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unusual facts about King of Greece



Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

Adelheid and Augustus had two daughters; Amalia, who was born in 1818 an later married Prince Otto of Bavaria, the elected King of Greece, and thus became Queen consort of Greece; and Frederica, who was born in 1820 and later married Maximilian Emanuel von Washington, the son of Jakob von Washington, a distant relative of the first President of the United States George Washington.


see also

George of Greece

George II of Greece - King of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947

James Fitzjames

Fitzjames served detached duty on a cutter, the Hind, sailing twice to Constantinople, and on HMS Madagascar, during which time the Madagascar conveyed Otto of Greece from Trieste to Nauplia where Otto was crowned King of Greece.

Leopold of Bavaria

Prince Leopold of Bavaria (b. 1846), German Field Marshal and titular King of Greece

Munich School

Due to the historical affinity between Bavaria and Greece—Prince Otto I was from 1832 to 1862 the first King of Greece—many Greek artists were trained in Munich.