Constantine II, 1940–2023,
king of the Hellenes; also known as Constantine XIII. He was appointed
regent in 1964 and succeeded to the throne the same year on the death of his
father, King Paul. In 1967, after
a military junta had seized political power in Greece, Constantine made an
abortive attempt to overthrow the generals. When the coup failed, he and his
family fled into exile. The junta declared him formally deposed in June,
1973, and established a republic. In Dec., 1974, after the overthrow of the
junta, the Greek voters chose not to restore the monarchy. Constantine was
stripped of his Greek citizenship in 1994. In 2002 the European Court of
Human Rights ruled that Greece had to compensate the former king for
property nationalized after the royal family fled the country.
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