Julie Marie (Constantine) Pringo

Notes:

Glyn Gowans calls her 'Lilia' and a lifelong friend from childhood of Princess Marina of Kent and that they holidayed together. After the war, he says, she worked for a Paris fashion house and was known as Figgy because she said 'figure-toi' so often.

Glyn Gowans says Lilia voluntarily accompanied Prince Paul and Princess Olga to house arrest in Kenya in 1941 after the allegedly SOE-inspired Belgrade coup but was again in Alexandria by 1942 where she again met up with Cecil Beaton (a war photographer).

A close friend of Cecil Beaton and of the three daughters of Prince & Princess Nicolas (notably Olga). See Neil Balfour\'s biography of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Hugo Vicker\'s biography of Cecil Beaton and Sophia Watson\'s biography of Princess Marina.

Julie married Jean (Pandia) Ralli on 21 Jun 1921 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Jean (son of Pandia (Zannis) Ralli and Julia (Michel) Salvago) was born on 20 Jun 1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is mentioned in his mother's death notice, Le Figaro, 13 Aug 1920, p 2, "in Ouchy [Switzerland] the mother of Constantin Pringo, Mme H. Pringo, Mme A. Ralli, Mme T. Corvissiano".

"DIARY OF THE FIRST TRIP TO GREECE OF CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY, 5 July 1901, Athens: "I returned at about 1 p.m. to Phalerum. In the dining-room I found the Pringos at lunch. They were very friendly. The lot was Constantine Pringo and his wife, his mother, his unmarried sister and Mme Ivanoff. The three last had just arrived from Alexandria."

Constantine married Hélène Bassia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]