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'''Aspasia Manou''' ([[4 September]] [[1896]]-[[7 August]] [[1972]]), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of [[King Alexander I|Alexander I, King of the Hellenes]]. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled '''Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark''' rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.

Aspasia Manou was born in [[Athens]], the daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and his wife, Maria Argyropoulou (1874-1930). Her family descended, in part, from [[Phanariote]] Greeks living in [[Constantinople]].

Some of her ancestors had been leaders during the Greek [[War of Independence]], some had been Hellenic leaders in Constantinople for centuries under the Ottoman Empire and some had even been reigning princes of Danubian provinces. She belonged to one of Greece's most aristocratic families, but was not considered a suitable consort for a Greek king by those who expected royalty to marry only royalty.

== Princess of Greece and Denmark ==
On [[4 November]] [[1919]], at [[Tatoi]], Aspasia Manos married King Alexander in a secret, [[Wedding#Types|civil wedding]].<ref>{{cite book| editor = Hueck, Walter von| title = Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Fürstliche Häuser Band XIII| date = 1987| publisher = C. A. Starke| location = Limburg an der Lahn| language = German| pages = p.33}}</ref> Their marriage caused a scandal, and the couple was forced to temporarily flee to Paris. She never took the title of Queen, being known as ''Madame Manou'' by those aware of the marriage.<ref>{{cite book| author = Diesbach, Ghislain de| others = translated from the French by Margaret Crosland| title = Secrets of the Gotha| year = 1967| publisher = Chapman & Hall| location = London| pages = p. 225}}</ref> Alexander lived less than a year after the wedding. His father, King [[Constantine I]], was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned from exile. His government officially treated the brief reign of his late son as a regency, which meant that Alexander's marriage, contracted without his father's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void, and the couple's child, born after King Alexander's death, illegitimate.

At the behest of Alexander's mother, [[Queen Sophia]], a law was passed in July [[1922]] which allowed the King to retroactively recognize marriages of members of the Royal Family, although on a non-dynastic basis.<ref>{{cite book| author = Diesbach, Ghislain de| others = translated from the French by Margaret Crosland| title = Secrets of the Gotha| year = 1967| publisher = Chapman & Hall| location = London| pages = p. 225}}</ref> Thereupon King Constantine issued a decree, [[Gazette|gazette]]d [[10 September]] 1922, recognizing the marriage of Alexander to Aspasia. Henceforth, she and her daughter were accorded the title "Princess of Greece and Denmark" and the style of ''Royal Highness''.<ref>{{cite book| editor = Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh| title = Burke's Guide to the Royal Family| date = 1973-03-06| publisher = Burke's Peerage | location = London| id = ISBN 0-220-66222-3}}</ref> This title was customarily borne by non-reigning members of the Greek Royal Family, who also happened to be members of a cadet branch of the reigning dynasty of Denmark.

Aspasia and Alexander were the parents of only one child, [[Alexandra of Greece|Princess Alexandra]], born five months after Alexander's death at Tatoi (her father having died of sepsis following a monkey bite). Alexandra would later marry Peter II, King of Yugoslavia.

Aspasia Manos and her daughter were the only members of the [[Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Glücksburg]] dynasty, the Greek Royal House, to be of recent [[Greeks|Greek]] descent. Like most European royal families by the 20th century, the Glücksburgs were predominantly German in descent, but had some Greek blood dating back to the Middle Ages through the royal [[Byzantine empire|Byzantine]] ancestry of the Greek Royal Family.

Due to the combination of her daughter and son-in-law's health problems, financially straitened circumstances and troubled marriage, Aspasia acted as guardian to her grandson Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (born 1945).<ref>{{cite book| author = Diesbach, Ghislain de| others = translated from the French by Margaret Crosland| title = Secrets of the Gotha| year = 1967| publisher = Chapman & Hall| location = London| pages = p. 337}}</ref> She raised him mostly in [[England]]. She had the pleasure, just a month before her death, of seeing Alexander marry a royal Franco-Brazilian, Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza.

She died in Venice, and was initially interred at the cemetery of San Michele island near Venice. Her remains were later transferred to the royal cemetery Plot in the park of [[Tatoi]] near Dekeleia (23 km north of [[Athens]].)

Her living descendants include her only grandson Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia and her three great-grandsons Prince Peter of Yugoslavia, Prince Philip of Yugoslavia and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.

==External links==
* [http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00029841&tree=LEO&parentset=0&display=standard&generations=7 Brief overview on Ancestry]

==References==
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[[Category:House of Glücksburg|Manos, Aspasia]]
[[Category:1893 births|Manos, Aspasia]]
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-'''Aspasia Manou''' ([[4 September]] [[1896]]-[[7 August]] [[1972]]), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of [[King Alexander|Alexander I, King of the Hellenes]]. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled '''Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark''' rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.
+'''Aspasia Manou''' ([[September 4]], [[1896]]-[[August 7]] [[1972]]), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of [[King Alexander|Alexander I, King of the Hellenes]]. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled '''Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark''' rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.
 Aspasia Manou was born in [[Athens]], the daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and his wife, Maria Argyropoulou (1874-1930). Her family descended, in part, from [[Phanariote]] Greeks living in [[Constantinople]].
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 == Princess of Greece and Denmark ==
-On [[4 November]] [[1919]], at [[Tatoi]], Aspasia Manos married King Alexander in a secret  wedding.<ref>Hueck, Walter von, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Fürstliche Häuser Band XIII (1987), C. A. Starke, pages = p.33</ref> Their marriage caused a scandal, and the couple was forced to temporarily flee to Paris. She never took the title of Queen, being known as ''Madame Manou'' by those aware of the marriage.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967), Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Alexander lived less than a year after the wedding. His father, King [[Constantine I]], was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned from exile. His government officially treated the brief reign of his late son as a regency, which meant that Alexander's marriage, contracted without his father's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void, and the couple's child, born after King Alexander's death, illegitimate.
+On [[November 4]], [[1919]], at [[Tatoi]], Aspasia Manos married King Alexander in a secret  wedding.<ref>Hueck, Walter von, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Fürstliche Häuser Band XIII (1987), C. A. Starke, pages = p.33</ref> Their marriage caused a scandal, and the couple was forced to temporarily flee to Paris. She never took the title of Queen, being known as ''Madame Manou'' by those aware of the marriage.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967), Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Alexander lived less than a year after the wedding. His father, King [[Constantine I]], was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned from exile. His government officially treated the brief reign of his late son as a regency, which meant that Alexander's marriage, contracted without his father's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void, and the couple's child, born after King Alexander's death, illegitimate.
-At the behest of Alexander's mother, [[Queen Sophia]], a law was passed in July [[1922]] which allowed the King to retroactively recognize marriages of members of the Royal Family, although on a non-dynastic basis.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967),  Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Thereupon King Constantine issued a decree, gazetted [[10 September]] 1922, recognizing the marriage of Alexander to Aspasia. Henceforth, she and her daughter were accorded the title "Princess of Greece and Denmark" and the style of ''Royal Highness''.<ref>Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, Burke's Guide to the Royal Family (1973), Burke's Peerage, London, id = ISBN 0-220-66222-3</ref> This title was customarily borne by non-reigning members of the Greek Royal Family, who also happened to be members of a cadet branch of the reigning dynasty of Denmark.
+At the behest of Alexander's mother, [[Queen Sophia]], a law was passed in July [[1922]] which allowed the King to retroactively recognize marriages of members of the Royal Family, although on a non-dynastic basis.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967),  Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Thereupon King Constantine issued a decree, gazetted [[September 10]], [[1922]], recognizing the marriage of Alexander to Aspasia. Henceforth, she and her daughter were accorded the title "Princess of Greece and Denmark" and the style of ''Royal Highness''.<ref>Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, Burke's Guide to the Royal Family (1973), Burke's Peerage, London, id = ISBN 0-220-66222-3</ref> This title was customarily borne by non-reigning members of the Greek Royal Family, who also happened to be members of a cadet branch of the reigning dynasty of Denmark.
 Aspasia and Alexander were the parents of only one child, [[Alexandra of Greece|Princess Alexandra]], born five months after Alexander's death at Tatoi (her father having died of sepsis following a monkey bite). Alexandra would later marry Peter II, King of Yugoslavia.
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 Aspasia Manos and her daughter were the only members of the [[Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Glücksburg]] dynasty, the Greek Royal House, to be of recent [[Greeks|Greek]] descent. Like most European royal families by the 20th century, the Glücksburgs were predominantly German in descent, but had some Greek blood dating back to the Middle Ages through the royal [[Byzantine empire|Byzantine]] ancestry of the Greek Royal Family.
-Due to the combination of her daughter and son-in-law's health problems, financially straitened circumstances and troubled marriage, Aspasia acted as guardian to her grandson Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (born 1945).<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha, (1967), Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 337</ref> She raised him mostly in England. She had the pleasure, just a month before her death, of seeing Alexander marry a royal Franco-Brazilian, Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza.
+Due to the combination of her daughter and son-in-law's health problems, financially straitened circumstances and troubled marriage, Aspasia acted as guardian to her grandson Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (born [[July 17]], [[1945]]).<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha, (1967), Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 337</ref> She raised him mostly in England. She had the pleasure, just a month before her death, of seeing Alexander marry a royal Franco-Brazilian, Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza.
 She died in Venice, and was initially interred at the cemetery of San Michele island near Venice. Her remains were later transferred to the royal cemetery Plot in the park of [[Tatoi]] near Dekeleia (23 km north of [[Athens]].)

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 == Princess of Greece and Denmark ==
-On [[4 November]] [[1919]], at [[Tatoi]], Aspasia Manos married King Alexander in a secret, civil wedding.<ref>Hueck, Walter von, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Fürstliche Häuser Band XIII (1987), C. A. Starke, pages = p.33</ref> Their marriage caused a scandal, and the couple was forced to temporarily flee to Paris. She never took the title of Queen, being known as ''Madame Manou'' by those aware of the marriage.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967), Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Alexander lived less than a year after the wedding. His father, King [[Constantine I]], was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned from exile. His government officially treated the brief reign of his late son as a regency, which meant that Alexander's marriage, contracted without his father's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void, and the couple's child, born after King Alexander's death, illegitimate.
+On [[4 November]] [[1919]], at [[Tatoi]], Aspasia Manos married King Alexander in a secret  wedding.<ref>Hueck, Walter von, Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Fürstliche Häuser Band XIII (1987), C. A. Starke, pages = p.33</ref> Their marriage caused a scandal, and the couple was forced to temporarily flee to Paris. She never took the title of Queen, being known as ''Madame Manou'' by those aware of the marriage.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967), Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Alexander lived less than a year after the wedding. His father, King [[Constantine I]], was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned from exile. His government officially treated the brief reign of his late son as a regency, which meant that Alexander's marriage, contracted without his father's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void, and the couple's child, born after King Alexander's death, illegitimate.
 At the behest of Alexander's mother, [[Queen Sophia]], a law was passed in July [[1922]] which allowed the King to retroactively recognize marriages of members of the Royal Family, although on a non-dynastic basis.<ref>Diesbach, Ghislain de, Secrets of the Gotha (1967),  Chapman & Hall, London, pages = p. 225</ref> Thereupon King Constantine issued a decree, gazetted [[10 September]] 1922, recognizing the marriage of Alexander to Aspasia. Henceforth, she and her daughter were accorded the title "Princess of Greece and Denmark" and the style of ''Royal Highness''.<ref>Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, Burke's Guide to the Royal Family (1973), Burke's Peerage, London, id = ISBN 0-220-66222-3</ref> This title was customarily borne by non-reigning members of the Greek Royal Family, who also happened to be members of a cadet branch of the reigning dynasty of Denmark.

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−	'''Aspasia Manou''' ([[4 September]] [[1896]]-[[7 August]] [[1972]]), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of [[King Alexander I\|Alexander I, King of the Hellenes]]. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled '''Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark''' rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.	+	'''Aspasia Manou''' ([[4 September]] [[1896]]-[[7 August]] [[1972]]), was a Greek commoner who became the wife of [[King Alexander\|Alexander I, King of the Hellenes]]. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled '''Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark''' rather than Queen Aspasia of Greece.

	Aspasia Manou was born in [[Athens]], the daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and his wife, Maria Argyropoulou (1874-1930). Her family descended, in part, from [[Phanariote]] Greeks living in [[Constantinople]].		Aspasia Manou was born in [[Athens]], the daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and his wife, Maria Argyropoulou (1874-1930). Her family descended, in part, from [[Phanariote]] Greeks living in [[Constantinople]].

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