had been massacred. Before dying, she made her grandson, King George II, swear to repatriate the body of her daughter Princess Alexandra, buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Her wish was fulfilled in 1940 after his restoration to the Greek throne. Ancestors Notes References External links |- 1851 births 1926 deaths 19th-century Greek people 19th-century Greek women 19th-century people from the Russian Empire 19th-century women from the Russian Empire 20th-century regents of Greece 20th-century Greek women 20th-century Russian people 20th-century Russian women Burials at Tatoi Palace Royal Cemetery Eastern Orthodox Christians from Greece Eastern Orthodox Christians from Russia 20th-century women rulers Greek queens consort House of Glücksburg (Greece) House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Greece Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Switzerland Modern Greek language Regents of Greece Russian grand duchesses Russian people of German descent Russian women of World War I Members of the Royal Red Cross 20th-century rulers in Europe Queen mothers