 Her adolescence was marked by her father's imprisonment in 1967 at the hands of the Greek military junta, and her family's subsequent house arrest until they managed to leave Greece in 1968.She subsequently lived in exile in Paris together with her parents and three siblings (Dora, Katerina and Kyriakos) until they were able to return to Greece in 1974, following the restoration of democracy.After finishing her German Abitur (secondary-school diploma) in Athens, Alexandra earned her university degree in political science at the Institute of Political Studies ("Sciences Po") in Paris.