King of Greece from 1947 to 1964
A king whose throne kept vanishing. Paul of Greece spent more years in exile than on it — chased out twice as a child, once as an adult — then returned to rule a country tearing itself apart in civil war, only to be called a terrorist by the British press for backing the wrong reunification dream.
Born in Athens in 1901, Paul was eleven when he joined the navy and twelve when his father's forced abdication sent the family to Switzerland. His brother Alexander ruled briefly until his death in 1920 restored their father Constantine; another brother, George, took the throne in 1922 before a 1924 referendum abolished the monarchy entirely. In London exile Paul proposed to his first cousin Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia, who turned him down. The throne returned in 1935, and George — childless — made Paul his heir. Paul proposed to Frederica of Hanover at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, weather…
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