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Frederika of Hanover

Frederica of Hanover
Frederika of Greece 1.jpg
Queen consort of the Hellenes
Tenure 1 April 1947 – 6 March 1964
Born (1917-04-18)18 April 1917
Blankenburg am Harz, Duchy of Brunswick
Died 6 February 1981(1981-02-06) (aged 63)
Madrid, Spain
Burial 12 February 1981
Royal Cemetery, Tatoi Palace, Greece
Spouse Paul of Greece
Issue Sofía, Queen of Spain
Constantine II of Greece
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark
Full name
Frederica Louisa Thyra Victoria Margareta Sophie Olga Cécilie Isabelle Christa
House Hanover
Father Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick
Mother Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia
Signature
Full name
Frederica Louisa Thyra Victoria Margareta Sophie Olga Cécilie Isabelle Christa
Styles of
Queen Frederica of the Hellenes
Coat of Arms of Frederica of Hanover.svg
Reference style Her Majesty
Spoken style Your Majesty
Alternative style Ma'am

Frederica of Hanover (Friederike Luise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa; Greek: Φρειδερίκη της Ελλάδας; pronounced [friðeˈrici ˈtis eˈlaðas]; 18 April 1917 – 6 February 1981) was Queen consort of the Hellenes as the wife of King Paul of Greece.

Born Her Royal Highness Princess Frederica of Hanover, of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Brunswick-Lüneburg on 18 April 1917 in Blankenburg am Harz, in the German Duchy of Brunswick, she was the only daughter of Ernest Augustus, then reigning Duke of Brunswick, and his wife Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, herself the only daughter of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Both her father and maternal grandfather would abdicate their crowns in November 1918 following Germany's defeat in World War I, and her paternal grandfather would be stripped of his British royal dukedom the following year. As a descendant of Queen Victoria, she was, at birth, 34th in the line of succession to the British throne.

In 1934, Adolf Hitler, in his ambition to link the British and German royal houses, asked for Frederica's parents to arrange for the marriage of their seventeen-year-old daughter to the Prince of Wales. In her memoirs, Frederica's mother described that she and her husband were "shattered" and such a possibility "had never entered our minds". Victoria Louise herself had once been considered as a potential bride for the very same person prior to her marriage. Moreover, the age difference was too great (the Prince of Wales was twenty-two years Frederica's senior), and her parents were unwilling to "put any such pressure" on their daughter.


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