Word: frederika
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Franco made his move, Juan Carlos made a key decision of his own. Until recently, the prince (and husband of Greece's Princess Sophie, stormy Frederika's daughter) often vowed that he would "never, never" accept the throne as long as his father remained alive. This year, at last convinced that Don Juan could never become King, Juan Carlos began staking out his own claim. The prince still has no assurance, of course, that he will ever assume the throne and, even if the monarchy is restored, Franco has not specified what power it would have after...
...contrast to his Athens stable of flashy cars, he makes do with a blue Mercedes 280 S, which he uses for commuting to town. Up the road a few hundred yards, and overlooking the royal couple's home, are the more sumptuous quarters of Queen Mother Frederika and Princess Irene: a ten-bedroom mansion provided rent-free by Greek Millionaire Felix Mechoulam. Country life for the royal family has had its drawbacks. The dearth of servants is particularly perturbing. The royal court has been trimmed to three, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen and the two business aides...
...years of exile (most of it self-imposed) to fly in from Nice for the baptism. His grandfather, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 54, the pretender to the throne, interrupted a Caribbean cruise to be on hand. Also present was Sophie's mother, Queen Frederika of Greece. But the one that Spain was watching the closest of all was its own Caudillo Franco...
...News. Its claims were ridiculed by the small group around Constantine in the north. In Kavalla, Queen Anne-Marie and Queen Mother Frederika kissed the King goodbye and waved him off as he climbed aboard a helicopter for a short flight to the town of Alexandropolis to stir up more support. He returned in midafternoon and took off almost immediately for Salonica, where handbills proclaiming his coup had been dropped from air force planes. While he was in the air, he received the news that Salonica was under junta control. As he turned back to Kavalla, he faced a shattering...
...land that, despite recent economic progress, remains one of Europe's poorest. The royal way of life-a swirl of parties and yachting with Athens' small Establishment of shipowners and industrialists-is a source of resentment to the average Greek. Most resented is Queen Mother Frederika, who is regarded by most Greeks as an incurable meddler in the country's politics. Since the April coup, Greeks had rallied to Constantine mainly because the crown was the one legal institution that the junta had not destroyed; Greek politicians looked to Constantine to steer the counry back to representative...