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these frenzied scenes could be the
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victory rally of a politician or perhaps
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a grand birthday party for a Hollywood
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film star
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actually the man at the center of all
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this attention is King Constantine of
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Greece but Bruce has been a republic for
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nearly 30 years these scenes of rampant
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royalism and fervor are not in Athens
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but in London where the King lives in
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exile Constantine is the king who lost
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his throne
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a royal wedding reception Crown Prince
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Pavlos the eldest son of King
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Constantine of Greece is marrying
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marie-chantal Miller daughter of one of
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the world's richest men
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it's our royal watchers paradise but
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guests at this royal wedding are a hoons
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who have a great good to prepare the
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whole thing was quite difficult and but
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it was a very enjoyable day I must say
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and I enjoyed every moment of it was
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great from whole family was there the
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whole family is the cream of European
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royalty many are known as the relatives
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as you know the Queen is the godmother
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of our daughter and Prince charges to
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Godfather my son and I've recalled his
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son and so it's all very closed society
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photographer Lord Litchfield pushes
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protocol aside for practicality as
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monarchs and heads of state are handed
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into place straight to come
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that's how
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after the wedding royal guests will head
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back to the comfort of palaces all over
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Europe but King Constantine will not be
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travelling home to Greece or even going
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home to a palace
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with his wife Queen Anne Marie the
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king's home for the past 30 years has
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been here in a North London suburb this
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is a famous drawing of my grandfather
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where who was commanded chief of the
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Greek armed forces in the Balkan wars of
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1912-1913
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he's just receiving a telegram and the
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victory against Constantine is a man
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whose ancestors fought battles and
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liberated cities in his house it's hard
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to forget the past
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royal relics tell potent tales of Greek
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history and hold painful memories of
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housing's might have been that's my gun
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for the King Constantine
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and you can barely see that it's a last
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look painting you can barely see he's
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got a black band because his father had
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been assassinated King George the first
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of these King George the first as you
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know was the brother of Queen Alexandra
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and Empress Marie of Russia and that's
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my grandfather's mother my
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great-grandmother Queen Olga and this
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bracelet is gone down through the
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generations and was stolen from my wife
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at Geneva Airport so it's a ruby and erm
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and we're trying to persuade the
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authorities now to try and find them
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that's my mother
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and these two are old King George the
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first of these that was as a young man
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just after he came through Greece from
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Denmark and that's in in later life this
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is the Queen when she came as Princess
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Elizabeth Prince Philip they came to
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this and this is taken at the cafe in
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Cape Sounion that's my father
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and that's Prince Phillip sister married
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to my mother's brother Prince George of
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Hannover and that's his two sons was
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Carlo Heston and Prince Reina this sweet
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little boy hears me
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this was painted by the Prince of Wales
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it's the island of Crete then he painted
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from the Britannia as they were passing
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on his honeymoon and this is painted by
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him not a fish and it's one of the
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monasteries which i think is very
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beautiful and you can see the evolution
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of the painter 40 years ago things were
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going to be very different thousands of
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Greeks lined the streets as the young
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handsome King a national hero for
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winning an Olympic gold medal married a
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beautiful princess from Denmark
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the future must have seemed so Saturn
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but this fairytale beginning was to go
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wrong and it would lead to the end of
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over a hundred years of Greek royalty so
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how did a family with such impeccable
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credentials such an illustrious ancestry
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come to lose everything
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crown prince constantine was selected to
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represent Greece in the Rome Olympics of
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1960 here he is leading the team at the
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opening ceremony his sport was sailing
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his boyhood friend Costas remembers the
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prince when they were still at school
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together
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he always wanted to do things for the
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good of a team I was in charge of the
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athletics and perhaps sometimes I needed
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somebody to participate too who would
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only get one point
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come fifth for six he always wanted to
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tell he was a real sportsman
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we hoped going to the Olympics that if
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we were lucky and if we could be working
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very well we might get a sixth place
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this was our aim not to really humiliate
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our country we never expected will the
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movie nobleman
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wonderful I mean we felt fantastic and
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the idea of getting up onto the podium
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and having the mental program view and
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seeing the great flag go up and listen
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to Greek national anthem was I always to
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say that that was the best feeling my
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life other than getting engaged so I
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mean that was a fantastic situation gold
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medal or not King Constantine has not
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been welcomed in Greece for half his
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lifetime
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unlike the boat in which he won gold
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which is the pride of the Greek Yacht
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Club in Piraeus cool this afternoon and
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we were talking about it and we thought
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that were actually putting the boat into
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the water one day in having a girl but
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she's lovely beautiful back at the club
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for the first time since he was exiled
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in 1967 it's an emotional time for
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constant I'm 36 years to be able to say
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- I said welcome to the club or which I
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remember
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and welcome to the club that I have
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known of the Admiral
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nearly half a century earlier the gold
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medal-winning crown prince was greeted
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by his father king pole on the tarmac at
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athens air for Constantine was killed by
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his country as a national hero they
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estimated that because it was the first
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medal in 50 years I think they were
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estimating something about a million and
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a half people who came into the states
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and what sharing the two members of my
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crew and myself to win a gold medal it's
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an incredible thing and for the crown
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prince at that time to win a gold medal
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was an amazing thing and you can never
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take that away from you you can take
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almost anything away from a person but
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you can never take his gold medal away
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just about everything else was taken
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away from him 26 kilometers north of
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Athens is a ten thousand acre estate
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called Tatoi
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at its center is this house which has
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been unoccupied since December in 1967
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it was once the family home to
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generations of the kings and queens of
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greece constantine was only 27 and on
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the throne for less than three years
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when the nightmare of every monarch came
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true overthrow of the established order
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by military force the queen was
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expecting her eldest son and well we
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heard about it about two o'clock at
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night and I called my aide who lived in
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the house up there and he came down not
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knocked on this door lovely old door and
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I just went to the telephone and tried
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to find out what was going on and tried
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to call the government and the
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government had been arrested and tried
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to call different commanders telephone
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lines were being cut all the time
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and then we heard that the tanks had
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reached the gate so I sent my security
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officers to go meet all the commanding
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officer of the tank squadron doesn't
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come up here to come speak to me but
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they just arrested my security officer
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so I realized that they had very
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unfriendly intentions and I asked my
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security to withdraw up till here
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they're only about 20 men and we they
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had on that bit there they had about I
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think four submachine guns and a couple
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revolvers that's about it were you
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afraid you know your life no you don't
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have time for that I mean you have to
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you're so busy you have to be in a
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terrible try and work out what's going
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on and try to solve the problem and then
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I were down to melody headquarters to
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try and work out what to do next and how
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to get my country out of this mess
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this mess was a result of Greek politics
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in the mid-1960s which were in turmoil
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the cool came about a month before a
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general election for a left-wing victory
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was certain afraid of civil chaos and
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their own loss of political power a
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section of the army led by a brigadier
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in two Colonels took the country by
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force over 10,000 people were arrested
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the former King Constantine has never
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talked in detail about those dangerous
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days and rarely gives interviews I was
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invited to meet him at his home in North
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London okay can you explain to us in the
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most simple and straightforward terms
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possible
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what exactly happened in 1967 it's the
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most ghastly feeling you can have to see
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your country disintegrate in front of
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your eyes within hours my whole aim that
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day was to try and find a system whereby
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we wouldn't end up killing each other
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and in the Civil War we had just been
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through all that in the 40s and I tried
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to find a way to solve this problem
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without getting any blood spilled not an
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easy task the King's strategy surprised
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many this formal photograph was taken
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just after the coup when Constantine
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still his official head of state swore
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in the Colonel's as the new legitimate
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government many people have wondered
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that maybe you gave the new government
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after the coup a sense of legitimacy by
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recognizing them how would you answer
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those critics well the legitimacy came
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because I swore in the government that
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day and the reason I swore that
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government in that day is that I felt
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that if I didn't do that
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and then try to gain time after the
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swearing-in we would go into as I said
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before a possibility of civil strife
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between the military units the prime
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minister of the day who was arrested
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also I managed to get him out of his
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confinement and I forced the comes to
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releasing because I wanted to talk
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I'm gonna get his advice and he also
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thought that maybe I should arrest all
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these people so I said to her look how
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did you expect me to arrest him I don't
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have any units at my disposal am I gonna
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I can't physically arrest them he said
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what are you gonna do and I said well
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what I thought I'd do is swear in a
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government with a few military people as
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possible more civilians as possible and
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then try to gain time to organize a
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counter-coup and go to democracy and he
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said well I suspect that that's probably
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the only sensible way of going about it
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many people say that the king should
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have used his rights actually to dismiss
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the military regime not to put up with
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it and if necessary actually draw his
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pistol on officers who were creating a
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revolutionary situation against the
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established order military commanders
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and political leaders were among those
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arrested within hours of the Colonel's
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coup
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the king was alone what were the options
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open to him it's very easy with
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hindsight or even from the sidelines
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to criticize somebody for what they did
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or didn't do I feel that the King always
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acted rightly but an extraordinarily
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difficult situation you expected some
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sacrifice from your King and the
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sacrifice would have been necessarily to
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expose his life or to expose to his
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family to any danger but to stand up and
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say no I do not accept this military
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coup in fact he did the opposite
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Constantin claims he did the opposite to
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create a smokescreen to mask his real
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intentions of a fight back against the
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coup but exposed to the harsh glare of
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international newsreels his behavior and
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loop like collaboration cracking eggs at
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Easter the king appeared to be on best
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terms with the military hunter he says
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his mindset was very different somebody
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asked me one day when did I planned to
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overthrow them and I said ten minutes
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after I heard that they were making the
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coup which was ten o'clock at two
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o'clock in the morning from day one he
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was thinking how can I extricate myself
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from this situation how can I actually
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save Greece from this fate the trouble
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with making a coup is that you had to
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have a devious mind and the generals are
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senior generals of myself haven't a clue
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how to do this so it was a really an
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improvised situation he had one card in
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his hand if he didn't Trump them he lost
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it took me eight months to try and set
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it all up and then in December before
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Christmas on the 13th of December I
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moved and tried to overthrow the cons he
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didn't succeed so I had to leave the
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country and then went into exile
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I chose to leave for the simple reason
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that if I did stay it would end up with
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military units shooting at each other
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the Brother killing brother father
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killing son there was no purpose in that
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if my efforts to overthrow the council
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restore democracy were to be successful
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then they had to be successful in the
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first two hours you contract that sort
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of thing on
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if you could wind back the clock being a
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and older and much wiser man is there
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anything you would have done differently
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I would have done most of their things
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the same way but far better
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in the small hours of a chilly Thursday
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the 14th of December 1967 the Greek
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royal family fled into exile the royal
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plane landed in Rome with only 5 minutes
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of fuel remaining the family took few
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possessions with them
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the few people knew the Queen was in the
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early stages of pregnancy under intense
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media scrutiny the king maintained his
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characteristic silence in a strange
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country cut off from all that was
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familiar the royal refugees had a little
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idea of what the future might hold an
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old friend of the King remembers this
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stressful time well I went to Rome tried
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to find him and not knowing what to
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expect and he opened the door it was
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very moving I was very moved he was very
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moved he thought that I was arrested but
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I was not and it was a very difficult
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moment of his life because it was the
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night the day that the Queen had lost a
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baby she was expecting when she left on
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the 13th of December from Greece and she
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lost her baby on the 16th we decided to
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stay in Rome initially because that's
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enough fuel that I had in my plane when
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I left Greece I couldn't go any further
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so we landed there and so I wanted
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symbolically to show the Greek people
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that while they were under dictatorship
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we were they were not forgotten and we
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would work for their freedom two weeks
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after his failed fight back newsreel
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cameras recorded this the royal family
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apparently without a care in the world
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enjoying Christmas at the Greek
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ambassador's residence in Rome this show
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of normality might have fitted with
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royal protocol but it wasn't doing the
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Kings image any favors
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the next step you would have expected
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from the king of Greece from a king with
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any country was to condemn the status
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quo existing in his country he never did
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that while he was in exile while he was
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abroad and that counts a lot that counts
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a lot as time passed the Colonel's
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hunter tightened its grip and became
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increasingly brutal crushing any
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opposition gruesome stories of torture
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and oppression emerged there were
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worldwide protests the king in exile
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remains silent finally in July 1973 the
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military regime declared that Greece was
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now a republic and the king was formally
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deposed once they abolish the monarchy I
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had to find means of my for survival and
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so I left Rome and the family went
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initially to Denmark I came to London to
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find a place to stay and then the whole
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family joined me here and we've been
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here since nineteen well the end of the
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1974 early you mentioned there a means
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for survival that's an intriguing point
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I mean I have no idea what a person in
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your situation that does for sustenance
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what do you do to support yourself and
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you and your family it's difficult it's
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difficult but slowly slowly one has to
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adapt and one has to find means of doing
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that but initially it was quite a
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problem but these things happened I know
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you willing to tell me how you overcame
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the problems well it's it's very private
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that so but which we managed to survive
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in 1974 the king and queen settled into
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the Surrey village of trouble with their
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three children
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alexia pavlov's and Niklaus later that
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same year the hunter collapsed naturally
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the Greek royal family were optimistic
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about a return to Greece but the new
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democratic government ordered a
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referendum on the future of the
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Constitution and the monarchy claiming
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it might cause civil unrest the new
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Prime Minister said he would telephone
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the King when he could return the call
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never came and the King campaigned from
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exile in England Greece voted two to one
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for the abolition of the monarchy up
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until you lost your place in Greek life
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how did you feel your relationship was
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with the public it was very much the
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same as it is in England I mean in all
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the big state functions and going let's
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say on the national days there were huge
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crowds industry it's identifying the
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king over the crown but the seconds of
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our life changed you know when the
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dictator should happen and then I had to
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leave the country then I was away from
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the public for so long it was very
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difficult for the for me and for them
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because you can't equate with him and
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since the referendum in 1974 he's
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officially been ex king of Greece
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although even today in the court
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circular which is published in British
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newspapers
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he's always referred to as King
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Constantine of the Hillians today the ex
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king of the Hellenes keeps in touch from
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England with events in Greece through
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satellite television had technology like
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this been available during the time of
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the Colonel's coup and the referendum
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Greek royal destiny may have been very
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different
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deposed in 1973 in living in exile ever
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since the former king of Greece
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Constantine has never formally renounced
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his status as a mana one of the reasons
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for this lies deep within the Greek
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tradition in the Greek Orthodox
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tradition the king is anointed actually
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at his coronation so once a king who was
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a king he will never until his dying day
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lose his status as a king it is a
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reigning king obviously at the present
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time he is not a reigning king he's an
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ex king that's his official status and I
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think is a status which he himself
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accepts do you think you are the last
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king of Ares do you think that you will
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indeed be the last king of Greece well
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according to the constitution of my
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country that is that is the case
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according to you I don't no idea what's
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happening in the future it's very hard
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to say
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the court of king constantine resides
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here on the sixth floor of this london
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building it's a far cry from life in a
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palace the business of being an ex-king
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has been conducted from these modest
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offices since the late 1970s
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Constantine still signs with the royal
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signature the Kings office receives
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around a hundred and fifty thousand
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letters a year most address to his
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majesty or King Constantine no surprise
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then that he still thinks he's a king
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always they wish to be very well with
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his family and the most important wish
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for them is to see him in Greece just
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like members of most royal families the
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King gets muntins
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of gifts all these items come from
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members of the public in Greece who come
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to England and come and want to come and
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see me and then they bring all these
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different icons as a gift and they come
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from clergymen or students or just
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anybody and they always bring an icon
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just for protection and blessings so I
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keep them here as a collection the
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soldiers if my memory serves me
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correctly they were collected by Prince
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Philip Colin I something it's at all God
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the former king of Greece has redefined
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his life whether he Shaffer in Queen
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Elizabeth the second on a golf buggy at
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his son's wedding reception or joining
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Prince Philip and other royals on the
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dance floor the former King Constantine
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remains firmly at the center of the
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royal merry-go-round
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and was in this elite group he plays a
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vital role in constant time as former
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king of Greece is one of the most
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important linchpins in European
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aristocracy specifically because he was
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freed by this exile and by the
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referendum how is he used as a linchpin
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well he's the Clapham Junction of
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monarchy which means that his private
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family occasions became natural
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gathering pools for everyone to come
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from Spain from Denmark from Britain and
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it was a good occasion for inter
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European royalty to me
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[Applause]
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for instance on his 60th birthday he
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invited a number of high-profile guests
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including royalty who with whom their
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family one of them - two people were
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Prince Charles and Camilla Bowles and
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that was the first time that the couple
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Charles and Camilla was seen together in
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public it was a happy occasion for me
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and I just asked him if he would join I
556
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mean you know it was my birthday and he
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very sweetly hosted the the lunch and so
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I asked if they would all be there you
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know and but it served its purpose
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because after that the Charles and
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Camilla trained to sort of gather some
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momentum and perhaps be tested in the
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media and on the British public
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it seems to me that talking to people
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and reading things but before speaking
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to you that you occupy a unique position
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00:29:32,430 --> 00:29:37,200
you're almost a sort of a diplomat if
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you like for a European royalty are
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behind the scenes mover and shaker I
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mean how do you regard your role well
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it's a funny way of putting it I don't
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feel it that way I feel that they're all
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my family and I was in in in a position
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many years ago I'm not in that position
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00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,130
now but I still equate with them and I
576
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can get on with them very well and it's
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much more from my point of view looking
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at them as a family with the knowledge
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that they have a very important job to
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do in the final analysis or what we all
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try to do is service to the people
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that's basically what monarch is all
583
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about although he no longer has a throne
584
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:22,560
there is evidence that Constantine still
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holds real influence in Greece and that
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he can provoke the Greek government in
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1993 the family went on a yachting
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holiday around the Greek islands having
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reportedly agreed to avoid populated
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areas he sailed into this port in
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southern Greece for fuel the Royal party
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was shadowed by Greek naval destroyers
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and buzzed by a Hercules aircraft he was
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tracked all over the place until he was
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finally obliged to sail away and not to
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disturb their peace and longer their
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nerve the Greek government's nerves
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couldn't take and that may be why a year
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later the Greek government seized the
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Kings ten thousand acre estate at Tatoi
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for the king returning to Tatoi the home
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he was forced to abandon nearly 40 years
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00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:26,269
ago it's a sentimental journey Tatoi is
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now a national park
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this was my home this was where we this
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was what I called home this is where we
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lived
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there's a lot of emotion in this old
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place because it was originally bought
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by my great-grandfather King George the
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first who came to this country from
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Denmark as a young man of aged about 17
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and became the king of the Hellenes and
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he reigned for 50 years it was not
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bought by money that came to him as a
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salary it was money that came from
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Denmark
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he bought it himself so he could have
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his own private place since it was
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bought in 1871 the estate of Tatoi has
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passed down through several generations
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00:32:16,290 --> 00:32:21,840
of the Greek royal family since being in
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00:32:19,170 --> 00:32:25,850
exile Constantine has had to fight to
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establish his right to his own land
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00:32:30,650 --> 00:32:36,500
house on the right was where all the
626
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vineyards were
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and that by the Stags used to love
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00:32:38,779 --> 00:32:43,250
coming in there all they said oh no what
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00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:44,658
the dump we're doing this for this is
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00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:47,480
just for the public don't know what it
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00:32:44,659 --> 00:32:49,700
is but all this was vineyards and I had
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to put up huge fences because they used
633
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:55,990
to go and eat all the grapes and they
634
00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:55,990
would roll like mad and that whole area
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that's what you see down there that that
636
00:33:00,890 --> 00:33:05,090
patch I don't if you can see it behind
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00:33:02,809 --> 00:33:08,120
that lovely tree that's when I had my
638
00:33:05,090 --> 00:33:10,010
helipad needs to land my helicopter to
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00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,830
come home from my office to have lunch
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with the the Queen in my little daughter
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00:33:12,830 --> 00:33:25,840
and then I would fly back again to work
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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royal possessions are a bit of a hot
646
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,540
potater who do they belong to they
647
00:34:08,949 --> 00:34:13,779
belong to the throne
648
00:34:10,540 --> 00:34:15,730
ergo to the state or do they belong to
649
00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:18,480
the person which means private
650
00:34:15,730 --> 00:34:22,210
possessions it's difficult to sort of
651
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:25,149
clarify for certain what belongs to whom
652
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well maybe not that difficult the one
653
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occupied throughout the 1970s and 80s
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the king paid ownership tax on Tatoi so
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as far as the Greek text authorities
656
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were concerned it did seem to be his
657
00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:40,240
house it's difficult to describe I mean
658
00:34:37,649 --> 00:34:41,500
why do they do why did they take it away
659
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:46,479
it's oh it's very hard to describe
660
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whether it's a spite or envy I have no
661
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,990
idea it's really very difficult to
662
00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:55,719
understand there's no logic to it at all
663
00:34:49,989 --> 00:34:57,250
and it was an estate that was bought by
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00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,709
the family this is where we lived this
665
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was our home most of our family were
666
00:34:59,710 --> 00:35:06,460
born here died here my son our son was
667
00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:18,310
born here I'm trying to figure out which
668
00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:21,790
room was it done he is not officially
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pond and there was a pond is underneath
670
00:35:21,790 --> 00:35:29,890
here and there's the swimming pool which
671
00:35:24,910 --> 00:35:33,098
was a massive failure wasn't very good
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and then further down behind the trees
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is a small place where there was a
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00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:41,560
tennis court it's very thick all this
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you see all these things my father used
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00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,570
to come out in the mornings every day of
677
00:35:43,660 --> 00:35:49,859
his life and clear on the undergrowth so
678
00:35:46,570 --> 00:35:49,859
you could see quite far away
679
00:35:53,160 --> 00:36:01,870
he was asking to be allowed to go to his
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home to use his property not the palace
681
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it is a private residence
682
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this was deliberately misconstrued by
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the Greek socialist government as being
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a threat as being an attempt to return
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by the back door into Greece and no
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amount of assurance by the king that
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that was not his intention seemed to be
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able to move them after ten years of
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negotiation paying all taxes and
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reaching agreement on the house a new
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government you turned and seized Tatoi
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in 1994 the royal family was stripped of
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00:36:39,820 --> 00:36:44,830
passports and had to apply for Greek
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00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:47,379
citizenship King Constantine's patience
695
00:36:44,830 --> 00:36:50,560
finally snapped he went to the European
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Court of Human Rights I consider it the
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greatest insult in this world for a
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Greek to be told that he's not a Greek
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all that a Greek to be told that he has
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to apply for Greek nationality
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I was bonded I am Greek now Divac and
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00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:10,690
there are certain things that every
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00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,580
human being will not go further you
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cannot push an individual further and
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that's my limit
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I was born in my country I served in the
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Greek armed forces
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I paid Greek taxes I won a gold medal
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for this the first Gold level Greece's
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era one in any spot in 15 years and I
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became the head of state of Greece and I
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think that anything beyond that is
713
00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:33,410
totally nonsense
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that's my father and that's my mother
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and these leaves I brought them here in
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the beginning of March because it was
717
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the 40th anniversary of my father's
718
00:37:58,550 --> 00:38:04,310
passing away and I had a memorial
719
00:38:01,730 --> 00:38:06,980
service so we put the leaves here of my
720
00:38:04,310 --> 00:38:09,290
family and my sister's family from Spain
721
00:38:06,980 --> 00:38:13,630
and now they'll have to clear them all
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00:38:09,290 --> 00:38:16,490
away because they both looked rather sad
723
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after long deliberation the European
724
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Court ruled that the human rights of
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00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:24,680
King Constantine had been violated Tatoi
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was his but he still didn't get the
727
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:29,509
house back because the ruling allowed
728
00:38:26,990 --> 00:38:32,839
for compensation to be paid rather than
729
00:38:29,510 --> 00:38:37,090
returning the king seized property in
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this my grandfather King Constantine and
731
00:38:37,090 --> 00:38:47,099
also my grandmother in Queen Sofia who
732
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:49,900
was the sister of has a villain
733
00:38:47,099 --> 00:38:53,039
today as he walks around his family's
734
00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:55,509
graveyard the king is just a visitor
735
00:38:53,039 --> 00:38:57,519
it's as if the Greek government had
736
00:38:55,509 --> 00:39:01,059
wished to wipe oil history from the
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00:38:57,519 --> 00:39:03,578
records since under air if you want to
738
00:39:01,059 --> 00:39:07,179
over Greece's there whose specialist
739
00:39:03,579 --> 00:39:10,900
father my grandmother is there who's the
740
00:39:07,179 --> 00:39:14,339
sister of the Kaiser my Ganga is there
741
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:16,989
who was the son of the King of Denmark
742
00:39:14,339 --> 00:39:21,969
Queen Sophia was also the granddaughter
743
00:39:16,989 --> 00:39:25,719
of Queen Victoria so you see everybody
744
00:39:21,969 --> 00:39:28,269
comes from two two sides Denmark King
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00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:32,769
Christian the ninth Britain Queen
746
00:39:28,269 --> 00:39:36,758
Victoria and they all crisscross to ask
747
00:39:32,769 --> 00:39:38,979
you if you get the book of all the
748
00:39:36,759 --> 00:39:43,650
families it'll take you a long time to
749
00:39:38,979 --> 00:39:46,859
work it alone so I think Prince Andrew's
750
00:39:43,650 --> 00:39:46,859
over there
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[Music]
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in the spring of 2003 with all five of
753
00:40:10,390 --> 00:40:14,830
their children the king and queen felt
754
00:40:12,670 --> 00:40:18,180
able to visit Greece for the first time
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00:40:14,830 --> 00:40:18,180
in nearly 40 years
756
00:40:21,509 --> 00:40:26,559
having won his case in the European
757
00:40:24,069 --> 00:40:30,819
Court King Constantine clearly felt
758
00:40:26,559 --> 00:40:33,400
relaxed about returning home with all
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00:40:30,819 --> 00:40:36,600
disputes resolved he was keen to test
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the reaction of the Greek government
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I think with the case finished in
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November and we took the plane and went
763
00:40:42,270 --> 00:40:46,560
back to reach in February which I think
764
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:50,300
took a lot of people by surprise but at
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00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:53,970
least we broke ties I was with him every
766
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board in the States was nice to them
767
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everybody was agreed everybody greeted
768
00:40:57,150 --> 00:41:01,350
them all the media was after them they
769
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weren't about 10 television cameras
770
00:41:01,350 --> 00:41:08,040
following them so the government could
771
00:41:03,990 --> 00:41:10,229
not react anymore they were apparently
772
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:13,610
relaxed meeting the people of northern
773
00:41:10,230 --> 00:41:16,170
Greece some issues remained unresolved
774
00:41:13,610 --> 00:41:17,880
one of these was that the funds the
775
00:41:16,170 --> 00:41:20,580
government used to pay the king in
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00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:24,360
compensation for Tatoi had a political
777
00:41:20,580 --> 00:41:27,360
sting in the tail upset me a lot was
778
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:30,030
that the compensation that they gave me
779
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:32,280
came from the budget that deals with
780
00:41:30,030 --> 00:41:36,150
natural catastrophes like earthquakes
781
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:39,270
and and and floods and I thought that
782
00:41:36,150 --> 00:41:41,280
was perhaps below the belt to take money
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00:41:39,270 --> 00:41:43,920
away from people who would need it
784
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because of this sort of catastrophe we
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have a request from a village in just
786
00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:53,880
north about that it's there about four
787
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four or five villages that were very
788
00:41:53,880 --> 00:42:00,030
badly affected by earthquake and spurred
789
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on by their sense of injustice the royal
790
00:42:00,030 --> 00:42:04,860
family sought a way to get the money
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00:42:01,740 --> 00:42:06,569
back to the Greek disaster fund they
792
00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:09,270
formed a foundation to fund the
793
00:42:06,570 --> 00:42:11,850
rebuilding of shattered communities it's
794
00:42:09,270 --> 00:42:15,000
named after the Queen the anna maria
795
00:42:11,850 --> 00:42:21,299
foundation i would like to see and then
796
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:23,130
check for what which in which means
797
00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:29,250
actually that the sooner we can go to
798
00:42:23,130 --> 00:42:32,150
see it he's developed his life as best
799
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he can but always having as the
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touchstone what he can offer to greece
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and the people of greece
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he remains to all intents and purposes
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their king in waiting if they need him
804
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and there's no doubt that is one of the
805
00:42:51,549 --> 00:42:55,359
veterans of the International Olympic
806
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:59,470
Committee the King helped get the
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00:42:55,359 --> 00:43:02,859
Olympic Games to Greece in 2004 yeah I
808
00:42:59,470 --> 00:43:05,348
think he did everything he could I know
809
00:43:02,859 --> 00:43:07,839
that during the bid he went to his
810
00:43:05,349 --> 00:43:10,210
friends at the IOC and the IOC is a
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strange group I'm an IOC member there's
812
00:43:10,210 --> 00:43:15,789
only a hundred and twenty of us so it's
813
00:43:11,980 --> 00:43:17,380
a very close for turnit II and so you
814
00:43:15,789 --> 00:43:20,950
know you do have your friends and he
815
00:43:17,380 --> 00:43:24,490
went to them I'm sure he went to 30 or
816
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40 of them and said look at time for
817
00:43:24,490 --> 00:43:28,770
athletes I think he worked very hard
818
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:34,410
though looking like an ordinary family
819
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at shopping or on a sightseeing trip
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even a casual stroll around Athens
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become something of a royal walkabout
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when you go back to Greece then do you
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have any sort of protection do you have
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Corden's well you know you just walk
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down the street you just walk down suits
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do people talk to you all the time they
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are very honest about it because they'll
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come up to you and they'll either cheer
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you or kiss you or argue or tell you
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that they voted against you in the
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referendum with a big smile on their
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face and you know you just tell well
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that's just fine but I mean that's fine
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you don't take that personal no no no
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you can't take these things personally I
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mean the decision of people was final
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they took it and that I have to live
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with that so what am I supposed to do I
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can't cry every day these days the ex
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king of Greece travels by tube today
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he's showing his younger daughter
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Theodora and her friend where he got
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married in 1964 all the troops land up
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and the character would came out through
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here stop there and your mother went in
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through here with her long waiting list
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and they would call it the veil I mean
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just before she won didn't she turn
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around and wave
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it's all new to me anyway so it was in a
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way quite strange what the movie action
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was inside
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falling down from up there and that's
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what we tried to emulate for my both my
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sons and my
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and no rice in the church and outside
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driving around the carriage people with
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the horses I've never got a little bit
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excited to start my tweets which it
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wasn't - at least it was an open case I
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thought what if anything happens I can
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always jump he acts on me I will invite
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you in the new opening if she finds a
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nice husband we can have the wedding
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here she will find a nice husband for
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princess Theodora there is the
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tantalizing prospect of a wedding in the
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same Cathedral as her parents the former
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king of Greece remains philosophical
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about his chances of a return to the
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throne it's difficult for we are not
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00:46:38,619 --> 00:46:45,920
politicians politicians strive for this
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chair strive for this position of power
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and they do everything they can to get
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it the very few exceptions or
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politicians who realize the time is up
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and they have to leave I've had this
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privilege this I've had this sense of
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00:46:58,039 --> 00:47:02,839
responsibility before it's not my aim to
881
00:47:00,349 --> 00:47:05,960
try to get it back again for me the
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predominant thing in my mind is that my
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country should live in peace my country
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should be happy and successful and my
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job is to do whatever I can to help it
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as a private citizen
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constantine could never really be just a
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00:47:17,860 --> 00:47:22,180
private citizen in greece when three
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generations of the monarchy turned up
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for the first royal christening in
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greece for 40 years it was a media scrum
892
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the Brothers Grimm might have the king
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returning to reclaim his throne but in
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the real world of a modern group
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democracy such a simple fairytale ending
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is unlikely
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