One of the myths recently circulating on the internet, a fake story, is that Greece’s deposed monarch, Constantine II, who was buried on Monday at Tatoi, “never opposed democracy.” This is false.
FORMER KING CONSTANTINE
Are we prepared to face our history without fear or passion? Can we accept that we have avenues named after royalty and that the former summer palace at Tatoi needs to be salvaged because it is a piece of our collective memory? Can we finally be ruthless about the historical truth, while also respecting its […]
The body of former king of Greece, Constantine II, was buried alongside his ancestors at the former royal estate of Tatoi, north of Athens, shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon.
European royalty gathered in Athens on Monday for the funeral of former King Constantine of Greece, born a prince but spurned by his country which abolished the monarchy in 1974.
The first time I ever spoke with former king Constantine was shortly after the publication of my book “The Rape of Greek Democracy: The American Factor” in 1997.
The funeral procession of former King of Greece Constantine II will be held at the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens followed by a private burial at the cemetery of the former royal estate of Tatoi, north of the Greek capital Monday. His body will lie at rest in Saint Eleftherios chapel next to the Cathedral ahead of the funeral service.
A reported 1,000 police will be deployed for the funeral service and burial of former King Constantine Monday, according to Greek media.
Would the referendum for abolishing the monarchy had been held if Constantine had returned to Greece before Konstantinos Karamanlis after the fall of the junta? And if it had, would the king have lost for certain? No one knows.
With the death of the last king of the Hellenes almost 50 years after the institution was scrapped by referendum, there are no excuses for the frivolity with which many participants in public life – on the left and the right – approach the question of the monarchy and its history, seeking political gains without effort.
Deputy Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikrammenos will also represent the government at the funeral of Greece’s former King Constantine II, it was announced Friday.
Constantine spent much of his life away from the throne or stripped of it, starting in 1967 as an exile and then in 1973 as a former king, after the monarchy was formally abolished.
The funeral service for Greece’s former King Constantine will be held at 12 noon Monday at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens while his body will lie in the adjacent chapel of Agios Eleftherios from 6. a.m. to 10 a.m and will be open to members of the public to pay their respects.
Constantine attended the elite Anavryta Classical Lyceum, Greece’s first Western-style, boys-only boarding school, which was founded in 1940 and re-established for the 1949-50 academic year with the express purpose of ensuring that the heir to the Greek throne received a “proper” education. The crown prince’s athletic prowess and zeal for seizing the initiative – a […]
The last king of Greece, Constantine II, died late Tuesday night, 100 years after the death of his grandfather, Constantine I, who died on January 11, 1923.
The funeral service of Constantine, the former king of Greece, will take place on Monday at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral, according to a release on Wednesday.
The funeral service of Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, will take place on Monday at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral according to a release on Wednesday. The former king will later be buried as a private citizen in Tatoi.
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