Word: throneless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...product of German governesses, Potsdam Military Academy and the British Court, he sincerely tries to do the "right thing," once remarked sadly: "There are no gentlemen in Greece with whom I could make friends." During his years in exile he apparently felt quite at home in the limbo of throneless royalty, where frayed memories of grandeur are brushed and brushed again like aging cutaways. He dresses well-perhaps a little too well: he was once mistaken for a headwaiter in a London restaurant. He has shot tigers in Nepal, tried his hand at writing movie scenarios, was once offered...