Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Greek prince
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Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece
About Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
- Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Greek: ??d??a?; Danish: Andreas; 2 February [O.S.
- 20 January] 1882 – 3 December 1944) of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia.
- He was a grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
- He was from birth a prince of both Denmark and Greece by virtue of his patrilineal descent. He began military training at an early age, and was commissioned as an officer in the Greek army.
- His command positions were substantive appointments rather than honorary, and he saw service in the Balkan Wars.
- In 1913, his father was assassinated and Andrew's elder brother, Constantine, became king.
- Dissatisfaction with his brother's neutrality policy during World War I led to his brother's abdication and most of the royal family, including Andrew, was exiled.
- On their return a few years later, Andrew saw service as Major General in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), but the war went badly for Greece, and Andrew was blamed, in part, for the loss of Greek territory.
- He was exiled for a second time in 1922, and spent most of the rest of his life in France. By 1930, he was estranged from his wife, Princess Alice of Battenberg.
- His only son, Prince Philip, served in the British navy during World War II, while all four of his daughters were married to Germans, three of whom had Nazi connections.
- Separated from his wife and son by the effects of the war, Andrew died in Monte Carlo in 1944.
- He had seen neither of them since 1939.
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