George II, King of the Hellenes, was back in Greece last week to ascend for the third time his country's throne.* Although he is a third-generation Greek king by birth, the King (full name: George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glücksburg) still speaks Greek with a heavy foreign accent.
At London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom.
Not so gay was the arrival at Eleusis airport. The plane was ahead of schedule. Archbishop Damaskinos, the hulking Regent, and Constantin Tsaldaris, the choleric...
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