• 'Royals', Constantine of Greece, the worrying decline of Queen Sofia's brother
  • 'Royals', Constantine of Greece, the king who wore his own crown

Constantine of Greece (79), currently confined by the pandemic at his residence in Porto Jeli, in the Peloponnese, is in very poor health and his family fears that his deterioration will increase if the wedding of his daughter Theodora is delayed too long.

Already last summer of 2019 all alarms went off when a Greek newspaper published that the former monarch was admitted to a hospital in the city of Marusi, north of Athens, practically in the last few. Something that had to deny his office and Constantine himself, appearing publicly days later having dinner at a restaurant on the island of Spetses with his wife Ana María and granddaughter Olympia, eldest daughter of their eldest son Pablo and Marie Chantal.

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It was a false alarm of the many that have circulated lately about Doña Sofía's brother, whose health started down a hill since he underwent a heart surgery in London in 2009, where they replaced his aortic valve and performed a bypass . Subsequently, in 2013, a newcomer to Greece from his nearly half-century exile in London, he had to be operated again for an intestinal obstruction.

The pulmonary embolism that he suffered in 2016 ended up undermining his health, as he also began to suffer from serious mobility problems that today keep him tied to a wheelchair. This has also been complicated by speech difficulties, as was verified in 2017 during a conference in South Africa of the Round Square schools, which he presides over honorably, when he interrupted crying his speech, which had to be continued by his wife, Ana María, his great help.

Despite his ailments and impaired mobility, Constantine kept his spirits high, and he did not even deprive himself of traveling outside Greece to family events. He did not miss the 80th birthday of his sister Doña Sofía, with whom he is a nail and meat, celebrated in Zarzuela in November 2018. Nor did the wedding of Gabriela Windsor, daughter of the Duke of Kent, in London, nor the 50th birthday of her nephew Federico, the Danish heir, celebrated in Denmark in May 2019. Now his great illusion is to be able to act as godfather at the wedding of his young daughter, Teodora.

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