Anne-Marie, who was born on August 30, 1946, is a Greek and Danish royal. She is the younger sister of Denmark’s Margrethe II. She was the final Queen of Greece, reigning as King Constantine II’s wife from 1964 to 1973.
She was born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, the youngest daughter of King Frederick IX of Denmark, and his wife Ingrid of Sweden. In 1964, she married King Constantine and became Queen Consort of Greece.
During her reign as Queen of Greece, Anne-Marie devoted most of her time to the “Her Majesty’s Fund,” afterward renamed the “Anne-Marie Foundation,” which assisted individuals in rural Greece.
When Greece became a republic in 1967, the monarch and queen were forced into exile and eventually deposed.
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece siblings: Princess Benedikte of Denmark
Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg RE, SKmd, D.Ht. born 29 April 1944 is a member of the Danish royal family.
She is the second daughter and child of Denmark’s King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid. She is the younger sister of Denmark’s current Queen Margrethe II and the older sister of Greece’s Queen Anne-Marie.
At official or semi-official events, Princess Benedikte frequently represents her elder sister.
She had three children with her late husband, Richard, the 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. Princess Benedikte is now the 11th in line to the Danish throne.
Princess Benedikte and her sisters were raised in apartments in Frederick VIII’s Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen and Fredensborg Palace in North Zealand.
She spent her summer vacations with the royal family at her parent’s summer house in Southern Jutland, Gersten Palace. King Christian X died on April 20, 1947, and Benedikte’s father ascended to the throne as King Frederick IX.
Only men could reach the Danish throne at the time of her father’s reign. Because her parents had no sons, it was thought that her uncle Prince Knud would take the throne one day.
Margrethe II of Denmark
Margrethe II of Denmark born on 16 April 1940 is the reigning monarch of Denmark. She has reigned as Denmark’s monarch for more than 50 years, making her Europe’s longest-serving current head of state and the world’s only queen regnant following the death of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
The Queen’s official homes are Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen and Fredensborg Palace in Stockholm.
Marselisborg Palace near Aarhus and Gersten Palace near Snderborg, the former home of her mother, Queen Ingrid, who died in 2000, are her vacation residences.
Margrethe is a skilled painter who has had numerous art displays throughout the years.
Her illustrations were used for Danish editions of The Lord of the Rings, which she was urged to illustrate in the early 1970s, under the alias Ingahild Grathmer.
She gave them to J. R. R. Tolkien, who was taken by how similar her drawings were to his own.
