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Up for sale a RARE! “Paul of Greece” Hand Signed 3X5 Vintage B&W Photo. There is staining on this very rare item as shown.
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succeeded by his son, Constantine II. He was
first cousin to Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh and maternal grandfather to King Felipe VI of Spain. Paul was born at Tatoi Palace in Athens, the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and
his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia. He trained as an army officer at the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst and later at the Hellenic Military Academy in Kypseli, Athens. Paul was an army officer cadet in the Coldstream Guards and Lieutenant with the Evzones. From 1917 to 1920, Paul lived in exile with his
father, Constantine I. From 1923 to 1935, he lived in exile again in England,
this time with his brother, George II. He worked
briefly in an aircraft factory under an alias, and through Viscount Tredegar met and befriended notorious literary
muse Denham Fouts, who later
alleged an affair. However, Fouts's friend John B. L. Goodwin said
Fouts often made up stories about his life, and literary critic Katherine Bucknell thought
many of the tales about him were myths. To
his family, he was known as Palo. During most of World War II, from 1941 to 1946, when Greece was under German
occupation, Paul was with the Cairo, he broadcast messages to the Greek people. Paul returned to Greece
in 1946. He succeeded to the throne in 1947, on the death of his childless
elder brother, King George II, during
the Greek Civil the non-communist Greek government). In
1947 he was unable to attend the wedding of his first cousin, Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh to the future Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as he was suffering
from typhoid fever. By
1949 the Civil War was effectively over, with the Communist insurgents ceasing
the majority of their operations, and the task of rebuilding the shattered
north of the country began. In
the 1950s Greece recovered economically, and diplomatic and trade links were
strengthened by Paul’s state visits abroad. He became the first Greek Monarch
to visit a Turkish Head of State. However, links with Britain became strained
over Cyprus, where the majority Greek population favored union with
Greece, which Britain, as the colonial power, would not endorse. Eventually,
Cyprus became an independent state in 1960. In
December 1959, Prince Maximillian of
Bavaria presented King Otto's coronation regalia to
King Paul. It had been almost a century since they were last in Greece. Meanwhile,
republican sentiment was growing in Greece. Both Paul and Frederica attracted
criticism for their interference in politics, frequent foreign travels, and the cost of
maintaining the Royal Family. Paul responded by economising and donated his
private estate at Polidendri to
the State. In 1959, he had an operation for a cataract, and in 1963 an emergency operation for appendicitis. In late February 1964, he underwent a further
operation for stomach cancer, and died about a week later in Athens.[11] He was succeeded by his son, Constantine II.
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