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Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, romanized: Konstantínos II, pronounced [ˌkonsta(n)ˈdinos o ˈðefteros]; 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.
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.
Constantine was born in June 1940 in Athens to Prince Paul, the younger brother of Greece's King George II, and Princess Federica of Hanover. Prince Philip was his uncle.
Constantine was born on 2 August 1868 in Athens.He was the eldest son of King George I and Queen Olga.His birth was met with an immense wave of enthusiasm: the new heir apparent to the throne was the first Greek-born member of the family.
Greece’s monarchy was abolished after a referendum in 1974, and Constantine, a distant cousin of the King, spent decades in exile, living mainly in Hampstead Garden Suburb in north London before ...
In January 2023, Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, passed away at age 82. Though he fled Greece when the monarchy was abolished in 1974, he would return in his final years.
The following is a family tree for the Kings of the Hellenes of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which ruled Greece between the election of Prince Wilhelm of Denmark (George I) to replace Otto of Greece in 1863 until the declaration of the Second Hellenic Republic in 1924, and again from 1935 until the abolition of the monarchy during the reign of King Constantine II in ...
The Prince of Wales has missed a memorial service for his godfather the late King Constantine of Greece because of a personal matter. Kensington Palace would not elaborate further but said the ...