Immediately after his defeat in the elections in November 1920, Eleftherios Venizelos leaves Greece on the ship Narkissos of Empirikos which was chartered by Elena Skylitsis and Penelope Delta’s father, Emmanuel Benakis.
On September 15, 1921, the 57-year-old widower Eleftherios Venizelos marries the 47-year-old Elena Skylitsis, scion of an aristocratic and wealthy London family, in the music room of the London home of Sir Arthur and his Greek wife Lady Domini Crosfield, friends of Elena Skylitsis. For Elena Skylitsis, it is also the second marriage after her divorce with August Argentis.
Nine years later, on February 20, 1930, another wedding takes place in London. Between Elena Skylitsis and Philip Argentis of the well-known Genoese Argenti crusader family, son of Pantelis Leonidas Argentis and Fani Skylitsis. According to the family trees of the Skylitsis family, this particular Elena Skylitsis is said to be the niece of her namesake, wife of Eleftherios Venizelos, daughter of her brother Stefanos Stefanovits Skylitsis.
This marriage presents a certain interest, so to speak. Although both Argentis and Skylitsi were officially Orthodox Christians, they performed 2 weddings on the same day. In the morning they held an Orthodox wedding at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia in London and in the afternoon a Protestant wedding at St. Mark’s Church in London. Nevertheless, both were buried in the Greek Orthodox cemetery of West Norwood in London.
According to all this, Philip Argentis, appointed to the diplomatic corps of Greece since 1922, officially became the nephew of Eleftherios Venizelos by marriage since 1930.
They say great spirits meet. Sometimes they even marry each other according to aristocracy agenda to fulfill the political plans of those which eat from the same table.
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