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Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, Prince of Denmark RE (Greek: Παύλος, romanized: Pávlos; born 20 May 1967), is the current head of the former Greek royal family. He is the second child and eldest son of the last king of Greece, Constantine II, and Queen Anne-Marie.
Oct 5, 2023 · The Prince grew up at the Tatoi Palace in Athens. Pavlos was born into a turbulent era in Greek politics. Greece was at this time characterized by military coups and instability.
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Pavlos was born on 20 May 1967 at the Tatoi Palace north of Athens, used at the time as the secondary residence of the former Greek royal family. He was the second child and first son of King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. Constantine II had ascended the throne on 6 March 1964, aged 23, following the death of his father and predeces...
Pavlos was born into a turbulent era in Greek politics. Pavlos was born barely a month after a coup d'état which ended democratic rule in Greece over the king's objections on 21 April 1967, ushering in a military junta, led by Georgios Papadopoulos. In December of that year, Constantine attempted a counter-coup that failed due to planning mistakes,...
Following the death of his father on 10 January 2023, Pavlos ascended to the position of Head of the former Royal House of Greece. He delivered Constantine's eulogy during the funeral ceremony and carried his coffin with his brothers, sons and nephews at the burial. A rumour circulated that Pavlos intended to permanently relocate to Greece, but thi...
Pavlos married American heiress Marie-Chantal Miller, whom he had met at a party three years earlier in New Orleans, on 1 July 1995. The Greek Orthodox rite wedding at St Sophia's Cathedral, London drew a rare modern panoply of royalty, but the ceremony proved to be legally invalid and had eventually to be repeated civilly (not normally required in...
From birth, Pavlos was the heir apparent to the throne of Greece and as such he was referred to as the Crown Prince of Greece with the style of Royal Highness. Following the deposition of the Greek monarchy in 1973, these titles and styles are no longer legally recognised by the government of the Hellenic Republic. Through his male-line descent fro...
Paul of Greece. Paul (Greek: Παύλος, romanized: Pav́los; 14 December 1901 – 6 March 1964) was King of Greece, from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964. Paul was born in Athens as the third son of Crown Prince Constantine and Crown Princess Sophia of Greece. In 1912, the year before his father ascended the throne, Paul joined ...
Jun 29, 2019 · The Christening of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, the second child and eldest son of King Constantine II of Greece (wearing the Order of the Redeemer and the Order of Saints George and Constantine) and Princess Anne Marie of Denmark (in the Greek Emerald Brooch and Order of the Redeemer), at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens on this day in ...
HRH Crown Prince Pavlos was born in Athens in 1967. At seven months old, his family moved to Rome following the 1967 Greek military coup d’état, before settling in London in 1974. He was educated at the Hellenic College of London, a school founded by his parents, King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie. For the final two years of his secondary ...
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, Prince of Denmark, RE (Greek: Παύλος; born 20 May 1967) is the second child and eldest son of Constantine II, the last King of Greece from 1964 to 1973, and Anne-Marie of Denmark.
