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Although revered by many Greeks as a living symbol of national unity, Constantine has no blood relations in the country. The royal family is descended from a Danish prince of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonder-burg-Glücksburg, who was installed by Russia, France and Britain on the throne in 1863, as King George I. Since Constantine's exile, there has been occasional speculation that he might eventually give up his Roman villa and join his wife's family in Denmark. But, says a friend, "if he moved into a palace in Copenhagen, it would look...
Died. Gerhard Küntscher, 72, German surgeon who in 1939 developed a novel means of setting bone fractures; of a heart attack; in Glücksburg, West Germany. Küntscher's innovation was to drill a hole lengthwise into each section of a broken bone, then insert a metal pin to join the break. The stability of the pin led to quicker recovery, and after winning adherents during World War II, the technique has been widely adopted by orthopedic surgeons, particularly for athletes, who break bones often and whose speedy recovery may be vital to a team...
...Glücksburg dynasty, to which Constantine belongs, was started in 1863. During a period of near-anarchy in Athens, a Greek delegation went to Denmark to beg King Christian IX to allow his son, Prince William George, to become their king. George I lasted on the throne for 50 years?until an assassin's bullet ended his reign. His son, Constantine I, had equally bad luck, was twice deposed by the politicians. 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...
Bearded Return. Descended from Denmark's royal House of Glücksburg, which took over the Greek throne in 1863, Paul did not have a drop of Hellenic blood in his veins. Throughout his youth, Greece's chaotic politics periodically sent the young prince into exile. Between 1923 and 1935, he slipped back into republican Greece just once, disguised by a thick black beard and posing as a deck hand on a friend's yacht...
...another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This they did, and on Nov. 27, 1905 Carl of Denmark ascended...