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Alexander
Αλέξανδρος
King Alexanderc. 1917
King of the Hellenes
Reign11 June 1917 – 25 October 1920[a]
Inauguration11 June 1917
PredecessorConstantine I
SuccessorConstantine I
Prime Ministers
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Born(1893-08-01)1 August 1893
Tatoi Palace,Athens,Greece
Died25 October 1920(1920-10-25)(aged 27)
Athens, Greece
Burial29 October 1920
Royal Cemetery, Tatoi Palace, Greece
Spouse
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(m.1919)​
IssueAlexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia
HouseGlücksburg
FatherConstantine I of Greece
MotherSophia of Prussia
Signature
Military career
AllegianceGreeceKingdom of Greece
Service/branchHellenic Army
UnitArmy of Thessaly
Battles/warsBalkan Wars

Alexander(Greek:Αλέξανδρος,Aléxandros;1 August 1893 – 25 October 1920)[a]wasKing of Greecefrom 11 June 1917 until his death in 1920.

The second son ofKing Constantine I,Alexander was born in the summer palace ofTatoion the outskirts ofAthens.He succeeded his father in 1917, duringWorld War I,after theEntente Powersand the followers ofEleftherios Venizelospushed King Constantine and his eldest son,Crown Prince George,into exile. Having no real political experience, the new king was stripped of his powers by theVenizelistsand effectively imprisoned in his own palace. Venizelos, as prime minister, was the effective ruler with the support of the Entente. Though reduced to the status of apuppet king,Alexander supported Greek troops during their war against theOttoman EmpireandBulgaria.Under his reign, the territorial extent of Greece considerably increased, following the victory of the Entente and theirAlliesin the First World War and the early stages of theGreco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.

Alexander controversially married the commonerAspasia Manosin 1919, provoking a major scandal that forced the couple to leave Greece for several months. Soon after returning to Greece with his wife, Alexander was bitten by a domesticBarbary macaqueand died aged 27 ofsepsis.The sudden death of the sovereign led to questions over the monarchy's survival and contributed to the fall of the Venizelist regime. After ageneral electionand areferendum,Constantine I was restored to the throne.

Early life

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Alexander with four of his siblings in 1905. Clockwise from far left:Helen,George,Alexander,PaulandIrene.

Alexander was born atTatoi Palaceon 1 August 1893 (20 July in theJulian calendar), the second son ofCrown Prince Constantine of GreeceandPrincess Sophia of Prussia.He was related to royalty throughout Europe. His father was the eldest son ofKing George I of Greeceby his wife,Olga Constantinovna of Russia;his mother was the daughter ofFrederick III, German Emperor,andVictoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom.[1]His parents' cousins includedKing George V of the United KingdomandEmperor Nicholas II of Russia.Wilhelm II, German Emperor,was his maternal uncle.[2]

Alexander's early life alternated between theRoyal PalaceinAthens,and Tatoi Palace in the city's suburbs. With his parents he undertook several trips abroad and regularly visitedSchloss Friedrichshof,the home of his maternal grandmother, who had a particular affection for her Greek grandson.[3]

Though he was very close to his younger sisterHelen,Alexander was less warm towards his elder brother,George,with whom he had little in common.[4]While George was a serious and thoughtful child, Alexander was mischievous and extroverted; he smoked cigarettes made from blotting paper, set fire to thegames roomin the palace, and recklessly lost control of a toy cart in which he and his younger brotherPaulwere rolling down a hill, tipping his toddler brother a distance of 6 ft (1.8 m) intobrambles.[3]

Military career

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Alexander was third in line to the throne, after his father and elder brother. His education was expensive and carefully planned, but while George spent part of his military training in Germany,[5]Alexander was educated in Greece. He joined the prestigiousHellenic Military Academy,where several of his uncles had previously studied and where he made himself known more for his mechanical skills than for his intellectual capacity.[4]He was passionate about cars and motors, and was one of the first Greeks to acquire an automobile.[6]

Alexander distinguished himself in combat during theBalkan Warsof 1912–13.[4]As a young officer, he was stationed, along with his elder brother, in the field staff of his father; and he accompanied the latter at the head of theArmy of Thessalyduring the capture ofThessalonikiin 1912.[7]King George I was assassinated in Thessaloniki soon afterwards on 18 March 1913, and Alexander's father ascended the throne as Constantine I.[8]

Courtship of Aspasia Manos

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In 1915, at a party held in Athens by court marshal TheodoreYpsilantis,Alexander became re-acquainted with one of his childhood friends,Aspasia Manos.She had just returned from education in France and Switzerland, and was reckoned as very beautiful by her acquaintances.[9]

She was the daughter of Constantine'sMaster of the Horse,[10]Colonel Petros Manos, and his wife Maria Argyropoulos. The 21-year-old Alexander was smitten,[9]and was so determined to seduce her that he followed her to the island ofSpetseswhere she holidayed that year. Initially, Aspasia was resistant to his charm; although considered very handsome by his contemporaries, Alexander had a reputation as a ladies' man from numerous past liaisons.[9]

Despite this, he finally won her over, and the couple were engaged in secret. However, for King Constantine I, Queen Sophia and much of European society of the time, it was inconceivable for a royal prince to marry someone of a different social rank.[11]

World War I

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Alexander's father,Constantine I,in the uniform of a German field marshal,c. 1913

During World War I, Constantine I followed a formal policy of neutrality, yet he was openly benevolent towardsGermany,which was fighting alongsideAustria-Hungary,Bulgariaand theOttoman Empireagainst theTriple EntenteofRussia,FranceandBritain.Constantine was the brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and had also become something of aGermanophilefollowing his military training inPrussia.His pro-German attitude provoked a split between the monarch and the prime minister,Eleftherios Venizelos,who wanted to support the Entente in the hope of expanding Greek territory to incorporate the Greek minorities in the Ottoman Empire and theBalkans.Protected by the countries of the Entente, particularly France, in 1916 Venizelos formed aparallel government to that of the king.[12]

Parts of Greece were occupied by the Allied Entente forces, but Constantine I refused to modify his policy and faced increasingly open opposition from the Entente and theVenizelists.In July 1916, an arson attack ravaged Tatoi Palace and the royal family barely escaped the flames; Alexander was not injured but his mother narrowly savedPrincess Katherineby carrying her through the woods for more than 2 km (1.2 mi). Among the palace personnel and firefighters who arrived to deal with the blaze, sixteen people were killed.[13]

Finally on 10 June 1917,Charles Jonnart,the Entente's High Commissioner in Greece, ordered King Constantine to give up his power.[14]On the threat of Entente forces landing inPiraeus,the king conceded and agreed to go into self-exile, though without officially abdicating his crown. The Allies, while determined to be rid of Constantine, did not wish to create a Greek republic, and sought to replace the king with another member of the royal family. Crown Prince George, who was the natural heir, was ruled out by the Allies because they thought him too pro-German, like his father.[15]Instead, they considered installing Constantine's brother (and Alexander's uncle),Prince George,[16]but he had tired of public life during his difficult tenure asHigh CommissionerofCretebetween 1901 and 1905; above all, he sought to remain loyal to his brother, and categorically refused to take the throne.[17]As a result, Constantine's second son, Prince Alexander, was chosen to become the new monarch.[15]

Reign

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Accession

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The dismissal of Constantine was not unanimously supported by the Entente powers; while France and Britain did nothing to stop Jonnart's actions, theRussian provisional governmentofficially protested to Paris.[18]Petrograddemanded that Alexander should not receive the title of king but only that ofregent,so as to preserve the rights of the deposed sovereign and the Crown Prince. Russia's protests were brushed aside, and Alexander ascended the Greek throne.[19]

Eleftherios Venizelos,Greek revolutionary and prime minister,c. 1919

Alexander swore the oath of loyalty to theGreek constitutionon the afternoon of 11 June 1917 in the ballroom of the Royal Palace. Apart from theArchbishop of Athens,Theocletus I, who administered the oath, only King Constantine I, Crown Prince George and the king's prime minister,Alexandros Zaimis,attended.[20]There were no festivities.[15]The 23-year-old Alexander had a broken voice and tears in his eyes as he made the solemn declaration.[20]He knew that the Entente and the Venizelists would hold real power and that neither his father nor his brother had renounced their claims to the throne. Constantine had informed his son that he should consider himself a regent, rather than a true monarch.[15]

In the evening, after the ceremony, the royal family decided to leave their palace in Athens forTatoi,but city residents opposed the exile of their sovereign and crowds formed outside the palace to prevent Constantine and his family from leaving. On 12 June, the former king and his family escaped undetected from their residence by feigning departure from one gate while exiting through another.[21]At Tatoi, Constantine again impressed upon Alexander that he held the crown in trust only.[22]It was the last time that Alexander would be in direct contact with his family.[6]The next day, Constantine, Sophia and all of their children except Alexander arrived at the small port ofOroposand set off into exile.[23]

Puppet king

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With his parents and siblings in exile, Alexander found himself isolated. The royals remained unpopular with the Venizelists, and Entente representatives advised the king's aunts and uncles, particularlyPrince Nicholas,to leave. Eventually, they all followed Constantine into exile.[24]Royal household staff were gradually replaced by enemies of the former king, and Alexander's allies were either imprisoned or distanced from him. Portraits of the royal family were removed from public buildings, and Alexander's new ministers openly called him the "son of a traitor".[25]

Alexander (centre) shaking hands with prince-regentAlexander of Serbiaon the Macedonian Front, May 1918

On 26 June 1917, the king was forced to name Eleftherios Venizelos as head of the government. Despite promises given by the Entente on Constantine's departure, the previous prime minister, Zaimis, was effectively forced to resign as Venizelos returned to Athens.[6]Alexander immediately opposed his new prime minister's views and, annoyed by the king's rebuffs, Venizelos threatened to remove him and set up a regency council in the name of Alexander's brother Prince Paul, then still a minor. The Entente powers intervened and asked Venizelos to back down, allowing Alexander to retain the crown.[26]Spied on day and night by the prime minister's supporters, the monarch quickly became a prisoner in his own palace, and his orders went ignored.[25]

Alexander had no experience in affairs of state. However, he was determined to make the best of a difficult situation and to represent his father as best he could.[25]Adopting an air of cool indifference to the government, he rarely made the effort to read official documents before herubber-stampedthem.[27]His functions were limited, and amounted to visiting theMacedonian frontto support the morale of the Greek and Allied troops. Since Venizelos's return to power, Athens was at war with theCentral Powers,and Greek soldiers battled those of Bulgaria in the north.[28]

Greek expansion

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Territorial expansion of Greece between 1832 and 1947

By the end of World War I, Greece had grown beyond its 1914 borders, and thetreaties of Neuilly(1919) andSèvres(1920) confirmed the Greek territorial conquests. The majority ofThrace(previously split between Bulgaria and Turkey) and severalAegean Islands(such asImbrosandTenedos) became part of Greece, and the region ofSmyrna,inIonia,was placed under Greekmandate.[29]Alexander's kingdom increased in size by around a third. In Paris, Venizelos took part in thepeace negotiationswith the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Upon his return to Greece in August 1920, Venizelos received alaurel crownfrom the king for his work in support ofpanhellenism.[30]

Despite their territorial gains following the Paris Peace Conference, the Greeks still hoped to achieve theMegali Ideaand annexConstantinopleand larger areas of OttomanAsia Minor;they invadedAnatoliabeyond Smyrna and sought to takeAnkara,with the aim of destroying the Turkish resistance led byMustafa Kemal(later known as Atatürk).[31]Thus began theGreco-Turkish War (1919–1922).Although Alexander's reign saw success after success for the Greek armies, it was eventually Atatürk's revolutionary forces that obtained victory in 1922, negating the gains made under Alexander.[b]

Marriage

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Controversy

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On 12 June 1917, the day after his accession, Alexander revealed his liaison with Aspasia Manos to his father and asked for his permission to marry her. Constantine was reluctant to let his son marry a non-royal, and demanded that Alexander wait until the end of the war before considering the engagement, to which Alexander agreed.[33]In the intervening months, Alexander increasingly resented his separation from his family. His regular letters to his parents were intercepted by the government and confiscated.[6]Alexander's only source of comfort was Aspasia, and he decided to marry her despite his father's request.[34]

Alexander enteringAdrianople,1920

The ruling dynasty of Greece (theHouse of Glücksburg) was of German-Danish origin, and Constantine and Sophia were seen as far too German by the Venizelists, but even though the marriage of the king to a Greek presented an opportunity to Hellenize the royal family, and counter criticisms that it was a foreign institution, both Venizelists and Constantinists opposed the match. The Venizelists feared it would give Alexander a means to communicate with his exiled family through Colonel Manos and both sides of the political divide were unhappy at the king marrying a commoner.[35]Although Venizelos was a friend of Petros Manos,[9]the prime minister warned the king that marrying her would be unpopular in the eyes of the people.[34][c]

WhenPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,visited Athens in March 1918, to confer theOrder of the Bathupon the king, Alexander feared that a marriage between him andPrincess Mary of the United Kingdomwould be discussed as part of an attempt to consolidate the relationship between Greece and Britain. To Alexander's relief, Arthur asked to meet Aspasia, and declared that, if he were younger, he would have sought to marry her himself.[34]For the foreign powers, and particularly the British ambassador, the marriage was seen as positive.[11]The British authorities feared that Alexander would abdicate in order to marry Aspasia if the wedding was blocked, and they wanted to avoid Greece becoming a republic in case it led to instability or an increase in French influence at their expense.[35]

Alexander's parents were not so happy about the match. Sophia disapproved of her son marrying a commoner, while Constantine wanted a delay but was prepared to be his son's best man if Alexander would be patient.[34]Alexander visited Paris at the end of 1918, raising hopes among his family that they would be able to contact him once he was outside Greece. When Queen Sophia attempted to telephone her son in his Parisian hotel, a minister intercepted the call and informed her that "His Majesty is sorry, but he cannot respond to the telephone".[10]He was not even informed that she had called.[10]

Public scandal

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Aspasia Manosand King Alexander depicted at the wheel of hisPackardin a contemporarylithograph

With the help of Aspasia's brother-in-law, Christo Zalocostas, and after three unsuccessful attempts, the couple eventually married in secret before a royal chaplain,ArchimandriteZacharistas, on the evening of 17 November 1919.[11]After the ceremony, the archimandrite was sworn to silence but soon broke his promise by confessing to the Archbishop of Athens,Meletios Metaxakis.[38]According to the Greek constitution, members of the royal family had to obtain permission to marry from both the sovereign and the head of theGreek Orthodox Church.[39]By marrying Aspasia without the permission of the Archbishop, Alexander caused a major scandal.[28]

Despite his disapproval of the union, Venizelos allowed Aspasia and her mother to move into the Royal Palace on condition that the marriage remain secret.[11]The information leaked, however, and to escape public opprobrium Aspasia was forced to leave Greece. She fled to Rome, and then to Paris, where Alexander was allowed to join her, six months later, on condition that they not attend official functions together.[28]On their Parisian honeymoon, while motoring nearFontainebleau,the couple witnessed a serious car crash in which Count de Kergariou's chauffeur lost control of his master's vehicle. Alexander avoided the count's car, which swerved and hit a tree. The king drove the injured to hospital in his own car,[40]while Aspasia, who had trained as a nurse during World War I, rendered first aid. The count was seriously injured and died shortly afterward, after having both legs amputated.[41][d]

The government allowed the couple to return to Greece in mid-1920. Although their marriage was legalized, Aspasia was not recognized as queen, but was instead known as "Madame Manos".[28]At first, she stayed at her sister's house in the Greek capital before transferring to Tatoi,[44]and it was during this period that she became pregnant with Alexander's child.[28]

Alexander visited the newly acquired territories ofWest Thrace,and on 8 July 1920 the new name for the region's main town—Alexandroupolis(meaning "city of Alexander" in Greek)—was announced in the king's presence. The city's previous name of Dedeagatch was considered too Turkish.[45]On 7 September, Venizelos, counting on a surge of support in the wake of the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres and the expansion of Greek territory, announced a general election for early November.[46]

Death

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Alexander's mother,Queen Sophia of Greece,byGeorgios Jakobides,1915

On 2 October 1920, Alexander was injured while walking through the grounds of the Tatoi estate. A domesticBarbary macaquebelonging to the steward of the palace's grapevines attacked or was attacked by the king'sGerman Shepherd dog,Fritz,[e]and Alexander attempted to separate the two animals. As he did so, another monkey attacked Alexander and bit him deeply on the leg and torso. Eventually servants arrived and chased away the monkeys,[47]and the king's wounds were promptly cleaned and dressed but notcauterized.He did not consider the incident serious and asked that it not be publicized.[48]

That evening, his wounds became infected; he developed a strong fever andsepsisset in. His doctors considered amputating his leg, but none wished to take responsibility for so drastic an act.[49]On 19 October, he becamedeliriousand called out for his mother, but the Greek government refused to allow her to re-enter the country from exile in Switzerland, despite her own protestations. Finally, thequeen dowager,Olga,George I's widow and Alexander's grandmother, was allowed to return alone to Athens to tend to the king. She was delayed by rough waters, however, and by the time she arrived, Alexander had already died ofsepsistwelve hours previously at a little after 4 p.m. on 25 October 1920.[50]The other members of the royal family received the news by telegram that night.[f]

Two days later, Alexander's body was conveyed toAthens Cathedral,where it lay in state until his funeral on 29 October. Once again, the royal family were refused permission to return to Greece, and Queen Olga was the only member who attended.[52]Foreign powers were represented by thePrince Regent of Serbiawith his sisterPrincess Helenwife ofJohn Constantinovich of Russia,theCrown Prince of Swedenwith his unclePrince Eugene, Duke of Nericia,and Rear-AdmiralsSir George Hopeof the United Kingdom and Dumesnil of France, as well as members of the Athens diplomatic corps.[53]

After the cathedral service, Alexander's body was interred on the grounds of the royal estate at Tatoi.[52]The Greek royal family never regarded Alexander's reign as fully legitimate. In the royal cemetery, while other monarchs are given the inscription "King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark", Alexander's reads "Alexander, son of the King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark. He ruled in the place of his father from 14 June 1917 to 25 October 1920."[52]According to Alexander's favorite sister, Queen Helen of Romania, this feeling of illegitimacy was also shared by Alexander himself, a sentiment that helps explain his mésalliance with Aspasia Manos.[34]

Legacy

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Alexander's paternal grandmother,Queen Olga of Greece,byPhilip Alexius de László,1914. She acted as regent between his death and the restoration of his father.

Alexander's death raised questions about the succession to the throne as well as the nature of the Greek regime. As the king had contracted an unequal marriage,[g]his descendants were not in the line of succession.[h]TheHellenic Parliamentdemanded that Constantine I and Crown Prince George be excluded from the succession but sought to preserve the monarchy by selecting another member of the royal house as the new sovereign. On 29 October 1920, the Greek minister in Berne, acting under the direction of the Greek authorities, offered the throne to Alexander's younger brother, Prince Paul.[56]Paul, however, refused to become king while his father and elder brother were alive, insisting that neither of them had renounced their rights to the throne and that he therefore could never legitimately wear the crown.[57]

The throne remained vacant and thelegislative elections of 1920turned into an open conflict between the Venizelists, who favored republicanism, and the supporters of the ex-King Constantine.[58]On 14 November 1920, with the war with Turkey dragging on, the monarchists won, andDimitrios Rallisbecame prime minister; Venizelos (who lost his own parliamentary seat) chose to leave Greece in self-exile. Rallis asked Queen Olga to become regent until Constantine's return.[59]

Under the restored King Constantine I, whose return was endorsed overwhelmingly in areferendum,Greece went on to lose the Greco–Turkish War with heavy military and civilian casualties. The territory gained on the Turkish mainland during Alexander's reign was lost. Alexander's death in the midst of an election campaign helped destabilize the Venizelos regime, and the resultant loss of Allied support contributed to the failure of Greece's territorial ambitions.[60]Winston Churchillwrote, "it is perhaps no exaggeration to remark that a quarter of a million persons died of this monkey's bite."[61]

Issue

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Alexander's daughter by Aspasia Manos,Alexandra(1921–1993), was born five months after his death. Initially, the government took the line that since Alexander had married Aspasia without the permission of his father or the church, his marriage was illegal and his posthumous daughter was illegitimate. However, in July 1922, Parliament passed a law which allowed the King to recognize royal marriages retroactively on a non-dynastic basis.[62]That September,[1]Constantine—at Sophia's insistence—recognized his son's marriage to Aspasia and granted her the style of "Princess Alexander".[63]Her daughter (Constantine I's granddaughter) was legitimized as a princess of Greece and Denmark, and later married KingPeter II of Yugoslaviain London in 1944. They had one child:Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.[64]

Ancestry

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See also:Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark

Footnotes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^abDates in this article are in theNew StyleGregorian calendar.The Old StyleJulian calendarwas used in Greece throughout Alexander's lifetime.
  2. ^TheTreaty of Lausannein 1923 redrew the boundary between Turkey and Greece back in favor of Turkey.[32]
  3. ^According toPrince Peter of Greece and Denmark,Venizelos "encouraged the marriage [of Alexander and Aspasia] to acquire political advantage for himself and his party by bringing the royal family thus into disrepute."[36]However,Irene Noel Bakertold her father-in-law, British MPJoseph Allen Baker,that Venizelos was "personally in favour of the marriage [but] is sincerely convinced that it will be extremely unpopular".[37]
  4. ^Count Alain de Kergariou (died 29 May 1920 aged 38) was an officer in theFrench Air Serviceduring World War I.[42]He was motoring with his wife and two stepsons, the princes de Tonnay-Charente, when the accident happened. The countess was bruised but otherwise uninjured; one of her sons lost an arm.[43]
  5. ^The dog had been found in an enemy trench during World War I by a British officer, who had presented it to Alexander as a gift.[28]
  6. ^Prince Nicolasreceived the news first but did not communicate it to Alexander's parents until the next morning because he did not wish to disturb their rest.[51]
  7. ^Here "unequal marriage" refers to the union between a person of royal rank with an individual of a "lower" social status. This is similar to themorganatic marriagesof other European countries, though this concept did not exist in Greece.[54]
  8. ^The restored King Constantine did not recognize Alexander's only child,Alexandra,as a member of the House of Greece until July 1922. However, as the Greek succession was governed bySalic lawuntil the beginning of the reign ofConstantine II,she would not have been eligible as a female anyway.[55]

References

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  1. ^abMontgomery-Massingberd, p. 327.
  2. ^Carter, p. xi
  3. ^abVan der Kiste, p. 62.
  4. ^abcSáinz de Medrano, p. 174.
  5. ^Van der Kiste, p. 83.
  6. ^abcdVan der Kiste, p. 113.
  7. ^Van der Kiste, p. 72.
  8. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 74–75.
  9. ^abcdSáinz de Medrano, p. 176.
  10. ^abcVan der Kiste, p. 117.
  11. ^abcdSáinz de Medrano, p. 177.
  12. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 89–101.
  13. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 96–98.
  14. ^Van der Kiste, p. 106.
  15. ^abcdVan der Kiste, p. 107.
  16. ^Bertin, pp. 215, 220.
  17. ^Bertin, p. 220.
  18. ^Driault and Lhéritier, pp. 305–307.
  19. ^Driault and Lhéritier, p. 306.
  20. ^abVan der Kiste, pp. 107–108.
  21. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 108–109.
  22. ^Van der Kiste, p. 109.
  23. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 110–111.
  24. ^Van der Kiste, p. 115.
  25. ^abcVan der Kiste, p. 112.
  26. ^Driault and Lhéritier, p. 312.
  27. ^Van der Kiste, p. 114.
  28. ^abcdefVan der Kiste, p. 119.
  29. ^Driault and Lhéritier, pp. 382–384.
  30. ^Driault and Lhéritier, p. 387.
  31. ^Driault and Lhéritier, p. 386.
  32. ^Driault and Lhéritier, pp. 433–434.
  33. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 117–118.
  34. ^abcdeVan der Kiste, p. 118.
  35. ^abLlewellyn Smith, p. 136.
  36. ^Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, "Comments by HRH Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark" in: Fleming, Patricia H. (June 1973). "The Politics of Marriage Among Non-Catholic European Royalty".Current Anthropology,vol. 14, no. 3, p. 246.JSTOR2740765
  37. ^Quoted in Llewellyn Smith, p. 357
  38. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 118–119.
  39. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 120–121.
  40. ^"The King in a Motor Accident",The Times,29 May 1920, p. 13.
  41. ^"Narrow Escape While Motoring",The Argus,31 May 1920, p. 8.
  42. ^"Count de Kergariou Dead",The Times,31 May 1920, p. 13.
  43. ^"Greek King in Motor Smash",The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser,10 July 1920, p. 12.
  44. ^Sáinz de Medrano, p. 178.
  45. ^Kargakos, pp. 325–331
  46. ^Llewellyn Smith, p. 135.
  47. ^"Monkey Bites King of Greece",The Portsmouth Herald,14 October 1920, p. 1; Van der Kiste, p. 122.
  48. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 122–123.
  49. ^Van der Kiste, p. 123.
  50. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 123–124.
  51. ^Van der Kiste, p. 124.
  52. ^abcVan der Kiste, p. 125.
  53. ^"Royal Funeral in Athens",The Times,2 November 1920, p. 11.
  54. ^Van der Kiste, p. 120.
  55. ^Sáinz de Medrano, pp. 180, 238, 402.
  56. ^Van der Kiste, pp. 125–126.
  57. ^Llewellyn Smith, p. 139; Van der Kiste, p. 126.
  58. ^Llewellyn Smith, pp. 144–148; Van der Kiste, p. 126.
  59. ^Van der Kiste, p. 126.
  60. ^Fry, Goldstein and Langhorne, p. 201; Goldstein, p. 49.
  61. ^Churchill, p. 409, quoted (for example) in Pentzopoulos, p. 39.
  62. ^Diesbach,p. 225.
  63. ^Van der Kiste, p. 132.
  64. ^Montgomery-Massingberd, pp. 327, 536, 544.
  65. ^Maclagan and Louda, pp. 34, 51–53, 187, 275–283.

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  • Van der Kiste, John (1994).Kings of the Hellenes: The Greek Kings, 1863–1974.Dover, New Hampshire and Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing.ISBN0-7509-0525-5.

Further reading

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  • Alexandra of Yugoslavia(1956).For a King's Love.London: Oldhams Press.OCLC2234245.
  • Tourtchine, Jean-Fred (December 1998). "Alexandre I".Le Royaume des Deux-Siciles volume II – Le Royaume de Grèce[The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Volume II – The Kingdom of Greece]. Les Manuscrits du Cèdre. Dictionnaire historique et généalogique (in French). Paris: Cercle d'Études des Dynasties Royales Européennes. pp. 165–167.ISSN0993-3964.
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Born:1 August 1893Died:25 October 1920
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11 June 1917 – 25 October 1920 		Succeeded by
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