Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia
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| Born |
30 August 1870 Corfu, Kingdom of Greece |
| Died | 24 September 1891 (aged 21) Ilyinskoye, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Burial | Royal Cemetery, Tatoi Palace, Greece |
| Spouse | Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia |
| Issue |
Maria Pavlovna, Princess Sergei Mikhailovich Putyatin Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich |
| House | Glücksburg |
| Father | George I of Greece |
| Mother | Olga Constantinovna of Russia |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox |
Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (Russian: Алекса́ндра Гео́ргиевна); née Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Πριγκίπισσα Αλεξάνδρα της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας); 30 August 1870 – 24 September 1891) was the third child and firstborn daughter of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece, who herself was a daughter of a Russian grand duke, and was also a grandchild of Denmark's King Christian IX and Queen Louise. She was a sister to Constantine I of Greece, and thus aunt of three kings and two queens, Constantine's three sons, who all became kings of Greece, and two of his daughters, who were queens, in name, of Romania and Croatia, respectively. She was also first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, King George V of the United Kingdom, and both King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway, as well as a paternal aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark was born on 30 [O.S. 18 August] 1870 at Mon Repos, the summer residence of the Greek royal family on the island of Corfu. She was the third child and eldest daughter of King George I of Greece and his wife, Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia. Alexandra's father was not a native Greek, but he had been born a Danish prince named Christian Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a son of Christian IX, King of Denmark, and he had been elected to the Greek throne at the age of seventeen. Thus, the Greek royal family was part of the Danish and it was in a close personal relationship with the British and Russian dynasties since King George’s sisters, Alexandra and Dagmar, had married the heirs to thrones of England and Russia. King George I of Greece and Queen Olga married young. They had a happy marriage and eight children. One daughter died in childhood, but five sons (Constantine, George, Nicholas, Andrew, Christopher) and two daughters (Alexandra and Maria) reached adulthood.
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