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Article: The Greek monarchy in retrospect.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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AN expert on royal security wrote in 1910: 'A royal crown may sometimes seem heavy, even under the radiant skies of Greece'. The convoluted and sometimes violent history of the modern Greek monarchy has been further explored in a new book, just published by John van der Kiste, King of the Hellenes. What seems to emerge from this and other studies, and indeed from the present dilemma of the former King over his nationality and possessions, are certain common threads. These run through the history of the restored Greek state from its re-emergence in 1827. It was only of course in name, in geography and in folk memory, that the Greece of 1827 bore any resemblance to the ancient ...
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