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- 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.
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Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, romanized: Konstantínos II, pronounced [ˌkonstaˈdinos ðefˈteros]; 2 June 1940 – 10 January 2023) [1] was the last king of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
6 days ago · 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.
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Jan 12, 2023 · Constantine was baptized on July 18 in the ceremonial hall of the so-called New Royal Palace on Irodou Attikou Street (which today houses the Presidential Mansion, the official residence of the Greek president). During the first years of his life he did not live in Greece.
- He Was Born Into A Powerful Family
- He Was An Infant Runaway
- He Was Forced Into Exile
- His Father Abandoned Him
- He Caused A Civil War
- He Became Crown Prince at Six
- He Was A Greek God
- His Cousin Caught His Eye
- He Obsessed Over Her
- His Crush Became A Bridesmaid
On June 2, 1940, Constantine came into the world as the only son of Crown Prince Paul and Princess Frederica of Greece. This immediately put him near the front of the line for the Greek throne, just after his father and the current ruler, his uncle King George III. Now, you might think this was a cushy existence, but Constantine's trouble started a...
Constantine's childhood should have beee carefree...but that didn't happen. He was born right in the middle of WWII, and the Axis powers were ramping up to try to oust his family from their royal seat. It quickly turned into a nightmare: When Constantine was just 10 months old, his family was forced to flee to Crete for their survival. It would onl...
The young Constantine may have not known it, but he spent one of the most dangerous weeks in his entire life when he was only an infant. While the family must have thought they were safe on the island, they soon found out how wrong they were.With enemies advancing, they had to flee again, this time to Egypt—just days before the Germans ran roughsho...
For the next months and years of his formative stages, Constantine lived in a state of flux as the royal family went whichever way the wind blew best. Constantine and the women in his family ended up in South Africa, but his father Prince Paul took off for the even safer haven of England. The young boy wouldn't see his daddy for three long years. T...
By 1946, WWII had wound down and Constantine and his family returned to Greece at long last. But this homecoming was a nightmare in disguise. The Greek people weren't even sure they wanteda king anymore. So, as Constantine and his family looked on, a brutal Civil War between the pro and anti-monarchists erupted all around them—with people looting t...
On April 1 1947, in the middle of this raging conflict, Constantine’s uncle King George II collapsed in the Royal Palace and never recovered. What seemed like a bad April Fool’s joke turned out to be a tragedy for the royal family...but it was also the beginning of a new era. Constantine was now the Crown Prince of Greece, and his father was king, ...
From his precarious childhood, Constantine soon grew into the picture of Greek manhood, a kind of royal Adonis. In particular, he was a master sailor, and went on to represent Greece in the Summer Olympics of 1960. Incredibly he brought the gold medal in sailing home to Greece for the first time since 1912. The crown prince was now also a national ...
Right around the time the strapping Constantine was wowing on the world stage, he went on a state visit with his parents to Denmark. While there, he met a scandalous love interest.Princess Anne-Marie was the youngest daughter of the Danish King and Queen, and besides being Constantine's third cousin, she was just 13 years old while he was 19. But a...
Even though a whole year went by, Constantine couldn’t stop thinking about his cousin. When he saw Anne-Marie again on another visit to Denmark in 1961, he could no longer inhibit himself. The 20-year-old crown prince reportedly told his parents that he was going to marry Anne-Marie as soon as he could. But before that could happen, a different wed...
In May of 1962, Constantine's sister Sofia married Prince Juan Carlos of Spain in a lavish ceremony that lacked for nothing. But Constantine got something out of it too. That's because Anne-Marie was one of the bridesmaids in the ceremony, giving him plenty of opportunity to get alone time with his crush. It must have worked a charm, because Consta...
Jan 13, 2023 · He lived in Rome and London, not returning to Greece until the early 2000s, and frequently looked back on the 1960s.
Jan 10, 2024 · Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, an Olympic gold medalist before becoming entangled in Greece’s volatile politics in the 1960’s as king and spent decades in exile. Life in exile For most of his years in exile, he lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, and was especially close to his second cousin Charles, the Prince of ...
Jan 10, 2023 · King Constantine II has died at the age of 82. Born on 2 June 1940 in Athens, Constantine was the only son of King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece.
