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The grandson of King George I of Greece and first cousin of Britain’s Prince Philip renounced his rights to the Greek throne to marry a commoner, artist Marina Karella, in 1965.
Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, who has died aged 85, was the last surviving grandson of King George I of Greece. He was the youngest grandchild, born in 1939 (the eldest had been born in ...
Then came George II (“the unsmiling King”), who lost the throne to a republican coup in 1924, remained in exile for eleven years before returning, and went into exile again shortly after the ...
Prince Michael of Greece, the last living grandson of King George I of Greece, who was assassinated in 1913, has passed away at the age of 85. The Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported that he died ...
Prince Michael's nephew King Constantine II, the last king of Greece who reigned until the abolition of the Greek monarchy in June 1973, recently died in Jan. 2023 at age 82.