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====Love and marriage====
[[File:Peter II and Alexandra of Yugoslavia 1963.jpg|thumb|Peter II and Alexandra]]
On 20 March 1944 at the Yugoslav Legation of London<ref name=NYT/> she married her third cousin, the young King of Yugoslavia, [[Peter II of Yugoslavia|Peter II]], whom she had met in 1942. (Both were great-great-grandchildren of [[Queen Victoria]], she through her paternal grandmother [[Princess Sophia of Prussia|Sophia, Queen of the Hellenes]], and he through his maternal grandmother, [[Princess Marie of Edinburgh|Queen Marie of Romania]]). Guests at the wedding included members of the British royal family, including [[George VI|King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]]; [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester|Henry, Duke of Gloucester]]; [[Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark|Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent]]; as well as other European royalty in exile, such as [[King Haakon VII of Norway]] and [[Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Wedding of HRH Princess Alexandra of Greece & Denmark to King Peter II of Yugoslavia. 20th March 1944, London|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/87058794@N03/8083510474/in/photostream/|publisher=Flickr.com}}</ref>
On 17 July 1945 she gave birth to [[Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia|the Crown Prince]] in Suite 212 of [[Claridge's Hotel]] in Brook Street. The British Government ceded sovereignty over the suite to Yugoslavia just for one day, so that the prince would be born in Yugoslav territory, which was to be the only time Queen Alexandra was in Yugoslavia.<ref name=Independent/>
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