Greece’s former King Constantine II, whose nine-year reign coincided with one of the most turbulent periods in the country’s political history, dead at 82
Greece’s former King Constantine II, whose nine-year reign coincided with one of the most turbulent periods in the country’s political history, died on Tuesday aged 82, state website ERT news reported.
A few months later, he was forced to flee the country after leading an unsuccessful countercoup against the then military junta.In a referendum called by a national unity government led by Konstantinos Karamanlis after the fall of the junta in 1974, Greeks rejected monarchy for a second time, making Constantine the last king of Greece. Athens later stripped him of his citizenship.
With his wife Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, the former king, a sailor whose team won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics, had five children. Constantine, Prince William’s godfather, and his family had lived in London for years, before returning to Greece.
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