospital. In 1914, Prince Andrew (like many European princes) held honorary military posts in both the German and Russian empires, as well as Prussian, Russian, Danish and Italian knighthoods. During World War I, he continued to visit Britain, despite veiled accusations in the British House of Commons that he was a German agent. Exile from Greece In 1917 he left Greece with his brother, King Constantine, who had abdicated in favour of his son after unsuccessfully attempting to keep Greece neutral in World War I. After his brother was restored to the throne of Greece four years later, Andrew was given command of the Second Army Corps during the Battle of the Sakarya, which effectively stalemated the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). Dissatisfaction with the progress of the war led to a coup d'état in 1922 during which Prince Andrew was arrested, court-martialled and found guilty of "disobeying an order" and "acting on his own initiative" during the battle the previous year. Although many defendants in the treason trials that followed the coup were shot, Andrew was banished for life and his family fled into exile aboard a British cruiser, HMS Calypso. In 1930, the Prince published his own version of events in a book entitled Towards Disaster: The Greek Army in Asia Minor in 1921. In 1936, the sentence was quashed by emergency laws, which also restored land and annuities to the King. Andrew returned to Greece for a brief visit that May. During their time in exile the family became more and more dispersed, Alice and her daughters eventually settling in Germany separated from Andrew, and Philip wound up being taken care of by his relatives in the United Kingdom. Andrew went to live in the South of France onboard a yacht with his lady friend, Countess Andrée de La Bigne. He died in the Hotel Metropole Hotel, Monte Carlo, Monaco of heart failure and arterial sclerosis. Alice became a Greek Orthodox nun in 1944 following her husband's death. She suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized in Switzerland, emerged and founded (in 1949) the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, an order of nuns tending the poor and sick on the island of Tinos in Greece. She sheltered Jewish families in Greece and was posthumously honored for heroism by Israel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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