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Royal Marriages of More Than Convenience PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Janice Seto   
Tuesday, 12 December 2006


However, this didn't often happen, as can be seen with the following marriages:

a) The impecunious Princess Alice of Battenberg: She married Prince Andreas of Greece, a union which produced Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. For more details, I refer you to Hugo Vickers' excellent biography.

b) High spirited Princess Elizabeth of Romania: George II of Greece, son of King Constantine I of Greece and Queen Sophie, and his sister, Princess Eleni (Helen), married royal siblings of Romania, respectively Princess Elizabeth and Prince Carol, later King. Neither marriage proved happy and this particular George and Elizabeth had no children.

3) Wealthy:

"No money, no accent, no play." Attibuted to the Miller Sisters' dating guidelines:

 
It should not have raised eyebrows that Constantine II consented to his heir, Prince Pavlos, marrying American heiress Marie-Chantal Miller in 1996. After all, she was not the first!

In 1920, Mrs Nancy Leeds, a twice-married mother, became Princess Anastacia when Prince Christopher married her. The wealthy widow of the 'Tinplate King' William Leeds, Nancy kept the family alive and well while in exile.

These days it is Miller DFS money (including the rumoured $100 million dowry) that helps keep the crown princely family in good stead in London.
 
A few months before Nancy entered the family, Miss Aspasia Manos secretly married the lonely King Alexander I, who was essentially a hostage in his palace, his family having been forced into exile.

In reality this was quite a dangerous match for the king as it seemed that the neutrality of the sovereign was compromised by his choosing amongst a certain faction to wed.

After his death, the Manos family supported Aspasia (made a Princess in widowhood) and her daughter, Princess Alexandra (later Queen to King Peter II of Yugoslavia), in their wanderings in Europe.



In 1997, another Manos married Prince Charles-Louis of the French Orleans dynasty, with Ileana becoming SAR la Duchesse de Chartres.
 
Prince Michael of Greece also married a wealthy Greek.



 
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