Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
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Princess Eugénie | |
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Princess Dominik Radziwiłł Duchess of Castel Duino | |
Born | Paris, France | 10 February 1910
Died | 13 February 1989 Geneva, Switzerland | (aged 79)
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House | Glücksburg |
Father | Prince George of Greece and Denmark |
Mother | Marie Bonaparte |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ευγενία; 10 February 1910 – 13 February 1989) was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Marie-Félix Blanc and Prince Roland Bonaparte, a great-nephew of Napoleon I. Her father was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia.
As a cousin of the bridegroom, she was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[1]
She authored Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr, a biography of Aleksey Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, written in French, which was published in 1990.
Marriage and issue[]
She married Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł, member of the House of Radziwiłł, on 30 May 1938 in Paris. They divorced in 1946. They had two children:[2]
- Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł (b. 28 August 1939); married Jean Henri Fruchaud.[3] and has issue. Tatiana was a bridesmaid at the 1962 wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark as well as the 1964 wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark[4]
- Prince Jerzy (George) Andrzej Dominik Hieronim Piotr Leon Radziwiłł (4 November 1942 – 27 August 2001).
Eugénie remarried on 28 November 1949 to Prince Raymundo della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino, a cadet member of the House of Thurn and Taxis. Their marriage also ended in divorce, in 1965. They had one son:
- Prince Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, Duke di Castel Duino (b. 10 February 1952); married Veronique Lantz and had issue.
Ancestry[]
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Honours[]
References[]
- ^ Royal Collection: Seating plan for the Ball Supper Room http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/royalwedding1947/object.asp?grouping=&exhibs=NONE&object=9000366&row=82&detail=magnify
- ^ "Genealogy". Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- ^ Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia, Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166.
- ^ "Untitled Document". 25 August 2004. Archived from the original on 25 August 2004.
- ^ Coronation of Elizabeth II Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- Danish princesses
- Greek princesses
- House of Glücksburg (Greece)
- Radziwiłł family
- 1910 births
- 1989 deaths
- Princesses of Thurn und Taxis
- People from Paris
- French people of German descent
- French people of Danish descent
- Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature)
- French people of Greek descent
- French people of Russian descent