The wives of the Crown Prince of Greece and of Alexandre Egon, Prinz zu Fürstenberg
their double cousinship with Jean Margaret (Kennedy) Mitchelson through the Howland family
Marie-Chantal, the middle daughter, is the wife of Crown Prince (in exile) Pavel of Greece. Their wedding, celebrated on 1 July 1995 in London (where the Greek royal family has lived in exile in London since 1974 when their country adopted a constitutional government), with 1,400 guests and rumored to have cost $5.5 million, was described as the biggest gathering of royalty since 1948, when Queen Elizabeth married Prince Philip, and was attended by Queen Elizabeth herself. The elegant couple, now living in New York City, has been extensively photographed in magazines. |
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John Howland Arthur Howland
= Elizabeth Tilley = Margaret (----) Walker
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Desire Howland Isaac Howland Deborah Howland
=John Gorham = Elizabeth Vaughan = Lieut. John Smith
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Desire Gorham Priscilla Howland Hassadiah Smith
= John Hawes = Peter Bennett = Jonathan Russell
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Experience Hawes | Deborah Russell
= (1) Lieut. Ebenezer Sproat | = Benjamin Allen
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Thankful Sproat ===== (1) Lieut. Joseph Dorothy Allen
____| Bennett = William Wilcox
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Elizabeth Bennett Benjamin Wilcox
(1731-1782) (1737-1816)
= John Morton (1724-1784) = Elsie Lanning (1739-1805)
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Hannah Morton (1753- ca. 1843) Daniel Wilcox (ca. 1771-1857)
= Abiel Edson (ca. 1753 - 1823) = Mary McIntyre (1775-1816)
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John Morton Edson (1784-) Jemima Wilcox (1801-1876)
= Mary Fairbrother = Francis Comfort (1800-1880)
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John Morton Edson Jr. (1822-1896) Margaret Comfort (1833-1916)
= Mary H. Stevens (1822?-1890) = John Kennedy (IV) (1832-1897)
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Mary Helen Edson (1850-) John Kennedy (V) (1862-1939)
= George Henry Appleton Susanna Samantha Helena Young
(1839-1913) (1882-1937)
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Blanche Louise Appleton Jean Margaret Kennedy
(1872-1955) (1917-2000)
= Ellis John Springer Miller = Richard Harry Mitchelson, Jr.
of Concord, Mass. (1914-1998),
(1867-1906) of Winnipeg, Manitoba
_______| (my natural grandparents)
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Ellis Warren Appleton Miller = Sophia June Squarebriggs
1898-1986 | 1899-1998
of Quincy, Mass. |
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Robert Warren Miller = Marie-Chantal
1933- | Pesantes
duty-free billionaire | from Ecuador
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Marie-Chantal Miller (1968-) Alexandra Miller (1972-)
= Pavel, (1967-) = Alexandre Egon,
Crown Prince (in exile) of Greece prinz zu Fürstenberg
(eldest son of Konstantinos II, (son of Egon zu Fürstenberg
deposed King of Greece) & Diana Halfin, the famous
| fashion designers)
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Princess Prince Prince Talita-Natasha Tassilo
Maria-Olympia Constantine Alexios Achileas Andreas b. 1999 b. 2001
b. 25 July 1996 b. 29 October 1998 b. 2000
Sources: The Howland to Miller descents were investigated by Julie Helen Otto and William Addams Reitwiesner in Some ancestry of the Miller sisters, an admirable piece of work, and are also presented in Gary Boyd Roberts, Notable Kin: an anthology of columns first published in the NEHGS NEXUS, 2 vols. (Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 1998, 1999), 1:22, 25-6. We have made little independent investigation of it, but have mainly added a few details on the latest generations, taken mainly from various magazine articles and webpages. Our sources include:
- Elizabeth Pearson White, John Howland of the Mayflower, the first five generations (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1990-), 1:1-8, 9-12, 13-14, 48-49, 206-7, for the lineage of Thankful Sproat.
- “Sister Act,” Vogue, July 95, available online at http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/millers/vogsisact.html, with accompanying photographs at http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/millers/seidner.html.
- “Weddings of the year,” People, vol. 44, issue 4 (24 July 1995), pp. 50 ff.
- The Greek Royal Family <http://www.christinesroyalty.net/royalfamilies/greece/index.html>, with a biography of Crown Princess Maria of Greece <http://www.christinesroyalty.net/royalfamilies/greece/mariechantal.html>.
- Alexis Bondoc, Alex’s Miller Sisters Page <http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/millers/start.html>.
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From Paul Theroff’s Online Gotha:
Greece <http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/greece.html>;
Fürstenberg <http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/furstenberg.html>.
We are grateful to Richard Carruthers, of Vancouver, British Columbia, for pointing out a missing generation in an earlier version of these notes.
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This page written 1 January 2001
Last revised 5 February 2007