History of a royal family with more than its share of tragedy and disaster

Biography of the former Greek king, who is known as either Constantine II (because he was the 2nd king of modern Greece with that name) or Konstantine XIII (because his government claimed to be a continuation of the Byzantine Empire, which ...

ON October 29th, 1863, King George made his entry into the capital of Greece; on the following day he took the oath to the Constitution.It must be acknowledged that, if the Greeks up to this moment had been opposed one to another in open ...

IT is not my intention to attempt a minute portrait of the King any more than to write his history.

... Greece. A military coup ousts King Constantine I. 27 September: George II becomes king. 1923 24 July: Treaty of Lausanne establishes Greece and Turkey's boundaries and imposes an exchange of populations; approximately 1.5 million ...