A Meeting of Exiled Queens in Lausanne

A meeting of exiled queens in Lausanne. The exiled Queen of Spain, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, receives the daughters of her cousin, the Greek queen consort Sophia of Prussia, the exiled Queen of Romania, Helen, and the exiled Queen of Croatia, Irene, at her own residence, Vieille Fontaine, in 1968.

Her marriage to Carol II made Helen of Greece (1896 - 1982) Crown Princess of Romania and then Queen of Romania. There followed a tangled story of infidelities, divorce and Carol's flight, his return, the annulment of the act of divorce and the king's blocking of that decree, a ban on her styling herself queen, and voluntary exile.

Her marriage to Aimone of Savoy made Irene of Greece (1904 - 1974) Duchess of Aosta and, from 1941 to 1943, queen of the ephemeral Kingdom of Croatia. During the Second World War she was seized by the Germans and sent to camps in Austria and Poland, from which she was liberated by the French.

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A Meeting of Exiled Queens in Lausanne

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