Silver 50g King GEORGE+Queen OLGA Denmark Russia 🅰️ Greece 1863-1913 🅰️ GRECE

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45mm
50 grams
Fine Silver 999/1000
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George I
Posthumous portrait by
Georgios Jakobides
, 1914
King of the Hellenes
Reign
30 March 1863 – 18 March 1913
[1]
Predecessor
Otto I
Successor
Constantine I
Prime Ministers
See list
Born
Prince William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
24 December 1845
Copenhagen
, Denmark
Died
18 March 1913 (aged 67)
[1]
Thessaloniki
[2]
Burial
Royal Cemetery,
Tatoi Palace
,
Greece
Spouse
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
​
​
(
m.
1867
)
​
Issue
Constantine I of Greece
Prince George
Princess Alexandra
Prince Nicholas
Princess Maria
Princess Olga
Prince Andrew
Prince Christopher
House
Glücksburg
Father
Christian IX of Denmark
Mother
Louise of Hesse-Kassel
Signature
George I
(
Greek
: Γεώργιος Α΄,
Geórgios I
; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was
King of Greece
from 30 March 1863 until his assassination in 1913.
Originally a Danish prince, he was born in
Copenhagen
, and seemed destined for a career in the
Royal Danish Navy
. He was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the
Greek National Assembly
, which had deposed the unpopular
Otto
. His nomination was both suggested and supported by the
Great Powers
: the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
, the
Second French Empire
and the
Russian Empire
. He married Grand Duchess
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
in 1867, and became the first monarch of a
new Greek dynasty
. Two of his sisters,
Alexandra
and
Dagmar
, married into the British and Russian royal families.
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
and
Alexander III of Russia
were his brothers-in-law, and
George V
,
Nicholas II
,
Christian X of Denmark
and
Haakon VII of Norway
were his nephews.
George's reign of almost 50 years (the longest in
modern Greek history
) was characterized by territorial gains as
Greece
established its place in pre-
World War I
Europe. Britain ceded the
Ionian Islands
peacefully in 1864, while
Thessaly
was annexed from the
Ottoman Empire
after the
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
. Greece was not always successful in its territorial ambitions; it was defeated in the
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
. During the
First Balkan War
, after Greek troops had captured much of
Greek Macedonia
, George was assassinated in
Thessaloniki
. Compared with his own long tenure, the reigns of his successors
Constantine I
,
Alexander
, and
George II
, proved short and insecure.
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
Queen consort of the Hellenes
Tenure
27 October 1867 – 18 March 1913
Regent of Greece
Tenure
17 November 1920 – 19 December 1920
Born
Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
3 September 1851
Pavlovsk
,
Russian Empire
Died
18 June 1926 (aged 74)
Rome
,
Italy
or
Pau, France
Burial
17 November 1936
Royal Cemetery,
Tatoi Palace
, Greece
Spouse
George I of Greece
​
​
(
m.
1867
; died
1913
)
​
Issue
Constantine I of Greece
Prince George
Princess Alexandra
Prince Nicholas
Princess Maria
Princess Olga
Prince Andrew
Prince Christopher
House
Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father
Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia
Mother
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
Religion
Eastern Orthodox
Signature
Olga Constantinovna of Russia
(
Greek
:
Όλγα
; 3 September [
O.S.
22 August] 1851 – 18 June 1926) was
Queen of the Hellenes
as the wife of
King George I
. She was briefly the
regent
of Greece in 1920.
A member of the
Romanov dynasty
, she was the daughter of
Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievich
and his wife,
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
. She spent her childhood in
Saint Petersburg
, Poland and the
Crimea
, and married King George I of Greece in 1867 at the age of sixteen. At first, she felt ill at ease in the
Kingdom of Greece
, but she quickly became involved in social and charitable work. She founded hospitals and schools, but her attempt to promote a new, more accessible, Greek translation of the Gospels sparked
riots by religious conservatives
.
On the assassination of her husband in 1913, Olga returned to Russia. When the
First World War
broke out, she set up a
military hospital
in
Pavlovsk Palace
, which belonged to her brother. She was trapped in the palace after the
Russian Revolution
of 1917, until the Danish embassy intervened, allowing her to escape to Switzerland. Olga could not return to Greece as her son,
King Constantine I
, had been deposed.
In October 1920, she returned to Athens on the fatal illness of her grandson,
King Alexander
. After his death, she was appointed regent until the restoration of Constantine I the following month. After the defeat of the Greeks in the
Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22
the
Greek royal family
were again exiled and Olga spent the last years of her life in the United Kingdom, France and Italy.
George first met
Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
in 1863, when she was 12 years old, on a visit to the court of
Tsar Alexander II
between his election to the Greek throne and his arrival in Athens. They met for a second time in April 1867, when George went to the
Russian Empire
to visit his sister
Dagmar
, who had married into the Russian imperial family. While George was privately a
Lutheran
,
[31]
the
Romanovs
were
Orthodox Christians
like the majority of Greeks, and George thought a marriage with a Russian grand duchess would re-assure his subjects on the question of his future children's religion.
[32]
Olga was just 16 years old when she married George at the
Winter Palace
in
Saint Petersburg
on 27 October 1867. After a honeymoon at
Tsarskoye Selo
, the couple left Russia for Greece on 9 November.
[33]
Over the next twenty years, they had eight children:
Constantine
(1868–1923), who married Princess
Sophia of Prussia
;
George
(1869–1957), who married
Princess Marie Bonaparte
;
Alexandra
(1870–1891), who married
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
;
Nicholas
(1872–1938), who married
Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia
;
Maria
(1876–1940), who married firstly
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia
and secondly
Admiral Perikles Ioannidis
;
Olga (1880), who died aged seven months;
Andrew
(1882–1944), who married
Princess Alice of Battenberg
;
Christopher
(1888–1940), who married firstly American widow
Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds
and secondly
Princess Françoise of Orléans
.