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94-479: Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser ( German: [ˈfʁiːdn̩sˌʁaɪ̯x ˈʁeːgn̩ˌtaːk ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌbʊnt ˈhʊndɐtˌvasɐ] ), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection. He emigrated to the Far North of New Zealand in the 1970s, where he lived and worked for most of
188-902: A co-op apartment owner who was taken to court for installing a bay window . In 1982, Hundertwasser's only child, Heidi Trimmel, was born. He died on 19 February 2000 on board Queen Elizabeth 2 in the Pacific Ocean, from a heart attack. According to his wish he was buried in harmony with nature on his land in New Zealand, in the Garden of the Happy Dead under a tulip tree. Hundertwasser's original and unruly artistic vision expressed itself in pictorial art, environmentalism , philosophy , and design of facades , postage stamps , flags , and clothing (among other areas). The common themes in his work utilised bright colours, organic forms,
282-607: A King (translated into French the following year under the title Pour l'Amour de mon Roi ). Alexandra was always in financial need despite the relative success of the book. In 1959, she co-wrote a second book, this time about her cousin, the Duke of Edinburgh . Though it revealed nothing compromising about the Duke of Edinburgh, the book prompted the British Royal Family to distance itself from Alexandra. For some time,
376-717: A Regency Council (which had almost no activity) but opposed the return of King Peter II, who had to remain in exile with Alexandra while a government coalition dominated by the Communists was constituted in Belgrade. In this turbulent context, Alexandra gave birth to an heir, named Alexander after his two grandfathers, Alexander of Yugoslavia and Alexander of Greece . The birth took place in Suite 212 of Claridge's Hotel in Brook Street, London, on 17 July 1945. To enable
470-413: A boycott of this type of architecture, and demanded instead creative freedom of building, and the right to create individual structures. In 1972 he published the manifesto Your window right — your tree duty . Planting trees in an urban environment was to become obligatory: "If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest." Hundertwasser propagated
564-627: A credible ruse as Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic. Hundertwasser was baptized as a Catholic in 1935. To remain inconspicuous, Hundertwasser also joined the Hitler Youth . He has identified himself as "half-Jewish". Hundertwasser developed artistic skills early on. After the war, he spent three months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. At this time, he began to sign his art as Hundertwasser instead of Stowasser. He left to travel, using
658-504: A decree, gazetted 10 September 1922 under which Aspasia received the title Princess of Greece and Denmark and the style of Royal Highness . Despite these positive developments, the situation of Alexandra and her mother did not improve. Indeed, Greece experiencing a series of military defeats by Turkey and a coup d'état soon forced King Constantine I to abdicate again, this time in favor of his eldest son, Crown Prince George , on 27 September 1922. Things went from bad to worse for
752-404: A double meaning as "Peace-realm" or "Peace-rich" (in the sense of "peaceful"). Therefore, his name Friedensreich Hundertwasser translates directly into English as "Peace-Realm Hundred-Water". The other names he chose for himself, Regentag and Dunkelbunt , translate to "Rainy day" and "Darkly multi-coloured". In the early 1950s, he entered the field of architecture. Hundertwasser also worked in
846-512: A farm on the edge of Normandy . Hundertwasser married Herta Leitner in 1958 but they divorced two years later. He married again in 1962 to the Japanese artist Yuko Ikewada but she divorced him in 1966. By this time, he had gained a popular reputation for his art. In 1964 Hundertwasser bought "Hahnsäge", a former saw mill, in the sparsely populated Lower Austria's Waldviertel. There, far from the hustle and bustle and surrounded by nature, he set up
940-673: A leper. Austria needs a crown! Long live Austria! Long live the constitutional monarchy! Long live Otto von Habsburg ! - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Für die Wiederkehr der konstitutionellen Monarchie (For the Return of the Constitutional Monarchy ). Kaurinui, New Zealand, 28 March 1983; dedicated, on 14 May 1987, to Otto von Habsburg for his 75th birthday. Sources Far North District 35°13′30″S 173°30′18″E / 35.225°S 173.505°E / -35.225; 173.505 The Far North District
1034-679: A member of the European royalty in order to consolidate his position, asked her hand. However, the Greek diplomacy, which maintained complex relations with the Kingdom of Albania because of the possession of Northern Epirus , rejected this proposal and King Zog I eventually married the Hungarian Countess Géraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Appony in 1938. Alexandra attended numerous dances, which aimed to introduce her to
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#17327801494831128-611: A new home. He spent some time in the 1960s in the Tooro Kingdom in Uganda , Central Africa, where he painted a number of works and named them after the kingdom. In 1972 Hundertwasser incorporated a stock company, the "Grüner Janura AG", in Switzerland; in 2008 it was renamed as "Namida AG". Hundertwasser managed his intellectual property rights through this company. In the 1970s, Hundertwasser acquired several properties in
1222-498: A new unfurling silver fern frond and symbolizing new life, growth, strength and peace according to the Māori people . Even though Hundertwasser first achieved notoriety for his boldly-coloured paintings, he is more widely known for his individual architectural designs. These designs use irregular forms, and incorporate natural features of the landscape. The Hundertwasserhaus apartment block in Vienna has undulating floors ("an uneven floor
1316-403: A population density of 11.2 people per km . Far North District had a population of 71,430 in the 2023 New Zealand census , an increase of 6,180 people (9.5%) since the 2018 census , and an increase of 15,696 people (28.2%) since the 2013 census . There were 35,529 males, 35,709 females and 192 people of other genders in 26,049 dwellings. 2.1% of people identified as LGBTIQ+ . The median age
1410-559: A process of divorce in the French courts. The intervention of his son the crown prince and the King and Queen of Greece convinced him, however, to abandon his intentions. The couple reconciled and for a time they lived a second honeymoon. However, the need for money continued to be felt and Alexandra was persuaded by a British publisher to write her autobiography. With the help of the ghostwriter Joan Reeder, in 1956 she published For Love of
1504-936: A railway station in Uelzen; a winery in Napa Valley; and the Hundertwasser toilet in Kawakawa, New Zealand . In 1993 Hundertwasser was invited to design an arts centre. He completed the design but the project was not completed at that time. The project was finally approved in 2015 and became the Hundertwasser Art Centre , opening to the public in 2022. This became the last authentic Hundertwasser building to be completed. In 1999 Hundertwasser started his last project named Die Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg (in German). Although he never completed this work,
1598-525: A reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong individualism, rejecting straight lines. He remains sui generis , although his architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) in its use of biomorphic forms and the use of tile. He was also inspired by the art of the Vienna Secession , and by the Austrian painters Egon Schiele (1890–1918) and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). He
1692-601: A relative of the future British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon , the villa and its 3.6 hectares of landscaped grounds were nicknamed the Garden of Eden , which delighted the Greek Princesses. In 1935, the Second Hellenic Republic was abolished and King George II (Alexandra's uncle) was restored to the throne after a referendum organized by General Georgios Kondylis . Alexandra
1786-481: A small set of paints he carried at all times to sketch anything that caught his eye. In Florence, he met the young French painter René Brô for the first time and they became lifelong friends. Hundertwasser's first commercial painting success was in 1952–53 with an exhibition in Vienna. His adopted surname is based on the translation of "sto" (the Slavic word for "(one) hundred") into German. The name Friedensreich has
1880-437: A type of architecture in harmony with nature in his ecological commitment. He campaigned for the preservation of the natural habitat and demanded a life in accordance with the laws of nature. He wrote numerous manifestos, lectured and designed posters in favour of nature protection, including against nuclear power , to save the oceans and the whales and to protect the rain forest. He was also an advocate of composting toilets and
1974-540: A visit to her mother in Venice during the summer of 1950. The relations of the royal couple went from bad to worse. Thanks to the intervention of his maternal grandmother, the 4-year-old former Crown Prince Alexander was sent to Italy with the Count and Countess of Robilant, friends of the royal couple. The child then grew up in an atmosphere much more stable and loving, with only a few visits from his parents. The year 1952
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#17327801494832068-536: A wedding dress that was lent her by Lady Mary Lygon , wife of Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia (himself the son of King Peter's aunt Princess Helen of Serbia ). Among the guests at the ceremony, there were four reigning monarchs ( George VI of the United Kingdom , George II of Greece , Haakon VII of Norway and Wilhelmina of the Netherlands ) and several other members of European royalty, including
2162-669: A while the marital project. For two years, the lovers had only brief meetings in the residence of the Duchess of Kent. After a brief stay of Peter II in Cairo , Egypt , the couple finally married on 20 March 1944. The ceremony, at which the King's mother refused to participate, citing toothache, was held at the Yugoslav embassy in London. Marked by restrictions due to the war, Alexandra wore
2256-646: Is a melody to the feet"), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. He took no payment for the design of Hundertwasserhaus , declaring that it was worth the investment to "prevent something ugly from going up in its place". From the early 1950s he increasingly focused on architecture, advocating more just human and environmental friendly buildings. This began with manifestos, essays and demonstrations. For example, he read out his "Mouldiness Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" in 1958 on
2350-419: Is a possession of all. The rationalist way of thinking has brought us, in this century, an ephemeral higher, American standard of living at the expense of nature and creation, which is now coming to an end, for it is destroying our heart, our quality of life, our longing, without which an Austrian does not want to live. It is outrageous that Austria has an emperor who did no evil to anyone but is still treated like
2444-399: Is his commitment to constitutional monarchy : Austria needs something to look up to, consisting of perennial higher values—of which one now hardly dares to speak—such as beauty, culture, internal and external peace, faith, richness of heart [...] Austria needs an emperor, who is subservient to the people. A superior and radiant figure in whom everyone has confidence, because this great figure
2538-727: Is the northernmost territorial authority district of New Zealand , consisting of the northern part of the Northland Peninsula in the North Island . It stretches from North Cape / Otou and Cape Reinga / Te Rerenga Wairua in the north, down to the Bay of Islands , the Hokianga and the town of Kaikohe . The Far North District Council is based in Kaikohe , and has ten ward councillors representing four wards: Te Hiku (in
2632-780: The Aupōuri Peninsula past Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe / Ninety Mile Beach to the main body of the Northland Peninsula , where it encompasses the Parengarenga Harbour , Whangaroa Harbour and Bay of Islands (on the east coast) and Hokianga (on the west coast). It borders on the Kaipara and Whangarei Districts, which are the other two territorial authorities in the Northland Region. Far North District covers 6,686.61 km (2,581.71 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 74,700 as of June 2024, with
2726-505: The Bay of Islands in the far northern Te Tai Tokerau region of New Zealand, which include a total area of approximately 372 ha of the entire Kaurinui valley. There he realised his dream of living and working closely connected to nature. Beside other projects he designed the "Bottle House" there. He could live largely self-sufficiently using solar panels, a water wheel and a biological water purification plant. His first grass roof experiments took place there. In 1979 Hundertwasser bought
2820-795: The Borough of Runnymede . Abandoned by the British government, they settled for a time in France, between Paris and Monte Carlo , then in Switzerland at St. Moritz . Increasingly penniless, they ended up leaving Europe and in 1949, they settled in New York City , where the former King hoped to complete a financial project. Still penniless, the couple was forced to sell Alexandra's necklace of emeralds and other pieces of her jewelry to pay their accumulated debts. In addition to these difficulties
2914-621: The Council of Europe and the Cuban stamp, all stamps were engraved by Wolfgang Seidel and by the Austrian State Printing Office in a complex combination printing process produces (intaglio printing, rotogravure printing, as well as metal stamping). Hundertwasser also worked as a medallist. Beginning in the 1950s Hundertwasser travelled globally promoting ecological causes. In 1959 Hundertwasser got involved with helping
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3008-673: The Dalai Lama escape from Tibet by campaigning for the Tibetan religious leader in Carl Laszlo's magazine Panderma . In later years, when he was already a known artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser became an environmental activist and most recently operated as a more prominent opponent of the European Union , advocating the preservation of regional peculiarities. Among the lesser-known facets of Hundertwasser's personality
3102-592: The Duchess of Kent (born Princess Marina of Greece) and of the future Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece), who was rumoured to be briefly engaged to Alexandra. However, it was not her cousin Philip whom Alexandra finally married. In 1942, the Princess met her third cousin, King Peter II of Yugoslavia in an officers' gala at Grosvenor House . The 19-year-old sovereign had lived in exile in London since
3196-746: The United Kingdom , while her mother settled in Venice . Separated from her mother, the princess fell ill, forcing Aspasia to make her leave the boarding school where she was studying. After the restoration of her uncle, King George II , on the Hellenic throne in 1935, Alexandra stayed in her native country several times but the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War , in 1940, forced her and her mother to settle in Athens . The invasion of Greece by
3290-603: The United Kingdom . They were greeted by Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet , and his Horlick family , who harbored them in their Cowley Manor estate near the hippodrome . Now seven years old, Alexandra was enrolled in boarding schools in Westfield and Heathfield , as was the custom for the upper class. However, the Princess took very badly to this experience: separated from her mother, she stopped eating and eventually contracted tuberculosis . Alarmed, Aspasia thus moved her daughter to Switzerland for treatment. Later, Alexandra
3384-653: The Villa Bobolina near Florence , shortly after the death of her husband on 11 January 1923. The now dowager queen, who loved Alexandra, was thrilled, even if her financial situation was also precarious. With her paternal grandmother, the princess spent a happy childhood with her aunts Crown Princess Helen of Romania , Princesses Irene and Katherine of Greece , and her cousins Prince Philip of Greece (the future Duke of Edinburgh ) and Prince Michael of Romania , who were her playmates during holidays. In 1927, Alexandra and her mother moved to Ascot, Berkshire , in
3478-514: The invasion of his country by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941. Quickly, they fell in love with each other and considered marriage, which greatly delighted Princess Aspasia. However, the sharp opposition of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia , Peter II's mother, and the Yugoslav government-in-exile , which deemed it indecent to celebrate a wedding while Yugoslavia was dismembered and occupied, prevented for
3572-614: The Axis powers in April–May 1941, however, led to their moving to the United Kingdom. Again exiled, Alexandra met in London the young King Peter II of Yugoslavia , who also went into exile after the invasion of his country by the Germans . Quickly, Alexandra and Peter II fell in love and planned to marry. Opposition from both Peter's mother, Maria , and the Yugoslav government in exile forced
3666-630: The Axis powers. Crown Prince Michael of Montenegro refused to resurrect his ancient Kingdom under Italian and German protection and guidance, and thus the region of Montenegro had been transformed into a governorate by fascist Italy. Finally, the other two main parts of Yugoslavia were reduced to puppet states : the Serbia of General Milan Nedić and the Croatian Kingdom of the Ustaše . As all over occupied Europe, Yugoslav civilians suffered
3760-610: The Bay of Islands with Kaikohe centrally situated to their west. Another cluster of small settlements, Ōmāpere , Opononi , Rawene , Panguru , Kohukohu , and Horeke , surrounds the Hokianga Harbour on the west coast. Alexandra of Yugoslavia Alexandra ( Greek : Αλεξάνδρα , romanized : Alexándra , Serbo-Croatian : Александра / Aleksandra , in 1922 retroactively recognised as Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark ; 25 March 1921 – 30 January 1993)
3854-536: The European edition 1987 (Modern architecture, Hundertwasser House), on the occasion of his death in 2000 (painting Blue Blues, under the WIPA 2000) and 2004 National Donauauen (poster: The outdoors is our freedom at civil protests in Hainburg ). For the first time a Hundertwasser motive was also used on a Cuban stamp, as part of the art exhibition Salon de Mayo ( Havana , 1967). With the exception of service marks for
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3948-728: The European elite. In 1937 she was presented in Paris, where she danced with her cousin, the Duke of Windsor , then residing in France with his wife, the Duchess , after his abdication and subsequent marriage. The outbreak of the Greco-Italian War on 28 October 1940 forced Alexandra and her mother suddenly to leave Venice and fascist Italy. They settled with the rest of the Royal Family in Athens. Eager to serve their country in this difficult moment, both Princesses became nurses alongside
4042-408: The Garden of Eden. In 1963, on 1 September or before, Alexandra made another suicide attempt in Venice . Narrowly saved by her son former Crown Prince Alexander, she spent a long period of convalescence under the constant care of her sister-in-law, Princess Margarita of Baden (wife of Peter II's brother Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia ). Once recovered, Alexandra reconciled again with Peter II and
4136-581: The Mouldiness Manifesto he first claimed the "Window Right": "A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door." In his nude speeches of 1967 and 1968 Hundertwasser condemned
4230-755: The Partisans pushed the allied forces to trust the Communists and give increasingly limited help to Mihailović, who was accused of collaborating with the Axis powers to shoot communist guerrillas. After the Tehran Conference (1943), the Allies finally broke their ties with the Chetniks, forcing the Yugoslav government-in-exile to recognize the preeminence of the Partisans. In June 1944, Prime Minister Ivan Šubašić officially appointed Marshal Tito as
4324-436: The Regency Council and regain all his sovereign prerogatives in Yugoslavia (8 August). Tito responded by immediately depriving the Royal Family of the civil list , which was soon to have dramatic consequences in the lives of the royal couple. Especially, Tito ordered the organization of early elections to a Constituent Assembly. The campaign took place in an irregular way, in the middle of pressures and violence of all kinds, with
4418-491: The Rosenthal Factory in Selb, and the Mierka Grain Silo in Krems. These projects gave him the opportunity to act as what he called an "architecture doctor". In architectural projects that followed he implemented window right and tree tenants, uneven floors, woods on the roof, and spontaneous vegetation. Works of this period include: housing complexes in Germany; a church in Bärnbach, Austria; a district heating plant in Vienna; an incineration plant and sludge centre in Osaka, Japan;
4512-421: The Royal Cemetery Plot in the park of Tatoi , in Greece , before being transferred to the Royal Mausoleum of Oplenac in 2013. Five months before Alexandra's birth, her father, King Alexander , died of sepsis following a monkey bite which occurred in the gardens of Tatoi . The unexpected death of the sovereign caused a serious political crisis in Greece, at a time when public opinion was already divided by
4606-469: The Royal Family were forced to spend World War II in South Africa, Alexandra and her mother obtained the permission of King George II of Greece and the British government to move to the United Kingdom. They arrived at Liverpool in the autumn of 1941 and settled in London in the district of Mayfair . In the British capital, the Greek princesses resumed their activities in the Red Cross . Better accepted than in their own country, they were regular guests of
4700-415: The abuses of the invaders and collaborators who supported them. Two groups emerged in the country: the Chetniks , led by monarchist General Draža Mihailović , and the Partisans , led by the communist Marshal Josip Broz Tito . From London, the Yugoslav government-in-exile supported the struggle of the royalist forces and appointed General Mihailović as Chief Minister of War. However, the importance of
4794-406: The birth of the crown prince, however, were short-lived. Less than eight months after joining the coalition government, Milan Grol and Ivan Šubašić resigned their offices of Vice-Prime Minister (18 August) and Foreign Minister (8 October), respectively, to mark their political disagreement with Marshal Tito. Faced with the rise of the Communists, King Peter II decided, to withdraw his confidence from
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#17327801494834888-493: The building was built a few years later in Magdeburg , a town in eastern Germany, and opened on 3 October 2005. An art gallery featuring Hundertwasser's work was established in the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangārei , New Zealand, and will brought to fruition his 1993 plans for the building. The extensive work of Hundertwasser includes 26 stamps for various postal administrations. Seventeen of these designs were – in part after his death – implemented as postage stamps. Two of
4982-422: The census question. Of those at least 15 years old, 6,780 (11.8%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 31,995 (55.9%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 16,353 (28.6%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. The median income was $ 29,700, compared with $ 41,500 nationally. 3,126 people (5.5%) earned over $ 100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15
5076-513: The child to be born on Yugoslav soil, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reportedly asked King George VI to issue a decree transforming, for a day, Suite 212 into Yugoslav territory , which was to be the only time Alexandra was in Yugoslavia as queen. On 24 October 1945, the newborn Crown Prince was baptized by the Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo V in Westminster Abbey , with King George VI and his elder daughter (the future Queen Elizabeth II ) acting as godparents. The festivities marking
5170-464: The country; a further coup forced the new king, his wife and his brother to leave the country on 19 December 1923. On 25 March 1924, Alexandra's third birthday, the Second Hellenic Republic was proclaimed and both Aspasia and Alexandra were then the only members of the dynasty allowed to stay in Greece. Penniless, Aspasia chose to take the path of exile with her daughter in early 1924. The two princesses found refuge with Queen Sophia, who had moved to
5264-453: The couple moved to Cannes , while Peter II maintained a chancellery in Monte Carlo. Considering himself still King of Yugoslavia, the former sovereign continued to award titles and decorations. Supported by some monarchists as the "Duke of Saint-Bar", he even maintained an embassy in Madrid . However, the reconciliation of the royal couple finally soured and Peter II returned to live in the United States while Alexandra moved with her mother to
5358-446: The couple returned to live in the French capital in 1967. But, as before, the reconciliation was temporary and soon Peter II returned to live permanently in the United States while Alexandra settled in her mother's residence. Peter II died on 3 November 1970 in Denver , United States, during an attempted liver transplant . Lacking resources, his remains were buried in Saint Sava Monastery Church at Libertyville, Illinois , making him
5452-400: The couple to delay their marriage plans until 1944, when they finally celebrated their wedding. A year later, Alexandra gave birth to her only son, Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia . However, the happiness of the family was short-lived: on 29 November 1945, Marshal Tito proclaimed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Alexandra, who had never set foot in her adopted country,
5546-539: The daughter of the King's morganatic spouse. Aspasia, however, was not mentioned in the law and remained a commoner in the eyes of protocol . Humiliated by this difference in treatment, she begged Prince Christopher (whose commoner wife, Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds , was entitled to be known as a Princess of Greece and Denmark), to intercede on her behalf. Moved by the arguments of his niece-in-law, he approached Queen Sophia, who eventually changed her opinion. Under pressures from his wife, King Constantine I issued
5640-455: The enslavement of humans by the sterile grid system of conventional architecture and by the output of mechanised industrial production. He rejected rationalism, the straight line and functional architecture. For Hundertwasser, human misery was a result of the rational, sterile, monotonous architecture, built following the tradition of the Austrian architect Adolf Loos , author of the modernist manifesto Ornament and crime (1908). He called for
5734-401: The events of the World War I and the Greco-Turkish War . The King had concluded an unequal marriage with Aspasia Manos , and, in consequence, their offspring was not dynastic. Due to the lack of another candidate for the throne, Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos was soon forced to accept the restoration of his enemy, King Constantine I , on 19 December 1920. Alexander's brief reign
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#17327801494835828-418: The field of applied art, creating flags, stamps, coins, and posters. His most famous flag is his koru flag (designed in 1983), as well as several postage stamps for the Austrian Post Office. He also designed stamps for Cape Verde and for the United Nations postal administration in Geneva on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . In 1957 Hundertwasser acquired
5922-449: The head of the Yugoslav resistance and Mihailović was dismissed. In October 1944, Churchill and Stalin concluded an agreement to split Yugoslavia into two occupation zones, but after the liberation of Belgrade by the Red Army and the Partisans, it became clear the Communists predominated in the country. A harsh treatment, which affected the monarchists, took place; at the request of Churchill, Tito agreed in March 1945 to recognize
6016-400: The monarchy and proclaimed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . While no referendum accompanied this institutional change, the new regime was quickly recognized by virtually all of the international countries (except Francoist Spain ). Now without income and any prospect of returning to Yugoslavia, Peter II and Alexandra resolved to leave Claridge's Hotel and moved to a mansion in
6110-409: The newborn. Still, neither Alexandra nor Aspasia received more official recognition: from a legal point of view, they were commoners without any rights in the royal family. Things changed from July 1922 when, after the intervention of Queen Sophia , a law was passed which retroactively recognized marriages of members of the royal family, although on a non-dynastic basis; with this legal subterfuge,
6204-415: The north), Kaikohe-Hokianga (in the west), Bay of Islands-Whangaroa (in the east) and the district-wide Ngā Tai o Tokerau Māori ward. The council is led by the current mayor of Far North , Moko Tepania, who entered the role in 2022. The Far North District is the largest of three territorial authorities making up the Northland Region . The district stretches from the capes and bays at the northern tip of
6298-408: The occasion of an art and architectural event held at the Seckau Monastery. He rejected the straight line and the functional architecture. In Munich in 1967 he gave a lecture called "Speech in Nude for the Right to a Third Skin". His lecture "Loose from Loos, A Law Permitting Individual Buildings Alterations or Architecture-Boycott Manifesto", was given at the Concordia Press Club in Vienna in 1968. In
6392-606: The only European monarch so far to have been buried in America. Still unstable and impoverished, Alexandra did not attend the ceremony, which took place in relative privacy. Two years later, on 1 July 1972, former Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (now Head of the House of Karađorđević ), married at Villamanrique de la Condesa, near Seville , Spain , Princess Maria da Glória of Orléans-Braganza (b. 1946), daughter of Brazilian Imperial pretender Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza and first cousin of King Juan Carlos I of Spain . Too fragile emotionally, Alexandra did not attend
6486-399: The opposition deciding to boycott the poll. On 24 November 1945 a single list presented by the communists was proposed to voters: while there were hardly more than 10,000 Communists throughout Yugoslavia before the war, their candidates list obtained more than 90% of the votes in the referendum. In their first meeting on 29 November 1945, the Constituent Assembly voted immediately to abolish
6580-458: The other women of the Royal Family. However, after several months of victorious battles against the Italian forces, Greece was invaded by the army of Nazi Germany on 6 April 1941. Alexandra and the majority of the members of the Royal Family left the country a few days later, on 22 April. After a brief stay in Crete , where they received a German bombing, the Greek Royal Family departed for Egypt and South Africa . While several members of
6674-484: The princess obtained the style of Royal Highness and the title of Princess of Greece and Denmark . Thus, Alexandra's birth became legitimate in the eyes of Greek law, but since the marriage was recognized on a 'non-dynastic basis', her royal status was tenuous at best and she remained ineligible for the throne; however, this belated recognition made it possible for her to later make an advantageous marriage, which would not have been possible if she were nothing more than
6768-499: The principle of constructed wetland . He perceived feces not as nauseous but as part of the cycle of nature. His beliefs are testified by his manifesto The Holy Shit and his DIY guide for building a composting toilet. In the 1970s, Hundertwasser had his first architectural models built. The models for the Eurovision TV-show "Wünsch Dir was" (Make a Wish) in 1972 exemplified his ideas on forested roofs, tree tenants and
6862-617: The rest of his life. Hundertwasser stood out as an opponent of "a straight line" and any standardization, expressing this concept in the field of building design. His best known work is the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna , which has become a notable place of interest in the Austrian capital, characterised by imaginative vitality and uniqueness. The Nazi era was a very difficult time for Hundertwasser and his mother Elsa, who were Jewish . They avoided persecution by posing as Christians,
6956-468: The royal necropolis of Tatoi. During the 1936 ceremonies, a chapel was arranged in the park of the palace for the remains of King Constantine I and Queen Sophia. The remains of King Alexander − previously based in the gardens next to his grandfather King George I – were then transferred to this chapel, with no space reserved for Aspasia. In 1936, the fifteen-years-old Princess received her first marriage proposal: King Zog I of Albania , who wished to marry
7050-753: The style and name of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark . At the same time, a serious political and military crisis , linked to the defeat of Greece by Turkey in Anatolia , led to the deposition and exile of the royal family, beginning in 1924. Being the only members of the dynasty allowed to remain in the country by the Second Hellenic Republic , the princess and her mother later found refuge in Italy , with Dowager Queen Sophia. After three years with her paternal grandmother, Alexandra left Florence to continue her studies in
7144-451: The two brothers of the groom ( Prince Tomislav and Prince Andrew ), the mother of the bride, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld , Prince Consort of the Netherlands . Now Queen of Yugoslavia, Alexandra, however, had tenuous links with her new country, living under the Nazi occupation. In 1941, a large portion of the Yugoslav territory was annexed by
7238-470: The unrealized designs are alternative designs for a stamp issue (United Nations, Senegal) and were therefore not performed. Seven other designs created for the postal administrations of Morocco and French Polynesia were not realised as a postage stamp. In addition, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, has adapted some of his works for stamp issues. On the basis of these adaptations have been stamps issued by: The Austrian post office used more Hundertwasser motives for
7332-585: The vast historical garden Giardino Eden ('Garden of Eden') in Venice , including the Palazzo Villa delle Rose , from Alexandra of Yugoslavia via his Swiss company. In 1980, Hundertwasser visited Washington D.C. to support activist Ralph Nader 's efforts to oppose nuclear proliferation. Mayor Marion Barry declared 18 November to be Hundertwasser Day as a result. Hundertwasser planted trees in Judiciary Square and advocated on behalf of
7426-533: The wedding of her son and it was her father's cousin Princess Olga of Greece (wife of Prince-Regent Paul of Yugoslavia ), who escorted the groom to the altar. One month later, on 7 August 1972, Alexandra's mother Princess Aspasia died. Now alone, she finally sold the Garden of Eden in 1979 and returned to the United Kingdom because of her health problems. She died of cancer at Burgess Hill , West Sussex , on 30 January 1993. The funeral of Alexandra
7520-407: The window right. In these and similar models he developed new architectural shapes, such as the spiral house, the eye-slit house, the terrace house and the high-rise meadow house. In 1974, Peter Manhardt made models for him of the pit-house , the grass roof house and the green service station – along with his idea of the invisible, inaudible Green Motorway. In the early 1980s Hundertwasser remodelled
7614-566: Was 44.3 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 14,193 people (19.9%) aged under 15 years, 10,914 (15.3%) aged 15 to 29, 30,588 (42.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 15,735 (22.0%) aged 65 or older. People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 64.6% European ( Pākehā ); 49.9% Māori ; 5.4% Pasifika ; 3.2% Asian ; 0.6% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.0% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English
7708-465: Was determined to place him on the throne after his birth. True or not, this possibility worried the Greek royal family, whose fears about the birth of a male child were exploited by the Venizelists to revive the succession crisis. The birth of a girl, on 25 March 1921, was a great relief for the dynasty, and both King Constantine I and his mother, Queen Dowager Olga , agreed to be the godparents of
7802-493: Was educated in a Parisian finishing school , during which time she and her mother stayed at the Hotel Crillon. Eventually, the two princesses settled on the island of Giudecca in Venice , where Aspasia acquired a small property with her savings and Horlick's financial support. The former home of Caroline Carry Eden (1837–1928), sister of the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and widow of Frederic Eden (1828–1916),
7896-458: Was fascinated by spirals , and called straight lines "godless and immoral" and "something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling" He called his theory of art " transautomatism ", focusing on the experience of the viewer rather than the artist. This was encapsulated by his design of a new flag for New Zealand, which incorporated the image of the Koru a spiral shape based on the image of
7990-491: Was held in London , in the presence of her son, her three grandsons (Hereditary Prince Peter , Prince Philip and Prince Alexander ) and several members of the Greek royal family, including the former King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie . Alexandra's remains were then buried in the Royal cemetery park at Tatoi , Greece , next to her mother. On 26 May 2013, Alexandra's remains were transferred to Serbia for reburial in
8084-465: Was invited to the wedding of her uncle, Crown Prince Paul , with Princess Frederica of Hanover . Despite her participation in the ceremonies of the Greek royal family, at that time Alexandra understood that she was not a full member of the European royalty . Her mother had to claim in her name the share of the inheritance of Alexandra's paternal grandparents. Also, the princess' mother had no site in
8178-485: Was left without a crown. The abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy had very serious consequences for the royal couple. Penniless and unable to adapt to the role of citizen, Peter II turned to alcoholism and multiple affairs with other women. Depressed by the behavior of her husband, Alexandra neglected her son and made several suicide attempts . After the death of Peter II in 1970, Alexandra's health continued to deteriorate. She died of cancer in 1993. Her remains were buried in
8272-452: Was marked by further financial problems due to bad investments of Peter II. Alexandra also suffered a miscarriage. The couple returned to France, where the situation did not improve. In 1953, Alexandra made another suicide attempt in Paris , which she survived thanks to a phone call from her aunt, Queen Frederica of Greece . Tired of the poor mental health of his wife, Peter II finally launched
8366-472: Was officially treated as a regency , which meant that his marriage, contracted without his father's permission, was technically illegal, the marriage void , and the couple's posthumous child illegitimate. The last months of pregnancy of Aspasia are surrounded by intrigue. In the case that she gave birth to a boy (who would be named Philip, as the father of Alexander the Great ), rumours soon assured that she
8460-557: Was spoken by 96.8%, Māori language by 15.6%, Samoan by 0.4% and other languages by 6.0%. No language could be spoken by 1.9% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.6%. The percentage of people born overseas was 15.3, compared with 28.8% nationally. Religious affiliations were 32.4% Christian , 0.5% Hindu , 0.2% Islam , 5.9% Māori religious beliefs , 0.4% Buddhist , 0.5% New Age , 0.1% Jewish , and 1.1% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 51.4%, and 7.9% of people did not answer
8554-418: Was that 22,947 (40.1%) people were employed full-time, 7,950 (13.9%) were part-time, and 2,670 (4.7%) were unemployed. The Far North District has eight towns with a population over 1,000. Together they are home to 36.9% of the district's population. (June 2024) The northernmost town in the district is Kaitaia. Kerikeri, Moerewa, Kawakawa, Paihia, Opua and Russell are clustered on the east coast around
8648-577: Was the fact that they were unable to manage a budget. As Alexandra wrote in her autobiography, she had no idea of the value of things, and she quickly proved incapable of maintaining a home. In the United States , Peter II soon drifted away. Having made poor financial investments, he lost the little money he had left. Unable to adapt to the daily life of a normal citizen, he turned to alcohol and affairs with other women. Likely prone to anorexia for years, she made her first suicide attempt during
8742-494: Was the last Queen of Yugoslavia as the wife of King Peter II . Posthumous daughter of King Alexander of Greece and his morganatic wife, Aspasia Manos , Alexandra was not part of the Greek royal family until July 1922 when, at the behest of Queen Sophia , Alexander's mother, a law was passed which retroactively recognized marriages of members of the royal family, although on a non-dynastic basis; in consequence, she obtained
8836-618: Was then allowed to return to Greece, a country she had not seen since 1924. Although she continued to reside in Venice with her mother (who still suffered the ostracism of the royal family), the princess was invited to all the great ceremonies that punctuate the life of the dynasty. In 1936, she participated in the official ceremonies which marked the reburial in Tatoi of the remains of King Constantine I, Queen Sophia, and Dowager Queen Olga; all three died in exile in Italy. Two years later, in 1938, she
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