Chapter 19
Volume VIII

Her Imperial Highness
Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna
( Princess of Greece and Denmark )
( 1870 - 1891 )

ESSENTIALS

Born: August 30, 1870 at Corfu, Greece.
Christened:
Godparents:
Name Day:
Nickname: Alix or Aline
Parents: King George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna.
Engaged: Spring 1888.
Married: At St. Petersburg in the Winter Palace church on June 17, 1889
Issue: (1) Marie, (2) Dimitri
Died: At Ilyinskoe, near Moscow on September 24, 1891 n.st.
Buried: (1) Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg on September 30, 1891 = (2) Reburied ???? in Grand Ducal Mausoleum in the Petropavlovsk Fortress. = (3) Reburied on January 21 or 23, 1940 at Tatoi, near Athens, Greece.
Relationship to Author: Wife of Grandfather's 1st cousin and 2nd cousin of father.
Principal Residence in Russia: English Quay
Memoirs: None
Diaries: ?
Biography: None
Present Episodic Biography: 4567 words ( 14 pages )

Immediate Family Tree:
Alexandra
Brothers:
Constantine + 2
George + 1
Nicholas - 2
First Cousins in Russia:
Grand Duke Tsessarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich + 2
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich + 1
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna - 5
First Cousins Abroad
Prince George of Great Britain, Duke of York + 5
Princess Louise of Great Britain + 3
Princess Maud of Great Britain + 1
Princess Marie-Louise of Hanover + 1
Prince George-Wilhelm of Hanover =
Prince Christian of Denmark =
Prince Karl of Denmark - 2
Princess Alexandra of Hanover - 2
Princess Olga of Hanover - 4
Prince Christian of Hanover - 5
Princess Louise of Denmark - 5
Second Cousins Abroad:
Prince Friedrich-Karl of Hesse-Cassel - 2
Princess Polyxena of Hesse-Cassel - 2

1
Childhood and Adolescence

Alexandra, the third child of King George and Queen Olga of Greece, and their first daughter was born at Corfu, the charming Ionian island, on August 30, 1870. Not far was the Achilleion the small royal residence of Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
Alix, as she was known in the family, was named after her maternal grandmother.
In the sheltered childhood of a European princess, life was mostly uneventful, influenced mostly by family meetings and events. First of all, of course, by the numerous births in her own Greek family, and by those among her Danish and Russian relatives.
A quick look at the list of cousins of appropriate age will be useful.
And so little Alexandra was eight when sister Olga, was born in Athens and died there a few months later. She was already eight when cousin Thyra was born in Denmark and cousin Wilhelm of Hanover at Gmunden. She was ten when brother Andrew was born in Athens and cousins Olga in Russia and Alexandra of Hanover in Gmunden.
At fourteen she might have been old enough to be taken to the marriage of uncle Constantine Constantinovich in St. Petersburg.
When she was fifteen, her first cousin Christian of Hanover was born at Gmunden and uncle Waldemar of Denmark married Marie-Amelie of Orleans at Eu.
In 1886 when she was already sixteen...................................

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