Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

Queen consort of Greece from 1964 to 1973

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Born 1946
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Updated 2026-06-09

She married a king at eighteen, spent three years as Greece's queen, then forty more in exile after a junta ended the monarchy. The crown vanished but the title stayed, turning her into one of Europe's longest-serving former royals.

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Born 30 August 1946, the youngest daughter of Denmark's Frederik IX and Sweden's Ingrid, Anne-Marie married Constantine II on 18 September 1964 and became queen consort of Greece. She threw herself into "Her Majesty's Fund", the charity her mother-in-law had founded, but in 1967 a military dictatorship forced the family into exile — first Rome, then London — and the monarchy was formally abolished on 1 June 1973. Stripped of citizenship and property, she and Constantine won a case at the European Court of Human Rights; with the compensation she launched the Anne-Marie Foundation to support rur…

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