does anyone know if greece was a monarchy before?

Question

does anyone know if greece was a monarchy before?

Answer 1

Yes, Greece was a monarchy until 1967, when the then king Constantine, was overthrown by the military junta (which was supported by you guess who...the "freedom fighters of the world").

Constantine, along with his wife Anna Maria and their 2 children were exiled to Italy where they still live today.

BTW any bitterness you sense by Greeks to foreign powers stems from the fact (among others) that they (foreign powers) supported a very oppressive military junta that reigned Greece for 7 miserable years before democracy was restored again and has been there ever since

Answer 2

Just about any european country you could point at was a monarchy at some point in the past, if not as a single nation, it was split up as several monarchies, or parts of different monarchies.

Answer 3

There was a monarchy imposed to Greece by foreign powers, when Greece became independent. Then we had the Bavarian king Otto imposed to us, we sent him away, and then another dynasty from Denmark was imposed to us, that we also sent away.

Answer 4

No, Greece in its entirety was not a monarchy. It was a confederal government overall, allowing each city-state to do what it chose. Athens was a democracy while Sparta was a monarchy.

Answer 5

Swenson gave you the correct answer. We had monarchy until 33 years ago between some intervals of...chaos and between the wars. The name of the monarchs was Glyxbourg (1863-1974).

Answer 6

Of course everybody knows that. Greece used to have a King until the junta tossed him away. Then in 1974, when the junta was brought down, people of Greece decided to have a Republic. They now have a president, a prime minister etc.

The former king lives in exile in UK. Also Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburg (husband of Queen Elizabeth II, is of Greek origin).

Answer 7

This is a list of the Kings of Greece, formally known, since 1863, by the title of King of the Hellenes. However, King Constantine II was exiled in 12/13/67







George I

Children

Constantine I

Prince George

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia

Prince Nicholas

Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna of Russia

Princess Olga

Prince Andrew

Prince Christopher

Grandchildren

Prince Peter

Princess Eugénie, Duchess of Castel Duino

Olga, Princess Paul of Yugoslavia

Princess Elizabeth, Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent

Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Theodora, Margravine of Baden

Princess Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

Sophie, Princess George of Hanover

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Michael

Great Grandchildren

Princess Alexandra

Princess Olga

Constantine I

Children

George II

Alexander I

Elena, Queen of Romania

Paul I

Irene, Duchess of Aosta

Princess Katherine

Alexander I

Children

Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia

George II

Paul I

Children

Sofia, Queen of Spain

Constantine II

Princess Irene

Constantine II

Children

Princess Alexia

Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece

Prince Nikolaos

Princess Theodora

Prince Philippos

Grandchildren

Princess Maria-Olympia

Prince Constantine Alexios

Prince Achileas-Andreas

Prince Odysseas-Kimon

Answer 8

until 1974 it was a constitutional monarchy when with a plebicite the Greek people opted for the current form of government

Answer 9

Yes. The last king was the brother of Sofia of Spain

Answer 10

I know Prince Phillip ( you husband of the Queen) is called Prince Phillip of Greece.....so it must have been...before...

Answer 11

Yes - the king is exiled and lives in England - dont know

what he lives on.

Answer 12

I also know that he was of the royal European lineage (I forget the family. Habsburgs?) and planted there by European powers. Never understood how that can happen. It's a good thing a fake royalty is gone.

Answer 13

Yes. Next question...

Answer 14

Yes...