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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3139

Autographs
Russia
Grand Duchess Olga Constantinova, Queen of Greece
1867 three page autograph letter signed "Olga", written in French from Pavlovsk, St Petersburg to Prince Orloff in the months preceding her marriage to the young King George I of Greece.


"My dear Prince,

Please accept my sincere thanks for your charming attentions and magnificent goodbyes that you have given me.

I can express to you that it gives me great pleasure that you are thinking of me…It may interest you to know of our travels this summer. After the engagement happened on 26th we are planning on going to Copenhagen and we will stay there for some time. Papa (Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievich) will stay with us for one week and then he will go to I'ansperi in Paris. From Copenhagen we will go to see Grandpapa and then maybe Wurttemburg to see Olga and then see our dear Vera.

As happy as I am I think however that there are trying times ahead of us…"



A rare and early letter from the future Grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Photo

Grand Duchess Olga Constantinova, a granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, was married to the Danish born King George I of Greece in 1867. She had an unhappy beginning in Greece but soon became respected for social and charitable work. Eight children were born of the marriage. King George I was assassinated in Salonika in 1913. Queen Olga returned to Russia but escaped during the revolution to Switzerland. Her son, King Constantine I had been deposed so she was unable to return to Greece. She died in exile in 1926 and is buried in the Royal Cemetery at Tatoi Palace, Greece.


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