Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark

Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (; born 10 July 1965) is the eldest child of Constantine II and Anne-Marie, who were King and Queen of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973. She was heiress presumptive to the Greek throne from her birth in 1965 until the birth of her brother Crown Prince Pavlos in 1967. She was the first child born to the then King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes. At the time of her birth, her father was King of Greece, her grandfather was King of Denmark, and her great-grandfather was King of Sweden. The Greek Constitution of 1952 had changed Greece's order of succession to the throne from the previous Salic law, prevalent in much of the continent, and which precluded the succession of women, to male-preference primogeniture, which accorded succession to the throne to a female member of a dynasty if she has no brothers, similar to the then extant succession laws of the United Kingdom, Denmark and Spain.

Alexia grew up in exile and was raised in between Rome and London. In Rome, she and her brothers were tutored privately by Jon Kanellopoulos. These private lessons eventually became open to other Greek children living in Rome, and lessons would take place in their summerhouse garden rooms. before moving to Barcelona where she became a teacher of children with developmental disabilities.

Marriage and children

On 9 July 1999, Alexia married Carlos Javier Morales Quintana, an architect and a champion yachtsman, at St. Sophia Cathedral, London. In May 1999, two months before their wedding, Alexia and Carlos were involved in a yachting accident on a boat named the Alexia. Ana Maria Morales y de Grecia (b. 15 May 2003, Barcelona)

Their children's last names are "Morales y de Grecia", which translates to "Morales and of Greece", taking their father's surname and their mother's royal title.

Alexia and her family now live in her husband's native land, at Puerto Calero marina, Yaiza, Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, in a house designed by her husband. where Alexia's aunt, Queen Sofía, lives and first cousin, Felipe VI, lives and rules.

Ancestry