GREECE: Exhumation, Reinterment

At Naples, Italy, arrived the ex-Dowager Queen Sophia of Greece, sister of the ex-Kaiser, wife of the late ex-King Constantine of Greece. She had arrived to exhume her husband's body, take it to Florence, rebury it in the tomb of the Hellenic royal family.

At Rome, a number of royal princes and princesses boarded the train. Officials of the Hellenic Republic were conspicuous by their absence. Finally, at Florence, after an Orthodox Church service, the body was recommitted to the ground until such time as the Government at Athens permits it to...

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