#princess nicholas of greece

[empress-alexandra]

Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, 1910s.

[februaryfrost]

Princess Alice of Battenberg and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. About 1901.

Nicholas was married to Alexandra, who was the youngest sister of Alice's mother, Victoria. Alexandra and Victoria were born Princesses of Hesse and by Rhine and granddaughters of Queen Victoria via her second daughter, Alice.

In 1903 Alice would marry Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a cousin of Nicholas' and her last born child would become Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Alice was the grandmother of King Charles III.

Though congenitally deaf, Alice learned to read lips and speak English and German, and also later Greek, the language of her new homeland.

[royalty-nobility]

The Marriage of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 26th November 1894

Artist: Laurits Regner Tuxen (Danish, 1853-1927)

Date: 1895-1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Description

The wedding between Nicholas II and Princess Alix of Hesse took place in the Imperial Chapel of the Winter Palace on 26 November 1894, just over twenty years after the marriage of the Tsar's aunt in the same chapel. The wedding was announced in April that year and was to take place on the Empress Marie Feodorovna's birthday. Tragically, Emperor Alexander III died of kidney disease on 1 November, and the court was thrown into mourning with the exception of the day of the marriage.

The royal couple stand, holding lighted candles, whilst the Metropolitan Archbishop of St Petersburg, Mgr Palladius, makes the sign of the cross before them. Ella, (Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna), writing to her grandmother, Queen Victoria, described her sister's dress as 'embroidered silver cloth Russian court dress & very pretty', helpfully including a sketch. She added that 'Alix being tall will look perfectly lovely'. She wears a kokoshnik tiara and a small diamond crown, beneath which is a wreath of orange blossom, her imperial gold-embroidered mantle is lined with ermine. The Tsar is dressed in the uniform of a Hussar. In the background George I, King of Greece stands to the left of Christian IX, King of Denmark, who looks towards his daughter, the Dowager Empress; the Princess of Wales, and the Queen of Greece. The Prince of Wales can be seen dressed in the uniform of Russian Dragoons to the right of the portrait.

[krasivaa]

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King George I of Greece, Prince Nicholas , Prince Constantine, Princess Alexandra, Prince George and Queen Olga in 1877. Garden scene painted on backdrop. 🫶

[postcard-from-the-past]

Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, later Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark

Greek vintage postcard

[ykzzr]

Tsesarevich Nicholas, Prince George of Wales, Princess Sophia of Prussia, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece and Prince George of Greece and Denmark 1890s.

[the-last-tsar]

Nicholas II with Princess Maria of Greece and Grand Duke George Milhailovich.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Candid moments between Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark aka “Greek Nicky” with his 1st cousin once removed, Princess Elisabeth “Ella” of Hesse, Wolfsgarten, Darmstadt, 1899

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Rare photo of the 5 eldest children of King George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, 1880(?)

from left to right: George, Marie “Minnie”, Constantine, Nicholas, and Alexandra

[loiladadiani]

THE BICYCLE WAS ALL THE RAGE, SO THE ROYALS HAD TO GET INTO CYCLING

On the photo above, from left to right: Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Emperor Nicholas II, “Greek Georgie” (Prince George of Greece), “Greek Nicky” (Prince Nicholas of Greece) and Prince Christopher of Denmark. These guys really dressed up to go riding…neck tie, hat…

On the photo below, from left to right, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich…the jock of the group as usual, notice the handle of his bike; Cousin Victoria of Wales with an incredibly small waist, Queen Maud and her handsome and intelligent husband Hakoon VII.

[bargainsleuthbooks]

George and Marina: Duke and Duchess of Kent by Christopher Warwick #HouseofWindsor #Audiobook #BookReview

The #AudiblePlus catalog had a few books on the #royalfamily that I had to check out. One was about the #DukeandDuchessofKent, #QueenElizabethII aunt and uncle. #PrinceGeorge and #PrincessMarina both came from royal houses. #Audiobook #BookReview

For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy’s, indeed, high society’s, most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons they are still remembered.As a young man,…

[heavyarethecrowns]

Prince Nicholas & Grand Duchess Elena

[loiladadiani]

Wonderful dry point work by Nicholas Panagiotti Zarokilli

Greek Princesses (and Romanov descendants), Olga, Elizabeth and Marina and their father Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark.  They were the daughters of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna. Their paternal grandparents were King George I of Greece and Queen Olga Konstantinovna. Their maternal grandparents were Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder.  During their various periods of exile from Greece, “Greek Nicky” was able to earn money for the family by selling his artwork. Elizabeth and Marina inherited their father’s artistic talent; Marina would sign her work as Marina de Grece or “MG,” and then after her marriage as “MK” for Marina of Kent. 

[elsalouisa]

"...Grand Duchess Helene— Princess Nicholas of Greece—was most attractive. She had a typically Russian nose, lovely mysterious eyes of a strange yellowish-hazel, level eyebrows, and a friste, interesting smile, full of passion and melancholy, but strangely charming. She had the same brushed-up ondulé hair as the rest, but her dress was much more chic than most, though all were well made. She said the kindest things about my books and seemed to know them well, which flattered me greatly".

Elinor Glyn "Romantic adventure"

[thepaleys]

Through her visits to her mother's family, Alexandra was no stranger to Russia or for that matter to the Orthodox religion, in which she too had been brought up. Settling into a palace of their own behind the Church of the Annunciation on the Neva embankment in St Petersburg, Paul and Alexandra's closest friends and companions were Ella and Serge. In fact, the two young grand duchesses, Elisabeth Feodorovna and Alexandra Georgievna, not only became great friends but were like sisters, as close to one another as their husbands had always been. 'I do love her so dearly', Ella wrote on one occasion to Alexandra's brother Prince Nicholas of Greece and in a further letter referred to herself as 'your own sisters sister'. (...) After doing the rounds of the family sick beds [after a typhus epidemic in 1889], which she likened to visiting a 'real family hospital', Ella, whose own evidently robust state of health saw her safely through the epidemic, went to sit with Alexandra Georgiyevna, who was now four months pregnant with her first child. Seeing Paul ill, Ella wrote, 'makes her very nervous and she will think it worse than it really is'. To help distract her, Ella took Alexandra to the opera (...). A month later, the epidemic had started to pass and the sick were restored to health. Despite a very high wind which whipped up the waters of the Neva and the city's canals, Serge and Paul both ventured out of doors, albeit by carriage. Their destination was the Winter Palace where, during the first week of December, they took part in a reading of a forthcoming production of Tolstoy's Tsar Boris, in which they were both to appear. With the Emperor's permission, the play was staged in the Hermitage theatre at the end of January.

"Ella: Princess, Saint And Martyr" - Christopher Warwick

[ykzzr]

Bernstorff 1895

Princess Victoria of Wales, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, Princes Andrew, Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Grand duchess Olga Alexandrovna, Prince Johann of Glocksburg.

on the opposite side

Princess Maud of Wales, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark.