Aspasia Manos
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Princess Aspasia Manos (4 September 1896-7 August 1972) was wife of Alexander I, King of the Hellenes.
She was born in Athens in Greece, the daughter of Colonel Petros Manos and his wife Maria Argyropoulos. The family was as Greek as possible. Also, her family descended, among others, from Greek nobility of Istanbul (Phanariotes).
On 4 November 1919, at Tatoi, she married Alexander I, King of the Hellenes, the second son but became king before his eldest brother (Alexander, Prince of Greece) on his father's departure from Greece on 11 June 1917. She never took the title of Queen.
They were the parents of one child, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, born posthumously at Tatoi (her father having died of sepsis following a monkey bite), who married Peter II, King of Yugoslavia.
Princess Aspasia Manos and her daughter were the only persons with close Greek blood in the Royal Family of Greece, i.e having Greek blood from recent generations. All the others of the royal family had Greek ancestors from several centuries ago, at least of the Byzantine era.
Aspasia died in Venice in Italy and was initially interred at the cemetery of San Michele island near Venice. Her remains were later transferred to the royal cemetery Plot in the park of Tatoi, at Dekéleia (23 km north of Athens.)