Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (; born 10 July 1965) is the eldest child of King Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Denmark, who were King and Queen of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973. She was heiress presumptive to the Greek throne from her birth in 1965 until the birth of her brother Crown Prince Pavlos in 1967.
Early life
Alexia was born on 10 July 1965 at Mon Repos, a villa on the Greek island of Corfu used at the time as a summer residence by the Greek royal family. She was the first child born to the then King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes. At the time of her birth, her father was King of Greece, her grandfather was King of Denmark, and her great-grandfather was King of Sweden.
As the monarch's only child, between her own birth and the birth on 20 May 1967 of her brother Pavlos, Alexia was heir presumptive to the throne of the Hellenes, then an existing monarchy. The Greek Constitution of 1952 had changed Greece's order of succession to the throne from Salic law to male-preference primogeniture.
Alexia grew up in exile and was raised in between Rome and London. Before her education at the Hellenic College of London, she attended the Miss Surtee’s School for Boys and Girls in Rome, Italy. After Hellenic College, she went to the Froebel College of the Roehampton Institute, a division of the University of Surrey, in 1985 and took a BA in History and Education in 1988. In 1989, she achieved a Post Graduate Certificate of Education and became a primary school teacher in the inner city area of Southwark in London between 1989 and 1992 before moving to Barcelona where she became a teacher of children with developmental disabilities.
Marriage and children
On 9 July 1999, Alexia married Carlos Javier Morales Quintana, an architect and a champion yachtsman, at St. Sophia Cathedral, London. The princess wore a gown by the Austrian designer Inge Sprawson. Her attendants were her sister Princess Theodora, her niece Princess Maria-Olympia, and Princess Mafalda, daughter of Kyril, Prince of Preslav, a son of former King Simeon of Bulgaria.
The couple have four children:
Arrietta Morales y de Grecia (b. 24 February 2002, Barcelona) Anna-Maria Morales y de Grecia (b. 15 May 2003, Barcelona) Carlos Morales y de Grecia (b. 30 July 2005, Barcelona) Amelia Morales y de Grecia (b. 26 October 2007, Barcelona)
Alexia and her family now live in her husband's homeland, at Puerto Calero marina, Yaiza, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, in a house designed by her husband.
Titles and styles
10 July 1965 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
Honours
Greek Royal Family: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer
Greek Royal Family: Dame Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of Saints Olga and Sophia (by birth)
Ancestry
References
Other websites
1965 births
Living people
People from Corfu
Greek princes and princesses
Danish princes and princesses
House of Glücksburg (Greece) Special educators People from Lanzarote Exiled royalty