- Awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1913 by King George V for her work as a nurse during the Balkan Wars.
- Great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
- During World War II, she sheltered Jewish refugees, for which she was recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Yad Vashem in 1994. After the war, she founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.
- Great-Grandmother of Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Prince William of Wales, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie.
- Buried at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene (Gethsemane, Jerusalem) as per her wishes. [August 3, 1988].
- Great-Great-Grandmother of Prince George of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
- In 1930, after suffering a severe nervous breakdown, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia; her doctor consulted with Sigmund Freud. Released two years later, she returned to Athens alone in 1938 to work with the poor, living in a two-bedroom flat near the Benaki Museum.
- Met her future husband at the coronation of King Edward VII.
- Cousin of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Tsarevitch Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov.
- Sister-in-law of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
- Mother of Prince Philip. Mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II. Daughter-in-law of King George of Greece and Queen Olga. Sister-in-law of King Constantine.
- She had been estranged from her husband Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark for 13 years when he died in 1944. They only met once during that time, at the funeral of their daughter Cecilie in 1937.
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