Former king Constantine II passed away last week at the age of 82.
Yesterday, royals from around the world gathered in Athens to pay their respects to the last king of Greece. Constantine was related to many royal houses—his sister, Silvia, is the former Queen of Spain (making him uncle to the current king, King Felipe), and his sisters-in-law are Queen Margrethe, current queen of Denmark and Denmark's Princess Benedikte, who married into the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. In addition, he was cousins with Britain's King Charles and his siblings, including Princess Anne, who was in attendance.
Constantine, after spending much of his life in exile, spent the final years of his life in Athens. As he told T&C, "Look at ancient Greek history. All Greeks who live in exile, they want to go back. It's in the blood. Funnily enough, the one pushing hardest was my wife. I think she realized I would be happy only when I came back home." He was buried as a private citizen at Tatoi cemetery, a royal estate north of Athens.
"By the grace of God, you drew your last breath in our country, which you always loved above all else throughout your life," his eldest son, Pavlos, said in his eulogy. Constantine's children and grandchildren, he also said, "are ready, as you had always been, to offer Greece whatever the country asks of us."
Here, see photos of all the royals at Constantine's funeral—including the members of the Greek royal family.