(16 Jan 2023)
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Tatoi, Greece - 16 January 2023
1. Various of motorcade arriving
2. Various of people watching motorcade
3. Various of man holding Constantine's picture
4. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Savvas Savvas, Athens resident:
"I honour the royal family and their offer to Hellenism since 1828 until today."
5. Savvas wearing former royal Greek flag
6. Close of crown on former royal Greek flag
7. Various of people gathered
8. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Ioanna Mpouki, Athens resident:
"He was a very honest man if he allow others to influence him, he was a very honest man."
9. Various of people walking to burial site
10. Former Spanish King Juan Carlos leaving Tatoi
11. Various of people leaving the burial site as seen from distance
STORYLINE:
Former Greek king Constantine was buried near his parents and ancestors at Tatoi on Monday following a funeral service attended by royalty from across Europe.
Mourners had waited for the hearse carrying his casket to arrive at the former royal estate north of Athens.
Among them was Savvas Savvas, draped in an old Greek flag which had the crown at its centre, who said he wanted to honour the family's service to the country.
Once a richly forested site popular with Athenians for picnics and nature walks, Tatoi was ravaged by a wildfire about two years ago and had been mostly blackened and derelict ever since.
Cleanup crews worked feverishly since Constantine's death last week at the age of 82 to clean up the site in time for Monday's funeral.
Greece’s monarchy was definitively abolished in a referendum in 1974, and Constantine, a controversial figure during a turbulent time in Greek history, spent decades in exile before returning to settle in his home country in his waning years.
Constantine acceded to the throne in 1964 at the age of 23, already an Olympic sailing gold medalist.
The young king and his wife enjoyed huge popularity, which quickly eroded because of Constantine’s active involvement in the machinations that brought down the elected government of then Prime Minister George Papandreou.
AP video shot by Michael Varaklas
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