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On 10 January 2023, Constantine II of Greece, Head of the Royal House of Greece, who reigned as the last King of the Hellenes from 6 March 1964 to 1 June 1973, died in Athens at the age of 82, having already been placed under intensive care after suffering a stroke in hospital.
Jan 16, 2023 · Greece's final king, Constantine II, has been laid to rest in a private funeral after he died at the age of 82.
Jan 11, 2023 · Greece's last king, Constantine II, has died in hospital in Athens aged 82. He had been suffering from heart and mobility problems.
On 6 March 1964, Paul died and the 23-year-old Constantine succeeded him as King of the Hellenes. [59] [60] [61] The new king ascended the throne as Constantine II, although some of his supporters preferred to call him Constantine XIII to emphasize the continuity between the former Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Greece. [62]
Jan 13, 2023 · Jan. 13, 2023. ATHENS — Constantine II, the last king of Greece, who ruled for just three years during a turbulent period in the country’s modern history that culminated in the abolition of the...
- Niki Kitsantonis
Jan 10, 2023 · Doctors at the private Hygeia Hospital in Athens confirmed to The Associated Press that Constantine died late Tuesday after treatment in an intensive care unit but had no further details...
Constantine II was the king of Greece from 1964 to 1974. After spending World War II in exile in South Africa, Constantine returned to Greece in 1946. When his father became King Paul I in 1947, Constantine became crown prince; he succeeded to the throne upon his father’s death on March 6, 1964.
