Royal wedding photos

Hello dear friends,

As promised, I am posting some photos from the royal wedding we hosted on the island of Spetsai, Greece a week ago.  

The Greek Royal Family. L to R, Crown Prince Paul, Theodora, Nicolas (the groom), Alexia, Queen Anne-Marie, Philip, King Constanine. Behind them, a protrait of his grandfather, Constantine, who liberated a great part of Greece from the Turkish  occupation.

The male members of the Greek royal family arrived by boat,

the "Afroessa", a present of the King to Queen Anne-Marie for her 60th birthday.

The Afroessa

From L to R: Crown prince Paul, Prince Philip, H.M. King Constantine of the Hellenes and Prince Nicolas.

 Queen Margrete of Denmark, sister of Queen Anne-Marie, and Queen Sofia of Spain, sister of King Constantine.

Crown Prince Paul with his wife, nee Marie-Chantal Miller, and their children.

Princess Alexia, her husband Carlos Morales and their children.

The groom, his mother and father arrive in church.

Q.Anne-Marie and P.Nicolaos

King Constantine and Prince Nicolaos arrive at the monastery church, following the island's bishop and clergy.

Inside the church of St. Nicolaos

The King and Queen

Nicolaos and Tatiana

Wearing the crowns

Notice in the photo above that the "koumbari", the best men, are supposed to hold something in their hands. They were in fact holding two crowns, exact replicas of those used in the wedding of the groom's parents.

However, these were photoshopped out of the photo, so as not to stir anti-royalist emnities.

Husband and Wife

In his speech King Constantine addressing his son, concluded: 

"The advice I gave to your brother in law, Carlos, when he married Alexia, I give to you, now:

"To keep your marriage brimming, 

with love in the loving cup, 

whenever you are wrong, admit it, 

whenever you are right, shut up".