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- Aspasia Manou (Greek: Ασπασία Μάνου; 4 September 1896 – 7 August 1972) was a Greek aristocrat who became the wife of Alexander I, King of Greece.
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Aspasia Manou ( Greek: Ασπασία Μάνου; 4 September 1896 – 7 August 1972) was a Greek aristocrat who became the wife of Alexander I, King of Greece.
Feb 28, 2024 · Aspasia Manos (Greek: Ασπασία Μάνου) (4 September 1896 - 7 August 1972), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of Alexander I, King of the Hellenes. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.
- September 04, 1896
- Athens, Greece
- She Had Bragging Rights. Aspasia was born in Athens on September 4, 1896. Both her parents, Petros Manos and Maria Argyropoulos, were descendants of the highest-ranking Greek Phanariot families of Constantinople and the rulers of Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia.
- She Studied Abroad. Between 1912 and 1913, Aspasia’s family was torn apart when her parents divorced. Petros remarried almost immediately while Maria retained custody of Aspasia and her younger sister Roxane.
- She Lost A Staring Contest. In 1915, at a party hosted by a palace official, Aspasia caught the eye of Prince Alexander of Greece, and then some. Seated across from one another at dinner, Alexander would not stop staring at her—to the point where guests got uncomfortable.
- She Was A Beauty. Aspasia was now 19 and uncommonly beautiful. She had luminous brown eyes, a dark complexion, and a “profile like a nymph on a classical Greek frieze.”
Sep 16, 2023 · On 17 November 1919, a besotted King Alexander I secretly married Aspasia Manos, the daughter of Constantine I's aide-de-camp Colonel Petros Manos and his first wife, Maria. The royal family and the government disapproved of this unequal-status marriage; she was a mere commoner.
Aspasia Manos, Princess Alexander of Greece. Aspasia Manos was the wife of King Alexander of the Hellenes. She was born on September 4, 1896, in Athens, Greece to Colonel Petros Manos and Maria Argyropoulos, and grew up around the Greek royal family as her father was an aide to King Constantine I.
Aug 7, 2022 · The daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and Maria Argyropoulos, Aspasia Manos grew up in Athens and studied in France and Switzerland, she was childhood friends with members of the Greek Royal Family, and by 1915, became secretly engaged to Prince Alexander of Greece, the second son of King Constantine I of Greece and Princess Sophia of Prussia ...
Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark (née Aspasia Manou Greek: Ασπασία Μάνου; 4 September 1896 – 7 August 1972) was a Greek aristocrat who became the wife of Alexander I, King of Greece.
