As a result, he reluctantly agreed to inaugurate the In 1964, King Paul died of cancer, and the 23-year-old Constantine succeeded him as king. Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, Konstantínos II, pronounced [ˌkonstanˈdinos]; born 2 June 1940) reigned as the King of Greece, from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973. There, Venizelos established a During November/December 1916, the British and French landed units at Athens claiming the surrender of war materiel equivalent to what was lost at Fort Rupel as a guarantee of Greece's neutrality. He rejected the early appeal from Kaiser Wilhelm that Greece should march on the side of Germany and stated that Greece would remain neutral. Constantine II is also Co-President of Honour of the As of 2013, Constantine II has returned to reside in Greece.Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parametersThis article does not contain any citations or references.

They landed in Rome early in the morning of 14 December, where they remained in exile all through the rest of military rule (although he continued as king until 1 June 1973.)

He was never to return to Greece as a reigning king. International recognition, which he believed to be forthcoming, as well as internal pressure from the fact that Greece would have been split in two governments would, the king hoped, force the junta to resign, leaving the field clear for him to return triumphant to Athens.

Realising that the countercoup had failed, Constantine fled Greece on board the royal plane, taking his family and hapless premier with him. His teenage bride was Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark. The conservative establishment feared the rising influence of Papandreou's left-leaning son The name of Andreas Papandreou was implicated in the case, and when the defense minister, Constantine proposed the appointment of any other person of the prime minister's choosing as defence minister because, as the king argued, there was a conflict of interest: the prime minister's son was allegedly involved in the scandal. King Constantine returned to Greece again, on a private two-week visit in 1993, with his family. Greece's last king caught the eye of a 13-year-old princess, won Olympic gold and was exiled - such is the mind-boggling story of Constantine II News/Politics 2020-05-31T00:12:18.673Z King Juan Carlos neither likes to be emeritus nor retirement

But Constantine insisted on the full restoration of democracy under the existing constitution as a precondition, and George Papadopoulos would not agree to this. A law passed in 1994 stripped him of his He is also frequently referred to as Mr. Glücksburg; this reference to his family dates back to at least 1935 when Today, this appellation is more widespread and also draws attention to the fact that Constantine's family lacks a legal surname in Greece.In 2004, Constantine was back in Greece temporarily during the Athens Olympic Games as a member of the International Olympic Committee.During his first visit to Greece using this passport, Constantine was mocked by some of the Greek media, which Constantine and Prince Charles are second cousins because their grandfathers (King Constantine I of Greece and On 24 December 2004, Constantine and Anne-Marie and members of the former royal family visited the In 2008 and 2012, during the Olympic Games in Beijing and London, Constantine II, in his role as honorary member of the International Olympic Committee, was the official presenter at the sailing medal ceremonies.

Although injured in the escape, the king and his family managed to flee to safety. Sophie, Constantine's queen, was popularly thought to support her brother Kaiser Wilhelm, but it seems that she was actually pro-BritishBoth Venizelos and Constantine were keenly aware that a maritime country like Greece could not, and should not, antagonise the Entente, the dominant naval powers in the In January 1915, the Entente made proposals to both Bulgaria and Greece to side with it. Constantine, speaking from London, freely admitted his past mistakes. But in 1967, three years after their wedding, after a coup and a failed countercoup, the young couple and their two small children were driven out of Greece, making … In 1992 he concluded an agreement with the conservative government of Prime Minister Constantine sued Greece at the European Court of Human Rights for €500 million in compensation for the seized property. Once upon a time, in a kingdom by the sea, a handsome 24-year-old king married a beautiful 18-year-old princess, and the people of the kingdom rejoiced, and the king and queen lived in a golden palace in the capital, surrounded by royal gardens. Advancing on foot, the Greeks soundly defeated the Turks twice, and were in Thessaloniki within 4 weeks. …Eleuthérios Venizélos, who, because King Constantine still favoured the Central Powers, had fled Athens in September 1916 and set up a provisional government under Allied protection at Salonika.