Royal Profile: Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Queen Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid of Greece was born Princess Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid of Denmark, the third child of King Fredrick IX of Denmark and Queen Ingrid of Denmark on 30 August 1946 {Source}.
She has two older sisters, two brothers-in-law, three nephews, two nieces, several neices and nephews-in-law, and great nieces and great nephews{Source}:
She has two older sisters, two brothers-in-law, three nephews, two nieces, several neices and nephews-in-law, and great nieces and great nephews{Source}:
- Queen Margarethe II of Demark (1940)
- Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
- Crown Prince Fredrik of Denmark
- Crown Princess Mary (1972, m. 2004)
- Prince Christian (2005)
- Princess Isabella(2007)
- Prince Vincent (2011)
- Princess Josephine (2011)
- Prince Joachim of Denmark
- Alexandra, Countess of Fredriksburg (m. 1995-2005)
- Prince Nikolai (1999)
- Prince Felix (2002)
- Princess Marie (m. 2008)
- Prince Henrik (2009)
- Princess Athena (2012)
- Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1944)
- Richard,6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
- Gustav, 7th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1969)
- Miss Carina Axelsson (partners since 2008)
- Alexandra, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth(1970)
- Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
- Count Friedrich Richard Oscar von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (1999)
- Countess Ingrid Alexandra von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (2003)
- Nathalie, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1975)
- Alexander Johannasman
- Master Konstantin Gustav Heinrich Richard Johannsmann (2010)
- Miss Louisa Johannsmann (2015) She has two brothers-in-law:
- King Christian X of Denmark (paternal grandfather)
- Queen Alexandrine of Denmark (paternal grandmother)
- King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (maternal grandfather)
- Prince Bertil of Sweden (maternal uncle)
- King Haakon VII of Norway (maternal 1st cousin 1x removed)
- Prince George of Greece (paternal 1st cousin 1x removed)
- Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (maternal 1st cousin 1x removed)
- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (maternal 1st cousin 1x removed)
- Princess Dagmar of Denmark (paternal great-aunt)
- Queen Mary of the United Kingdom
She met her double third cousin who would later become her husband when she was 13 years old, during a State Visit from Greece to Denmark{Source}. They met again two years later, where Constantine declared his intentions to marry Anne-Marie{Source}. They met a third time in 1962, during the wedding of Princess Sophia of Greece to King Juan Carlos of Spain, which Anne-Marie was a bridesmaid, and Constantine was the brother-of-the bride {Source}. They met a fourth time during the centenary of the Greek Monarchy in 1963{Source}.In March 1964, her potential future father-in-law died, leaving her potential suitor to be King of the Hellenes{Source}. Four months later in July 1964, their engagement was announced, and they were wed in a ceremony on 18 September (two weeks after Anne-Marie's 18th birthday){Source}.
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