(Greek: Ειρήνη; born 11 May 1942) is the youngest child and second daughter of King Paul of the Hellenes and his wife, Queen Frederica.

Irene was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where her parents were living in exile, on 11 May 1942.

[1] Irene was courted by Prince Michel of Orléans, Count of Évreux, a younger son of the Orléanist pretender Henri, Count of Paris, until he met French noblewoman Béatrice Marie Pasquier de Franclieu,[2] whom he married in 1967.

Since her mother's death in 1981, she has lived in Spain in an apartment at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, the residence of her sister and brother-in-law, Queen Sofía and King Juan Carlos.

[4] Irene was the founder and president of the organisation World in Harmony (Mundo en Armonía) from 1986 to 2023.