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Restored in greece, he was unpopular with people across the political system. they had a referendum on whether to restore the monarchy and the resounding answer was no, he was stripped of his title says palace confiscated and he remained living in this rather quiet north london neighbourhood. and yet he always referred to himself as king constantine, referred to as children as prince and princess, and when people came to visit him, there are expected to call him at your majesty. this is a man, y...

Well in power, there were seven since the 19th century, and three of them were deposed, one was assassinated, two advocated and one king died after he was bitten by a monkey and gut septicaemia. so come in the end, for king constantine, dying peacefully an athens hospital, things could have been worse. i dont know that, you always surprise me. thank you very much, a chequered history, one might call that. the iconic italian film star gina lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. she shot to fame ...

Judges have granted permission for the governments plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda to be challenged at the court of appeal. high courtjudges previously rejected arguments that the plans were unlawful but today approved aspects of their ruling to be reconsidered by seniorjudges. the court of appeal will be asked to consider whether the high court judges were wrong to find sufficient safeguards to prevent asylum seekers being returned to a country where they were at risk of persecution, and ...

Paul moss is our europe regional editor and joins me now. tell us about constantine and how we ended up living in rather different circumstances from what you would expect for a member of the royalty? ? before everything went wrong, as you describe. he led a life, he was a gold medallist at the olympics, and became king in 1964 during a very turbulent period in increase. there was a coup in 1967 and this is the moment when constantine became a divisive. he was seen as being supported of the hunt...

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