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Posted by SarahN
on July 25, 2012, 6:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Princess Françoise of Greece wearing the turquoises"
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What happened to the money Prince Christopher had received from his first wife - did he spend it all, or bad investments during the Depression?
--Previous Message--
: Princess Françoise's son, Prince Michael of
: Greece, writes in his book "Mémoires
: insolites", that his father died
: pennyless when he was only one year old.
:
: The widowed Princess Françoise was obliged
: to sell the family jewels, and also the
: Villa Anastasia in Rome was sold (it had
: been bought with the money of Christopher's
: first wife Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds -
: Princess Anastasia of Greece) .
:
: When Michael's maternal grand-mother died in
: 1961 he inherited his share of the Orléans
: fortune, which in those years was quite
: considerable.
:
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