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Young King Constantine faced a dilemma. He had not been privy to the plot and had at first vigorously opposed the takeover. But he was caught between an overzealous military, which claimed that it was acting in his name, and demagogic leftist politicians who threatened his throne. Asked about the junta's relations with the King, Interior Minister Pattakos said: "We love him. We are with him, and he is with us." After a few days of delay, the King followed his subjects' example and went along with the new government in hopes of directing...
When the Prince assumes the throne, he will be known to his people -- as his father is now known -- as The Living Incarnation...
...when the country faced economic ruin and a bloody civil war between the Greek government and Communist guerrillas supplied from neighboring Red-ruled countries. Greeks voted 2 to 1 in a plebiscite to call back George II from his wartime exile in London and to restore his throne. Though George died in 1947, his brother Paul, who succeeded him, traveled the breadth of the peninsula with his German-born wife Frederika, rallying support for the government. They went to the battlefront in Jeeps, crossed mountains on muleback and even took meals with the peasants in the countryside. The U.S. poured...
When Paul died in 1964 and Constantine graduated to the throne, many feared that the young King, who has said about his family that "we always used to work as a team," would be under the sway of the Queen Mother. But young Constantine soon showed that he had considerable toughness. He decided that his job was not for a puppet or a figurehead, and that he would have to reign as his family had before him?within the constitutional rights of the monarchy but with the strength and determination of a modern king. In fact, the Greek King...
When the King asked for "an administrative investigation" of the Aspida plot, the elder Papandreou tried to fire the Defense Minister, who was to conduct the inquiry, and attempted to take over the job himself. In his first big political test a mere 16 months after ascending the throne, King Constantine held firm. He told Papandreou that he would allow any member of the Center Union Party to conduct the investigation but, since it primarily involved Papandreou's son, he would not allow Papandreou to be the final judge of what action to take. Papandreou accused the King of unconstitutional...