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Lady Gabriella Kingston undertakes important duty as she represents British royals at the funeral of Constantine II

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16th January 2023
Lady Gabriella Kingston, the daughter of Prince & Princess Michael of Kent, was chosen by The Royal Family to represent them at the funeral of Constantine II of Greece. Lady Gabriella, who is 55th-in-line to the throne, arrived in Athens for the funeral. She was goddaughter to King Constantine, the former King of Greece, who died last week at the age of 82. The 41-year-old was…
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Sweden

Sweden’s Crown Prince who lost not only the throne, but his £4 million inheritance

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15th January 2023
Following on from a recent SVT documentary, the order of succession to the Swedish throne became a hot topic of discussion. When Prince Carl Philip was born as the younger brother of Princess Victoria, he was destined to become King. However, a constitutional amendment half a year later reversed this, so the King’s eldest child, Crown Princess Victoria, became first in the line of…
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Greece

Royals expected at King Constantine's funeral

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15th January 2023
King Constantine of Greece will be laid to rest on Monday, 16 January, in a private funeral service; however, that does not mean that royals from across Europe won’t be in attendance at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Athens. Belgium: King Philippe and Queen…
Greece

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens - the setting for the final part of a King's story

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14th January 2023
On Tuesday, 10 January, King Constantine II died in Athens, Greece, at Hygeia Hospital at the age of 82 from stroke complications. His private funeral will be held in Athens on Monday, 16 January, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.  The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation is informally known as the Mētrópolis and is below the Acropolis in Athens. It is a Greek Orthodox…
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Greece

The royals buried at Tatoi

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12th January 2023
King Constantine II of Greece, the former King of the Hellenes, died in Athens on Tuesday, 10 January. He will be buried at Tatoi Royal Cemetery at the Greek Royal Family’s former summer home in Greece. Tatoi Palace was the summer estate of the Greek royals…
Greece

The Greek Royal Family's special relationship with the other royal houses of Europe

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12th January 2023
Greece may no longer have a ruling monarchy, but its former royal house has close connections to several royal families in Europe through the late King Constantine and his wife, Queen Anne-Marie. Denmark: Queen Anne-Marie was born Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark as the youngest child of King Frederick IX and Queen Ingrid. Her older sister, Margrethe, is the current Queen of Denmark. Thus, the…
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