Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark

Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ευγενία, romanized: Evyenía; 10 February 1910 – 13 February 1989) was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Marie-Félix Blanc and Prince Roland Bonaparte, a great-nephew of Napoleon I. Her father was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia.

Princess Eugénie
Princess Dominik Radziwiłł
Duchess of Castel Duino
Princess Eugenie as a child
Born(1910-02-10)10 February 1910
Paris, France
Died13 February 1989(1989-02-13) (aged 79)
Geneva, Switzerland
Spouse
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    Issue
    HouseGlücksburg
    FatherPrince George of Greece and Denmark
    MotherMarie Bonaparte
    ReligionRoman Catholicism

    As a cousin of the bridegroom, she was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[1]

    She authored Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr, a biography of Aleksey Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, written in French, which was published in 1990.

    Marriage and issue

    She married Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł, member of the House of Radziwiłł (and son of Archduchess Renata of Austria), on 30 May 1938 in Paris. They divorced in 1946. They had two children:[2]

    Eugénie remarried on 28 November 1949 to Prince Raymundo della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino, a cadet member of the House of Thurn and Taxis. Their marriage also ended in divorce, in 1965. They had one son:

    Ancestry

    Honours

    References
    1. Royal Collection: Seating plan for the Ball Supper Room http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/royalwedding1947/object.asp?grouping=&exhibs=NONE&object=9000366&row=82&detail=magnify
    2. "Genealogy". Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
    3. Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia, Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166.
    4. "Untitled Document". 25 August 2004. Archived from the original on 25 August 2004.
    5. Coronation of Elizabeth II Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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