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Elena of Montenegro

1871 - 1952

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Elena of Montenegro (Serbian: Јелена Петровић Његош / Jelena Petrović Njegoš; 8 January 1873 – 28 November 1952) was Queen of Italy from 29 July 1900 until 9 May 1946 as the wife of King Victor Emmanuel III. As Victor Emmanuel's wife, she briefly claimed the titles Empress of Ethiopia and Queen of the Albanians; both titles were dropped when her husband formally renounced them in 1943. Elena was the daughter of King Nicholas I and Queen Milena of Montenegro. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elena of Montenegro has received more than 669,056 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Elena of Montenegro is the 110th most popular companion (up from 118th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Montenegro and the most popular Montenegrin Companion.

Elena of Montenegro was a Queen consort of Serbia, the wife of King Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš. She was born as Princess Elena Petrović-Njegoš in Montenegro on December 12, 1873. She was Queen consort of Serbia from 1889 to 1903, when her husband was assassinated. She and her husband were crowned King and Queen of Montenegro in 1910.

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Among companions, Elena of Montenegro ranks 110 out of 784Before her are Pulcheria, Adelaide of Italy, Halime Hatun, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Margaret Tudor, and Bianca Maria Sforza. After her are Inês de Castro, Maria Amalia of Saxony, Louise of Sweden, Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, Maria Anna of Neuburg, and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Elena of Montenegro ranks 16Before her are Baroness Mary Vetsera, Grazia Deledda, Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, Victor Grignard, and Lesya Ukrainka. After her are Ioannis Metaxas, Theodore Dreiser, Georges Rouault, František Kupka, Giacomo Balla, and Alexander von Zemlinsky. Among people deceased in 1952, Elena of Montenegro ranks 13Before her are Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Sveinn Björnsson, and Benedetto Croce. After her are Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Sven Hedin, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Walter Schellenberg, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, and Kiichiro Toyoda.

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In Montenegro

Among people born in Montenegro, Elena of Montenegro ranks 5 out of 142Before her are Radovan Karadžić (1945), Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888), Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1182), and Stefan Nemanja (1113). After her are Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841), Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813), Milovan Đilas (1911), Princess Zorka of Montenegro (1864), Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha (1459), Milena Vukotić (1848), and Princess Milica of Montenegro (1866).

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