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Helena Stefanovich Schilizzi (Greek: Έλενα Σκυλίτση-Στεφάνοβικ, Elena Skylitsi-Stefanovik; 18 September 1873 — 7 September 1959), was a wealthy Greek-British philanthropist, and second wife of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos.
This chapter describes Helena Schilizzi, a London-based member of the widespread and prosperous Schilizzi family, who met Venizelos during the peace negotiations of late 1912-1913 and became devoted to him. It is based in part on her memoir A l'Ombre de Veniselos.
In September 1921, twenty-seven years after the death of his first wife Maria, he married Helena Schilizzi (sometimes referred to as Elena Skylitsi or Stephanovich) in London.
Helena Schilizzi came from a wealthy eastern Mediterranean family but was born and spent much of her life in London where she married Venizelos in 1921. She bought the land for their new house in Athens, on the corner of Vasilissis Sophias Avenue and Loukiana Street, from the National Bank of Greece in 1928 and commissioned Anastasios Metaxas ...
Long after his death, Helena Schilizzi – Helena Venizelos as she became – wrote a memoir in which she tells the sympathetic reader how little she knew about the world at that time – as a young millionairess, scarcely 37 years old – and how uncomfortable she was in high society.
1 de jun. de 2021 · This brought us close to him and his second wife Helena Schilizzi. We managed with the help of Dori Skoura of the British Embassy to get portraits in oils of Venizelos and Helena, and hang them downstairs in the so-called Venizelos Library.
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