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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. Advised by police to be wary of assassination attempts, they held the religious ceremony in private at Witanhurst , the mansion of a family friend and ...
The Schilizzi Scholarships. King's College London. What is the Schilizzi Scholarship? Helena Schilizzi, the wife of Elefthérios Venizélos, one of the most significant dignitaries in modern Greek history, played a major role in the development of Modern Greek & Byzantine Studies at King's College London.
Shortly afterwards, Waterlow was approached by Lady Crosfield, a close friend of Venizelos’s second wife, Helena Schilizzi, who said that Schilizzi wished to sell her Athens house at an attractive price to the British government for the use of the legation.
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.
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 ...
