Greek Royal Family - Photos from the past


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Odette said:
That does not mean that Alexia and Theodora are not beautiful. They both have the aristocratic beauty and class that only true blue bloods have.
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Sorry? There were so many ugly royal born women in the past! Like in the rest of the population, some of them are pretty, some ugly and a few (!) are beautiful. Queen Anne Marie was such a beautiful lady. But, I´m awfully sorry, both her daughters are nice looking - but beautiful? Never!
Pcss Alexia, a nice person which I really like, has not very beautiful eyes; her mouth is far from being perfect and her neck is much too fat for a woman´s neck.
Would you say Queen Victoria of Britain for instance was beautiful?

Princess Grace (a born commoner!) was one of the most beautiful women I´ve ever seen. The current CPrincess of Denmark is a beautiful woman, too.
So your theory of "blue blooded" women being automatically beautiful seems to be based on prejudice;)
 
:previous: Beauty is always a very subjective thing. What one finds beautiful does not mean the other person will.
I saw the Queen of England at a short distance and I find her to be a beautiful woman, although she is a granny many times over. She has beautiful skin and a beauty I find exceptional.
If we start taking one's neck and the other's ears or eyes apart, we will never find beauty anywhere outside the airbrushed photos in magazines.
I stand by my previous statement. I find both Theodora and Alexia to be
beautiful ladies, like their mother the Queen.:flowers:
 
wartenberg7 said:
Pcss Alexia...has not very beautiful eyes; her mouth is far from being perfect and her neck is much too fat for a woman´s neck.
Would you say Queen Victoria of Britain for instance was beautiful?
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Ouch! Speaking of Queen Victoria, this is the type of merciless description that was common in the Victorian era. These days it's best restricted to show dogs and horses.
 
Odette said:
:previous: Beauty is always a very subjective thing. What one finds beautiful does not mean the other person will.
I saw the Queen of England at a short distance and I find her to be a beautiful woman, although she is a granny many times over. She has beautiful skin and a beauty I find exceptional.
If we start taking one's neck and the other's ears or eyes apart, we will never find beauty anywhere outside the airbrushed photos in magazines.
I stand by my previous statement. I find both Theodora and Alexia to be
beautiful ladies, like their mother the Queen.:flowers:
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I was just referring to your comment, women were automatically beautiful only because they were born royal. That was something I heavily doubted (because of some specific examples of both royal and non-royal women).
I agree with you about the Queen of Britain. That fact that she´s still good looking has probably to do with having been beautiful as a young woman!

But, however, there are more examples of royal ladies, NOT being beautiful - and their royal birth didn´t help them a bit. I´m thinking about Queen Wilhelmina and her daughter Juliana of the Netherlands (I mean, please have a look at the old photos...). All the current and not having been born royal Crown Princesses are way way more beautiful than these two ladies.
 
:previous: My comment from 2008 mentioned that they both have an aristocratic beauty and class blue bloods have.
I am glad we agree on Queen Elizabeth.
.:flowers:
 
I personally found Queen Juliana never ugly. For my taste royal ladies often have a classic beauty which I adore. I too find Alexia & Theodora beautiful, especially Theodora. Plus some of the ladies you mentioned have something special what I don't see in all those models and actresses of nowadays who look almost all the same and so "clean" that it gets boring.

For exactly the same reasons I would Lord Freddie Windsor prefer to Brad Pitt. Although there are some people out there who think he could play a Zombie in horror movie because of his big blue eyes. :D Its a question of personal taste.
 
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Hmm... You may be right. The caption says, "HRH Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark in the gardens of home at Fredensborg Palace, 24th August 1964, just before her wedding to HM King Constantine of Greece. (Photo by Lichfield/Getty Images)," but on looking closer the girl does look a little more like Benedikte. :ermm:
 
She was so beautiful in her yauth.
Now she is a beautiful woman.
She's my favourite of three sisters.
 
Thanks for posting the pre wedding photos of Queen Anne Marie- she is what I would call a "classic" beauty in youth as well as in mature years.
 
I'm agree, they have a classic beauty ... their gestures are elegants and naturals, they have very polite gestures, it can see when they walk, when they move their hands ... they are very elegants in their gestures.MAURA724, I found the picture:http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9427/queenmarie.jpg I like this pictures of Queen Anne Marie, http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2653/queenannemarieofgreece.jpg she was with Prince Pavlo, It was Corfu.She was beautiful http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4368/withpavlo.jpg
 
Philippe Egalite' said:
Do not get excited. The story is quite innocent.
Anne-Marie was very youthful with a disarming smile that had captivated the Greeks. Prime minister Geroge Papandreou, well in his 70s at the time (1960s), liked her very much.
He was famous as an orator and grandiloquent parliamentarian as well as for his wit. Jokingly, of course, he would often intentionally accord his spoken word a double entendre.
He would enjoy having dinner with the royal couple, with Anne-Marie sitting between him and her husband and the following morning Papandreou would say, "Last night, Constantine and I shared Anne-Marie" and he would be so happy, like a child.
And I made this reference only to stress the fact that Anne-Marie was very popular among all Hellenes, from the the prime minister down.
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Thanks for the clarifications.
It is a rarity that a left wing Prime Minister[a socialist] would have taken to anybody connected to the monarchy . But such was the impact of the beautiful purity of Queen Anne Marie. THis is a transliteral description which is understandible in Greek and maybe losing a meaning when translated verbatim.
 
I think you are confusing George Papandreou (prime minister in the 60s) who was a conservative centrist with his son Andreas Papandreou who was a "socialist". When Andreas Papandreou became prime-minister (in 1981), the monarchy was defunct. Btw, the current prime-minister of Greece is yet another George Papandreou, grandson of the former and son of the latter.
 
This is mostly old pictures of Anne-Marie (beginning in her childhood through the births of her own children) with a few recent ones at the end. There were quite a few that were new to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-xuzmGOpSw
 
Great link, thanks a lot Maura!!! Happy New Year!
 
Lovely video and some of the pictures are new to me as well. I think Queen Anne-Marie became even more beautiful as she grew older. :flowers:
 
it is very good picture! Princess Alexia was very beautiful
 
I think that was taken for her 18th birthday. I don't know if this was intentional or note, but the composition of the photo is identical to this one of her as a baby:


http://i47.tinypic.com/5aqfye.jpg
 
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:previous:I think it would be a neat idea if it were indeed so. Btw, that's such as precious picture of baby Alexia with her parents. Thank you for posting. She was always such a cute, chubby baby. I really liked her baby pictures, as well as her cousin Frederik's.

Btw, young Anne Marie really reminds me of actress Scarlett Johansson.
 
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