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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.
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 ...
Biography. Helena Schilizzi was born on 18 September 1873 in Bayswater, London, England, daughter of John Stefanovich Schilizzi (1840–1908) and Virginia Pandia Sechiari (1849–1929). [1] Helena had a brother, Stephen Stephanovich Schilizzi (15 April 1872 – 18 July 1961).
- September 18, 1873
- September 7, 1959
Helena Schilizzi (1873-1959), who belonged to a prominent Anglo-Greek family, married the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos in London in 1921. The history of the Greek community in London during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, therefore, presents a picture of steady progress from an obscure minority to a position of considerable ...
It had its own diplomacy (its base in the United Kingdom was Helena Schilizzi’s London house at 51 Upper Brook Street)5 and its own propaganda service. Entente forces and the British embassy’s intelligence service steadily favoured Salonica, undermined King Constantine, destabilized Athens and blockaded southern Greece, causing famine ...
Helen Argenti (née Alexandra Helen Schilizzi; 28 April 1904 – 23 March 1988) was a British lecturer and Liberal Party politician. She was made a Grand Officer of the Holy Sepulchre , an Officer Order of Evpomas, and awarded the Greek Commemorative Naval Medal.
