Royal Dinner at the Hotel Grande Bretagne | Wedding Ball | Wedding Ball at the Royal Palace of Athens | Royal Party on ‘Cape St. Vincent’ | Wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece
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Six Kings and Nine Queens were among the Royal Guests and Relatives from around Europe who joined the Greek and Spanish Royal Families for the Wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in Athens on this day in 1962 (60 years ago), and were led by King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece with Crown Prince Constantine and Princess Irene as well as Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain with the Count and Countess of Barcelona, along with Infanta Margarita and Infanta Pilar.
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The Sovereign Guests were King Olav V of Norway, Queen Ingrid of Denmark, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, King Umberto II and Queen Marie José of Italy, King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania with Queen Helen of Romania, Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco, Prince Franz Josef II and Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Joséphine Charlotte of Luxembourg, and the Count and Countess of Paris.
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The Families of Bride and Groom were well represented by Queen Helen of Romania, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta with Prince Amedeo, the Duke of Aosta, Princess Katherine of Greece, Princess Marie of Greece, Princess Alice of Greece, Princess Eugénie, Duchess of Castel Duino, Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł, and Prince Michael of Greece, the Prince and Princess of Hanover, Prince George William of Hanover and Princess Sophie of Greece, Prince Christian Oscar, Prince Welf Henry of Hanover. The extended Spanish and Bourbon Royal Families included Infanta Beatriz, Princess of Civitella-Cesi, Infanta María Cristina, Countess Marone, Infante José-Eugene of Bavaria and the Countess of Odiel, the Duke of Galliera, the Duke and Duchess of Calabria, Princess María de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski.
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Other Royal Guests included Crown Princess Margrethe, Princess Benedikte, and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, Crown Princess Beatrix, Princess Irene, and Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, Princess Sibylla, Princess Margaretha, Princess Désirée, and Princess Christina of Sweden, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent with Princess Alexandra and Prince Michael, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Prince of Naples, Princess Maria Gabriella and Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, and Princess Margaret of Denmark and Bourbon-Parma.
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Members of former Royal Families included Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden with Prince Ludwig of Baden, the Duke of Bavaria, Prince Pedro Gastão and Princess María de la Esperanza of Orléans-Braganza, Princess Anne and Princess Claude of Orléans, the Landgrave of Hesse, the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg with the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Beatrix, the Duke and Duchess of Ancona, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Duke of Parma, the Duke and Duchess of Braganza, the Duke and Duchess of Württemberg with the Hereditary Duke and Princess Diane, Hereditary Duchess of Württemberg, Prince and Princess Friedrich Karl of Windisch-Grätz, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia and Princess Margarita of Baden, the Duchess of Alba, and the Marquess and Marchioness of Blandford
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The bridesmaids were Princess Irene of Greece, Princess Benedikte, and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, Princess Alexandra of Kent, Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Infanta Pilar of Spain, and Princess Anne d’Orléans. The Crown Bearers were Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, the Duke of Aosta, the Prince of Naples, the Duke of Noto, Prince Ludwig of Baden, Don Marco Alfonso Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi and Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover.
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Royal Dinner at the Hotel Grande Bretagne | Wedding Ball | Wedding Ball at the Royal Palace of Athens | Royal Party on ‘Cape St. Vincent’ | Wedding of Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece
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I am surprised not to see, among the Royal guests… Queen Frederica’s mother… Viktoria-Luise, the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. She was the Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg.
I always thought Crown Price Constantine looked so handsome leaning against the column in the second to last photo. I imagine many ladies waited hours his attention.