#queen elisabeth of greece

[romanian-monarchy]

Marie of Romania with her daughter, princess Elisabeth (later queen of Greece).

[diioonysus]

art + hair pieces

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

prettiest royal woman iyo?

Queen Alexandra

Empress Maria Feodorovna

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

Empress Victoria of Germany

Queen Maud of Norway

Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna

Queen Sophia of Greece

Queen Maria Sophie of the Two Siciles

Princess Margaret

Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Duchess of Galliera.

[rwpohl]

katafalk, valeriy todorovskiy 1990

[elgallinero]

Practice English

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[queenalexandraofdenmark]

They all were such wonderful mothers. 💞

Romanov women as loving mothers:

Empress Maria Fyodorovna with her fourth child and first daughter Xenia

Queen Olga Konstantinovna of Greece with her fifth child and second daughter Maria

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna with her second son and child Kyril

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna with her first child and only daughter Maria

Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna with her third child and first daughter Tatiana

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna with her first child and only daughter Irina

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna with her youngest child and only son Alexei

Grand Duchess Victoria Fyodorovna with her second child and daughter Maria

Princess Maria Pavlovna of Sweden with her first child and son Lennart

[tiaramania]

Prince Christian of Denmark's 18th Birthday Gala

The Danish Royal Court announced today that as part of Prince Christian's 18th birthday celebrations there will be a gala dinner! It will take place on Sunday, October 15th at 5:00pm local time.

The Queen hosts a gala dinner at Christianborg Palace, to which a selection of the country’s youth organizations as well as young people who have made their mark in the worlds of sport, arts and culture are invited, among others. In addition, The Royal House of Denmark will invite up to 200 young people from the realm to take part in the celebration in cooperation with the country’s municipalities, as each of Denmark’s municipalities as well as Greenland and the Faroe Islands will have the opportunity to select two 18-year-olds to participate in the gala dinner.

After the original announcement, I was unsure if the gala would be white tie like Crown Prince Frederik's 18th birthday in 1986 and Queen Margrethe II's in 1958 or if their would be foreign royals present but we've since found out that both are happening!

I'll keep a running guest list here as more royals confirm attendance.

Denmark

Queen Margrethe II

Crown Prince Frederik & Crown Princess Mary

Princess Isabella

Princess Josephine

Prince Vincent

Prince Joachim & Princess Marie

Count Felix

Count Henrik

Countess Athena

Belgium

Crown Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

Greece

Queen Anne Marie

Crown Prince Pavlos & Crown Princess Marie Chantal

Netherlands

Crown Princess Catharina Amalia, Princess of Orange

Norway

Crown Prince Haakon & Crown Princess Mette Marit

Princess Ingrid Alexandra

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Princess Benedikte

Prince Gustav & Princess Carina

Sweden

Crown Princess Victoria & Prince Daniel

Princess Estelle

[archduchessofnowhere]

The Wittelsbachs of the branch of dukes in Bavaria, of an independent and wild character, were too contemptuous of the conventions of the century. Among them, respect for their own freedom had the force of law and even bordered on insolence. My father [Albert I of the Belgians] often told me of his atonishment at seeing, during one of his stays in Possenhofen, the duke Karl-Theodor left for a horseback ride at the very moment his sister the empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Franz-Joseph, without even greeting her even though they hadn’t seen each other for months.

My mother [Queen Elisabeth, née Duchess in Bavaria] admired the empress, her aunt and godmother. A certain quality of emotion and aesthetic sensibility unite them. But when the empress said “When I move among people, I only use for them the part of myself that I have in common with them. They are surprised at our resemblance, but it is an old piece of clothing that from time to time I take out of the wardrobe to wear for a few hours”, my mother, for her part, could not have taken this attitude, because all her life, she shared the best of herself with others, and this with generosity and a total absence of condescension.

The pagan that was the empress, imbued with the beauties of ancient Greece, had passed on to her niece a certain number of hygienic advices: pluge no matter when into glacial water, walk indefinitely in all weathers, as well as number of other precepts that she cultivated until the end of her days. Let us add to this some principles of geriatrics kept jealously secret.

What my mother deplored about her aunt was her insubordination to the rigid etiquette of the Court of Vienna, insubordination which alienated the Austrian aristocracy. Besides, her prolonged absences from the capital and her costly wanderings earned her the reputation of being at least whimsical.

“…In our positions, we must avoid being given a label that we will never get rid of,” assured my mother. How many characters from history have had sad reputations, often undeserved, for this sole reason.

My father granted more indulgence to “this beautiful creature”, as he called her. Besides her beauty, he admired her deep intuitive sense of events and things. According to him, the Empress foresaw the imminent collapse of the heterogeneous amalgam that the Austro-Hungarian Empire had become. We have preserved some verses from her quite academic but very prophetic, written in 1893:

“How right you are, Habsburg, to cover [your head “How right you are to wring your hands “Think then of your departed race “Never again will your children reign over your lands!”

Powerless, Elisabeth of Austria fled from her cruel destiny without seeking to dominate it. She was freed by the knife of a fanatic on the banks of peaceful Lake Geneva. “I would like to escape from my body, like a little bird from its cage,” she frequently said to her relatives. Let's listen to Barres who summarizes in a few lines the wandering existence of this nihilistic sovereign, thirsty for the absolute: "… Her movements did not have the beautiful and reasonable regularity of the migrations of a traveling bird, it was rather the whirling of a a lost spirit which beats the air, which no longer finds shelter and which no discipline regulates.” In similar circumstances, my mother would certainly have overcome the adversities of life because, in her, confidence and energy dominated events through an instinctive sense of the mysterious laws of life and through a concrete vision of the responsibilities to be assumed.

Marie-José of Belgium (1971). Albert et Elisabeth de Belgique, Mes Parents

[royalsofhistory]

Empress Elisabeth of Austria and her Corfiot palace through the eyes of the Greek royals.

Greece was destined to offer the Empress Elisabeth the hospitality of its soil. She chose Greece as the country where she would hide herself and her sorrow. At Corfu she bought a site of ground from an old Corfiote Statesman called Braïla, and on it she built the Palace which she called "Achilleion", after her hero Achilles, whose statue was in the middle of the top garden terrace, and represented him at the hour of his death, drawing the arrow out of his heel. When in Corfu, it was understood, she was to be strictly incognito, and her wishes were always respected. One day, suddenly, when we least expected it, she arrived at Athens, having travelled by the ordinary steamer, and called at the Palace accompanied by a lady -in-waiting. She asked the porter whether she could see the King and Queen. On the porter's inquiring who she was, she replied she was "the Empress of Austria." Whereupon we were brought down to verify that statement . It seemed impossible╴but it was the Empress of Austria! Needless to say she obtained her interview, and after half an hour's conversation she took her departure, insisting that her visit should not be returned by my parents. As she was anxious to study Greek culture, she decided to learn modern Greek, and applied herself to the task with great energy and perseverance. She engaged a tutor for Greek conversation. Her first was Dr. Christomanos, an author and poet, who wrote a charming life of the Empress, which was translated into several languages. Her last was Count A. Mercati, who afterwards became Master of King Constantine's household. Accompanied by her tutor, the Empress used to go off on a five or six hours' walk, all over the island; and even for the picturesque ceremony of combing and brushing her hair the tutor had to be present, talking Greek to her all the time. She learnt to speak Greek quite faultlessly. In the arrangement of her house the Empress took great pride, setting up the statues of all her new "Gods"; Sophocles, Euripides, Plato and Aristotle. She also had a statue of Heine, the poet, erected in a shrine. When the Kaiser bought the Achilleion, he at once banished Heine, and raised Achilles from his recumbent position into a standing War Lord, with gilded helmet and shield, so that the first sight of Achilleion should be his glittering helmet. It is a pity that the Empress tried to improve the natural beauty of the spot. Her lack of taste, I may even ungraciously say her eccentricities, were almost an eyesore. There was a grotto of artificial rock and mirrors, destined as a home for monkeys, who luckily never came to inhabit it. Though the island abounded in oranges, she sent to Italy for her fruit. The view from the terrace over all the plain of Corfu, with its olive groves groups cypresses on one side and the sea and the mountains of Albania on the other one of the most exquisite I have ever seen.

The memoirs of His Royal Highness, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, My fifty years, 1926.

I was a child when the Empress came to Athens and saw her only once or twice, but I remember her more vividly than many people I knew far better. I imagine it was the same with everyone who came in contact with her. Her brilliant, beautiful and restless personality left an indelible impression. She was so enchanted with Greece that she decided to build a villa in Corfu. The site she chose could not have been more beautiful, about twelve miles outside the town, set on a high hill overlooking the sea on one side and a chain of mountains on the other. But she was too impatient even to look at the plans and gave the architect carte blanche. So instead of the simple cottage she had intended he erected an orate and hideous palace lavishly adorned with frescoes, statues and bronzes of every description. This atrocity cost the Austrian Govemment twelve million crowns, I believe. The Empress's life was dominated by the fear of losing her beauty. As she grew older it became an obsession. Hours were spent every moring brushing the glotious brown hair that she wore gathered into two great plaits coiled around her head. This hair-brushing was a matter of solemn ritual. Any hairs that fell out during the process were carefully collected and presented to the Empress on a silver salver. If their number proved to be too many the entire day was blackened to her. Once a captain of a Russian gunboat reported that he had seen a yacht coming into the Piraus harbour with a woman seated on the deck whose mass of hair reached down to the ground while two attendants stood behind her brushing it. " That could only be the Empress of Austria." said my father, when he heard the story. Later in the day a carriage drove up to the Palace and a mysterious visitor was announced, a lady who refused to give her name. It was, as we expected, the Empress Elizabeth. She insisted on preserving a strict incognito while she was in Greece, although it seemed rather unnecessary, since everyone knew who she was. She detested nothing so much as being photographed, or even looked at for that matter, and always carried a large fan with her on her walks, so that she could unfurl it and hide her face from the passers-by. The Empress was a fine woman in many respects, far finer, I think, than most of her biogtaphers have represented her. Intelligent, intuitive, sensitive, she had all the qualities to make a great empress. But she was tragically lacking in a sense of proportion. Even in the small issues of everyday life she had no idea of modera-tion. She could not take anything up without making it a mania. While she was in Corfu she set herself to learn Greek, although she had gone there to rest. Now Greek is a complicated language and its study is hardly to be recommended as a restful pursuit. The Empress certainly did not regard it as such either for herself or any one else, for she wore out her two teachers, Count Mercati and Mr. Christomanos. Every day she walked ten or twelve miles with one or the other, talking Greek all the way and, even during the hair-brushing ceremony, one of them was always present reading to her. Her figure became another obsession with her. Although she was exaggeratedly slender when she came to Greece (she weighed, I believe, only seven stones) no Hollywood film star could have followed out a more Spartan regime. Her constant dieting made her irritable and depressed. Even when she lunched with my mother and father she would often eat nothing but a salad and some fruit, and she would start off immediately afterwards on one of her exhausting walks, skimming over the ground like a restless, beautiful wraith.

The memoirs of His Royal Highness, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, 1938.

[charlotte-of-wales]

Foreign Royals arrive for the Coronation Reception For Overseas Guests at Buckingham Palace ┃May 5th, 2023

In order:

King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan

King Felipe V and Queen Letizia of Spain

King Carl VXI Gustaf and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

King Philippe and Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway

Princess Catharina-Amalia and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan

Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria-Teresa of Luxembourg

Queen Anne Marie, Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie Chantal of Greece

 King Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida of Thailand 

Crown Prince Alexander and Princess Catherine of Serbia

Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco 

Margareta, Custodian of the Crown of Romania and Prince Radu of Romania

King of Tonga Aho'eitu Unuaki'otonga Tuku'aho Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u of Tonga

Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa of Bahrain

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and Prince Abdul Mateen of Brunei

[romanian-monarchy]

Princess Elisabeth; c. 1910's.

Photo by Charles Chusseau-Flaviens.

[romanovsonelastdance]

The future King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians.

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder had allegedly hoped that her daughter, Elena Vladimirovna, might marry the then-Prince Albert, heir to his uncle King Leopold II's throne. But before a visit to Russia could be arranged, the Belgian prince announced his engagement to Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, a niece of the famous Sisi. Funnily enough, Elena's middle daughter Elizabeth of Greece would grow up to marry a nephew of Queen Elisabeth's, Karl Theodor zu Toerring Jettenbach, the eldest son of Queen Elisabeth's sister Sophie.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

𝙲𝚑𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚁𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 👑✨🍫

(𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟷 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝟺)

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Queen Lovisa of Denmark, née Princess Lovisa of Sweden.

Princess Henry of Prussia, née Princess Irene of Hesse.

Queen Olga of Greece, née Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna.

Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, née Princess Margaret of Connaught.

Empress Augusta Viktoria of Germany, née Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

Queen Mary 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚍𝚘𝚖, née Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.

Queen Maud of Norway, née Princess Maud of Wales.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, née Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria.

Queen Elena of Italy, née Princess Elena of Montenegro.

[rwpohl]

princess elisabeth of romania, queen of greece

[tiny-librarian]

Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. As the mother of Queen Charlotte, she is the ancestor of multiple reigning monarchs in Europe today; those in The United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, and Spain. She is also the ancestor of the abolished monarchies of Greece and Yugoslavia.

[remembertheredheads]

Royal Tiara Challenge: Day 14

Favorite Emerald Tiara: Queen Elisabeth of Greece's Emerald Parure Tiara

No notes. I can't even complain about the stylized "E" motif for Elisabeth. I hope this doesn't disappear as the Greeks have fewer regular tiara wearers.