As a crowd of thousands chanted "Long live the king" and "Constantine, Constantine," the casket carrying the former and last monarch of Greece emerged from Athens' metropolitan cathedral today (Jan. 16, 2023) after a funeral service attended by royalty from across Europe, the Huff Post website reports.
Constantine's wife, Anne-Marie, the sister of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, and his oldest son, Pavlos, followed at the head of the funeral procession.
The casket, draped with the Greek flag, was loaded into a hearse for the trip to Tatoi, a former royal estate north of Athens where Constantine , 82, was to be buried near his parents and ancestors. A referendum abolished Greece's monarchy in 1974.
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