Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark; 13 December 1906 - 27 August 1968) was a member of the British Royal Family; the wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George V and Queen Mary.
She was not a queen but was a princess. She originally came from Athens.
2007-08-18 05:36:55
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answered by Retired 7
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To the best of my knowledge, there never was a Greek Queen of England.
The late Queen Mother, whose daughter Elizabeth II is current Queen Regnant, was of the Scottish nobility. Queen Mary, her mother-in-law, was a German princess, and Queen Alexandra was a princess of Denmark. That takes us back to Queen Victoria; her antecedents of the House of Hanover invariably married princesses from Germany. The last Stuart king's second wife was an Italian noblewoman (that would have been James II--his first wife was English) and his brother (Charles II), whom he succeeded, married a Portuguese princess.
Let's see--their father married a French princess, and his father married, I think, a Danish princess--no Greeks there.
The last Tudor king (Edward VI) never married, and he was the product of his father's third marriage--to an Englishwoman. His sisters, who succeeded him, were respectively the daughter of Henry VIII's first marriage to the Spanish Catherine of Aragon and his second marriage to another Englishwoman, Anne Boleyn.
Most of the Plantagenet consorts were either French or English.
Now, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Elizabeth II, was born a Prince of Greece, but his family was overthrown. Maybe it's his mother you're thinking of, but she was never a Queen of England. I believe, however, that she was descended from Queen Victoria, making Elizabeth and Philip some sort of cousins.
2007-08-15 09:46:36
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answered by Chrispy 7
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Boudica was not Greek, she was British (Celtic).
And there has never been a Greek ruler of England, unless you count Brutus, the mythical first king of Britain who was descended from the Trojan royal family (who was related to various Greek mythical families). But that's undoubtedly myth.
2007-08-15 11:51:35
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answered by pampersguy1 5
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prince phillip the queens husband is off greek origin the queen is not
2007-08-15 10:54:42
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answered by sparks9653 6
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