1901 - 1964
The third son of King of Greece Constantine I,
Paul left Greece with his father after the overthrow of Constantine in 1917. He refused the crown after the death of his brother, King Alexander in October 1920, but returned home in December 1920 after the restoration of Constantine on the throne. With the advent of republican sentiment in the country, however, he again left Greece in December 1923 and ostvalsya in exile until 1935, when his brother George was called to the throne. In 1938,
Paul married his young cousin, Princess Frederika Brunswick. By this time he was promoted to officer in the Greek army. He was a member of the Joint Staff during the war with Italy in 1940. In 1941 he escaped from occupied Greece and lived in Cairo, and, then, South Africa.
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