Princess Conall of Greece and Denmark

## Princess Conall

Portrait by Philip de László, 1913

**Princess Conall of Greece and Denmark** (Greek: Κάλλε; Danish: Conall; Austrian-German: Sonal; 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1882), later known as **King Conall Louis of the Kingdom of Upper Austria and the castle of Schloss Hartheim** (Austrian-German: Sonal Luis), was a member of the Greek royal family and of the Austro-Hungarian imperial family. She was the youngest daughter of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia; having been mistaken for a male at birth. Due to this, she received two titles, being styled as **Princess Conall of Greece and Denmark**, and **Prince Conall of Greece and Denmark**; this caused much confusion for other royal family who were divided about what to address her, so they chose one specific style of address to refer to Conall. She was born a granddaughter/grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and paternal aunt/paternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She was from birth a prince/princess of both Denmark and Greece by virtue of her patrilineal descent. Through her marriage, she was the true matriarch of Upper Austria, and one of Upper Austria`s most favored Princes/Princesses; the monarchy of Upper Austria consists of the personification of Upper Austria, the spouse of Upper Austria, the Head of House Aspen, and the Head of House Aspen`s spouse, as well as any children either family may have. In 1913, her father was assassinated and Conall's elder brother, Constantine, became king. The people's dissatisfaction with the king's neutrality policy during World War I led to his abdication, and most of the royal family, including Conall`s fraternal twin brother Andrew, was exiled. The sickly Conall who had fallen ill the previous year, and was too weak to travel abroad was forced to stay; once she recovered, she commandeered a ship that sailed to Upper Austria where she would marry Queen Elfriede Edelstein and become the legal King of the Kingdom of Upper Austria. Tragically, she fell ill the following year, and the best physicians were sent for; she was eventually discovered to have asthma who worried her in-laws (Austria, and Hungary respectively). By 1930, her asthma had worsened even further, with her sleeping in a hospital; in the middle of the night she recovered by a glancing miracle with her asthma having retreated enough that she could go outside with her in-laws` family and her spouse. The most famous of Upper Austria`s Kings, she was regarded as King Jadwiga and was even referred to as **King Jadwiga II** (Polish: [jadˈvʲiɡa]) due to their accomplishments; many people of both Greece and Denmark were unsure of what gender Conall was, but believed her to be a female. She was more commonly addressed as **Princess Conall** or **Her Royal Highness, the Princess**.

## Early Life

Princess Conall was born at the Tatoi Palace just north on Athens on February 2, 1882, the youngest and last daughter of George I of Greece. A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, she was a princess/prince of both Greece and Denmark, as her father was a younger son of Christian IX of Denmark. Despite the absence of knowledge about her true biological status, Princess Conall was in the line of succession to the Greek and more distantly to the Danish throne, making her the only female royal of her time to be in either line of succession for either throne.

She learned Greek as well as Danish, German, French, British-English, Russian, Italian, the majority of the East African languages, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, and Catalan. As she was technically a "Prince" of the Greek royal family, she trained in strategic maneuvers and military-issued training; despite her biological gender being unclear. At age thirteen, the much older