Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark

Princess Irene
Born (1942-05-11) 11 May 1942
Cape Town, South Africa
House Glücksburg
Father Paul I of Greece
Mother Frederica of Hanover

Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (Spanish: doña Irene de Grecia de Hannover, Greek: Πριγκίπισσα Ειρήνη της Ελλάδας και Δανίας; born 11 May 1942) is the youngest child of King Paul of Greece and his wife Princess Frederika of Hanover. She is the younger sister of Queen Sofía of Spain and of the deposed King Constantine II of Greece.

Biography

She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 11 May 1942. She was a pupil of concert pianist Gina Bachauer and, for a while, she was a professional concert pianist herself.

She was dating Prince Michel of Orléans, comte d'Évreux, a younger son of the Orléanist pretender Henri, Count of Paris, when he met Béatrice Marie Pasquier de Franclieu,[1] whom he married on 18 November 1967 in Casablanca, Morocco, without his father's consent.[2] Princess Irene has never married and is close to her brother, Constantine.

After her brother was dethroned, she moved to India with her mother. Since her mother's death, Princess Irene has lived in Spain in an apartment at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, the royal residence of her sister and brother-in-law, the King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain.

She is the founder and president of the World in Harmony organisation (Mundo en Armonía).[3] On 16 March 2018, Princess Irene obtained the Spanish nationality and renounced her Greek nationality.[4][5]

Notable published works

  • En Decelia: fragmentos cerámicos de Decelia y miscelánea arqueológica. Athens, (1959–1960). Edited in Spanish in Spain, 2013.[6][7] ISBN 9788494103308

Titles and honours

Titles
  • 11 May 1942 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark.
  • 6 March 1964 – 10 July 1965: Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Irene of Greece, Duchess of Sparta, Princess of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

(Between Accession of King Constantine II and Birth of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark)

National honours
Foreign honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ Herrero, Nieves. Beatriz de Orleans, El Mundo Magazine. 4/10/2009
  2. ↑ Velde, Francois. The Royal Family: A Genealogy, Heraldica.org, accessed 12/10/2009
  3. ↑ "Who We Are". World In Harmony. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  4. ↑ El Mundo
  5. ↑ «Real Decreto 164/2018, de 16 de marzo, por el que se concede la nacionalidad española por carta de naturaleza a Su Alteza Real doña Irene de Grecia de Hannover.»
  6. ↑ Logintegral
  7. ↑ Librería Marcial Pons
  8. ↑ Flickr, Photo of Princess Irene and Princess Sofia, Queen of Spain
  9. ↑ Jørgen Pedersen: Riddere af Elefantordenen 1559–2009, Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2009. ISBN 8776744345
  10. ↑ Membership of the Constantinian Order Archived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ Royal State Visits
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark
Cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg
Born: 11 May 1942
Greek royalty
Preceded by
Constantine
as Crown Prince		 Heir-presumptive to the Greek throne
1964–1965		 Succeeded by
Princess Alexia
Lines of succession
Preceded by
Constantine II of Greece		 Line of succession to the British throne
descended from Victoria, Princess Royal, daughter of Queen Victoria		 Succeeded by
Duchess Donata of Mecklenburg
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