Katerina "Rosa" Botsari (1820–1872) was a member of the Souliot

Souliotes

Souliotes were a warlike community from the area of Souli, in Greece, who became famous across Greece for their resistance against the local Ottoman Pashalik of Yanina ruled by the Muslim Albanian Ali Pasha...

 Botsaris family. The daughter of Markos Botsaris

Markos Botsaris

Markos Botsaris was a Souliote captain and a hero of the War of Greek Independence. Markos Botsaris is among the most revered national heroes in Greece.-Early life:...

, she was in the service of Queen Amalia of Greece

Amalia of Oldenburg

Amalia of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece was the consort of King Otto of Greece . Born the daughter of Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg and Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, she married King Otto on 22 December 1836, in Oldenburg...

 as well as an admired young woman throughout the European courts - she was immortalised for the 'Gallery of Beauties

Gallery of Beauties

The Gallery of Beauties is a collection of 36 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich, Germany, painted between 1827 and 1850 and gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace in Munich...

' of Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ludwig I was a German king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states.-Crown prince:...

 in an 1841 painting by Joseph Stieler (a painting often mistaken for Amalia herself and wearing a dress now known as the "Amalia dress"). A Damask rose

Rosa damascena

Rosa × damascena, more commonly known as the Damask rose , the Damascus rose, or sometimes as the Rose of Castile, is a rose hybrid, derived from Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata...

 species bred in 1856 was named Rosa Botsaris after her. In 1845 she married Prince George Karatzas

Caradja

Caradja, Karadja or Caragea is an aristocratic family of Byzantine and Phanariote Greek origins, present as dignitaries in the Ottoman Empire, and established as hospodars and boyars in the Danubian Principalities from the late 16th century...

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