Elisabeth of Romania


Elisabeth of Romania was a queen consort of Greece the wife of King George II of Greece, from 1921 to 1935.

She was born in the Pele Castle in October 1894, the daughter of King Ferdinand of Romania and his wife, Queen Marie of Romania. Lisabetha or Lizzy, as she was called by her family, was baptized in the Greek Orthodox religion of her country, as the Romanian Constitution required. The Vatican reacted adversely to the Orthodox christening of the second child of Ferdinand, the Catholic Crown Prince of Romania, and as a result he was excommunicated.

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