Kings of the Hellenes : the Greek kings, 1863-1974
When the Greeks deposed their unpopular, childless, German-born King Otho in 1862, their choice for the vacant throne eventually fell on William, a prince from Denmark. Despite the instability of Greece, William - who chose the regal name of King George - proved an effective and popular monarch, weathering the storms engendered by nationalist aspirations in the Balkans, and defeat by Turkey in the war of 1897. Part of the King's prestige was owing to family connections: in the year of his election to the throne his eldest sister, Alexandra, married the future King Edward VII of Britain; and four years later another sister, Dagmar, married the Tsarevich, later Tsar Alexander III of Russia
Print Book, English, 1999
Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999