Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (born 1971)
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Princess Olga Isabelle of Greece (born 17 November 1971) is the daughter of Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marina Karella, an artist and heiress.
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[edit] Early life
Olga grew up in Paris and New York, spending summers at the family's island retreat at Patmos, Greece. [1] She chose to attend boarding school in England, has studied history in Rome, and is a graduate of Princeton University. [2] She also holds a degree in Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, and worked in interior decoration. Enthusiastic in butterflies, she went to Panama to photograph and study phalaena. Later as a lepidopterist, she helped to set up and worked in Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama in co-operation with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is also a journalist and filmmaker.
[edit] Engagement
Her engagement to Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of Apulia, her second cousin, son of Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, was announced in May 2005. Aimone and Olga are both great-grandchildren of the French pretender Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise. Aimone is also a great-great-grandson of George I of Greece, and Olga is a great-granddaughter of George I of Greece. The wedding date had been variously reported as 1 and 8 October 2005, and more recently had been reported as being set for 9 October 2005 on the Isle of Patmos, but was still unconfirmed as of October 2006. In August, it was reported that the wedding was to be held in the intimate setting of Patmos on the 9th of October, with fewer than fifty family members and guests invited to attend.[3] But the event did not take place and it is not clear if it was ever actually scheduled for that date. Also, Aimone, in an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa on 8 July 2006, stated that he and his fiancée intend to marry in 2007. However, no specific date has been made public. No new wedding date had been announced as of December 2007, although the couple were occasionally pictured in society magazines attending monarchist and cultural events in 2006, and one such periodical, Point de Vue, affirmed that the couple were still betrothed.[4]
[edit] Royal status
Unlike other members of the Greek Royal Family, she was not deemed a full member of the Greek royal house under the monarchy, despite being born of a marriage recognized by King Constantine II of Greece (pursuant to Greek legislative decree 1298/1949). As daughters of a non-dynastic marriage, she and her elder sister, Princess Alexandra, are not accorded the traditional style of Royal Highness, nor do they bear the titular suffix "and Denmark".[5][6]
[edit] References
- ^ "Talents et volonté" (in French) (1991-02-21). Point de Vue.
- ^ Bern, Stéphane (1987-03-13). "Michel de Grèce: prince et romancier" (in French). Dynastie: pages 12-15.
- ^ Meylan, Vincent (2005-08-31). "Le Plus Royal" (in French). Point de Vue: page 21.
- ^ "Ils Sont Ensemble" (in French) (2006-12-20). Point de Vue.
- ^ Willis, Daniel (1999). The Descendants of Louis XIII. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co., pages 94, 762. ISBN 0-8063-4942-5. “The daughters of Prince and Princess Michael [of Greece and Denmark] are titled Princess of Greece without the style of Royal Highness”
- ^ Huberty, Michel; Alain Giraud, F. and B. Magdelaine (1994). L'Allemagne Dynastique Tome VII Oldenbourg (in French), 329, 357. ISBN 2-901138-07-1.
