by Christos Zabounis

A century has passed since the Venizelian propaganda used the name of a Duchy, which today belongs to Germany, and formerly to Denmark, to project the foreign character of the Greek dynasty. What hypocrisy! It is the foreign factor, more specifically the Anglo-French, who, pushing for our country to join the Entente, agreed with the then prime minister, in the use of the bad-sounding, in fact, Gluksburg. In the year 2025, the second-born son of King Constantine, formerly of the Greeks, as is his official title, signed his marriage certificate, in the office of the Holy Church of Nikolaos Ragavas, as Nikolaos de Gres. He is now officially Greek and has a Greek surname – De Grece, which means of Greece in French. So, did the “foreigners” suddenly become ours? Let’s not be fooled. Especially for the newlywed, one would have to blind oneself in order not to admit that the… Aegean flows in his blood. A volunteer, since he returned from exile, at the A.M.K.E. (Urban Non-Profit Company) Axion Hellas, he plows the barren line every year, helping in every way, from loader to doctor’s secretary. His decision to enter into a marriage union with another volunteer of the same charitable organization cannot be understood as just a coincidence. Moreover, she is Greek. Chryssi de Grece by law. HRH, Her Royal Highness Princess Nikolaos according to protocol.