Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinova, Queen of Greece (3 September 1851 - 18 June 1926) married King George I of Greece.
A granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and cousin of the reigning Tsar, Olga was the daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich Romanov and Alexandra Iosifovna. She met the young king during his trip to Russia to meet with his sister Dagmar, consort to Tsar Alexander III. They fell in love and married in 1867, when she was sixteen years old.
Together they had eight children:
She was acting Regent after her grandson, Alexander I died on 25 October, 1920 of a monkey bite, until her son Contantine returned to take over the throne a second time. He had reigned before from 1913 to 1917 and again from 1920 to 1922.
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