a) Princess Marie Bonaparte, wife of Olga’s second son, Prince George of Greece: Sigh.....Portraying Her Majesty in the film, The Queen, is Helen Mirren. What irony that the much more obscure Princesse Marie Bonaparte, is played by the elegant Catherine Deneuve in the French film, Princesse Marie. Wealthy through her mother, who had been heiress to a Monte Carlo real estate fortune, and having status through the imperial Bonaparte family, Princess Marie was the noted psychoanalyst instrumental in getting Sigmund Freud out of Nazi-occupied Austria. She along with Princess Anastasia kept the Greek royals living in some comfort while in exile in Paris.

b) Princess Francoise d'Orleans of the French royals, 2nd wife of Prince Christopher, mother of Prince Michael, whose family raised the teenage orphan in the royal manner. In the 1950s, the Count and Countess of Paris lived in high style in Paris, during which time they also took in Princess Alexandra of Kent for a stint.

c) Princess Sophie of Prussia, Queen to Constantine 1st: She was the daughter of Queen Victoria's Princess Royal, known as the Empress Frederik, whose German connections proved unfavourable during wartime.

d) Princess Frederika of Hanover, Queen to King Pavlos 1st (aunt to Prince Ernst, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco): Labelled an emotionally-impetuous and action-oriented, if politically naïve, German princess and Cumberland descendant of George III and Queen Charlotte, Frederika was seen as putting her hand into the cauldron of Greek politics. In exile, she had her younger daughter, Princess Irene, serve almost as a latter-day Princess Victoria (sister of King George V).

e) Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, youngest of the three daughters of Frederick and Ingrid of Denmark became Europe’s youngest queen at 18 years of age in a love match with her third cousin, Constantine II. Following the military coup, the young monarchs stayed for a time in Denmark and Rome before settling in Hampstead Heath. Until their status in Greece is regularized, they travel under Danish passports.

f) Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, wife of Prince Phillip of Greece: The only son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andreas (the fourth son of King George I and Queen Olga), the Duke of Edinburgh's family ties have ensured that his Greek relatives have continued to take part in the social life of the British court. Indeed, Constantine II is Prince William's godfather.