Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark

House of Oldenburg (Glücksburg branch)

George I

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Olga, Princess Paul of Yugoslavia
Princess Elizabeth, Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach
Marina, Duchess of Kent
Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Theodora, Margravine of Baden
Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
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Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Constantine I
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Alexander I
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Princess Katherine
Alexander I
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Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia
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Constantine II
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Princess Alexia
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
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Princess Theodora
Prince Philippos
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Princess Maria
Prince Konstantinos
Prince Achileas
Prince Odysseas

Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark was the eldest child and daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. She was born on 18 April 1905 on the island of Corfu in Greece.

[edit] Ancestry

Through her father, she was a grandchild of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinova of Russia, a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Through her mother she was a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her mother was a granddaughter of The Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Margarita married His Serene Highness Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg on 20 April 1931 in Langenburg, Germany. Gottfried was the eldest son of Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Princess Alexandra, a male line granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert through their second son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. As such, both Princess Margarita and Prince Gottfried had common ancestors in Queen Victoria and Nicholas I of Russia.

Their marriage produced six children:

A stillborn daughter (born December 3, 1933)
His Serene Highness Prince Kraft Alexander Ernst Ludwig Georg Emich, Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 25 June 1935)
Her Serene Highness Princess Beatrix Alice Marie Melita Margarete of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 10 June 1936)
His Serene Highness Prince Georg Andreas Heinrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born November 24, 1938)
His Serene Highness Prince Rupprecht Sigismund Philipp Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born April 7, 1944)
His Serene Highness Prince Albrecht Wolfgang Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born April 7, 1944)

Their four elder children were all born at Schwäbisch Hall, while the two youngest boys, twins, were born in Langenburg.

Princess Margarita died on 24 April 1981 in Langenburg, Germany. She survived her husband by 21 years.

Monarchical Styles of Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark

Reference style:	HRH
Spoken style:	Your Royal Highness
Alternative style:	Ma'am