Princess Alexia | |
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Princess Alexia at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, 19 June 2010
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Born |
Mon Repos, Corfu, Ionian Islands, Kingdom of Greece |
10 July 1965
Spouse | Carlos Morales Quintana (m. 1999) |
Issue | Arrietta Morales y de Grecia Ana María Morales y de Grecia Carlos Morales y de Grecia Amelia Morales y de Grecia |
House | Glücksburg |
Father | Constantine II of Greece |
Mother | Anne-Marie of Denmark |
Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Αλεξία; born 10 July 1965) is the eldest child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie of Denmark, who were the last King and Queen of the Hellenes, reigning from 1964 to 1973.
Since her own birth and until the birth on 20 May 1967 of her brother Pavlos, Alexia was heir presumptive to the throne of the Hellenes, then an extant monarchy. Greece's order of succession to the throne was male-preference primogeniture rather than Salic, similar to the succession laws of the United Kingdom and Spain.
Educated, like her brothers, at the Hellenic College in London, she earned an AB at the University of London at Sussex, where she studied history. Subsequently she completed a course in elementary education, working in London's East End where she taught in a state primary school before moving to Barcelona where she became a teacher of children with developmental disabilities.
On 9 July 1999 Alexia married Carlos Morales Quintana, an architect and a champion yachtsman, at St. Sophia Cathedral, London. The bride wore a gown by the Austrian designer Inge Sprawson. Her attendants were her sister Princess Theodora, her niece Princess Maria-Olympia, and Princess Mafalda, daughter of Kyril, Prince of Preslav, a son of former King Simeon of Bulgaria. The couple has four children: Arrietta (born 24 February 2002), Ana (born 15 May 2003), Carlos (born 30 July 2005), and Amelia (born 26 October 2007).