If you ever want to start a fight in a Greek taverna, start praising Queen Frederica in a loud voice and toast her memory. She managed to polarize the country. She was royal from the ground up, born imperious, and liked to express her opinions in ways that were guaranteed to outrage someone. She hated communists, for good reason. In Germany growing up, she'd belonged to Nazi youth groups and photos of her wearing uniforms decorated with swastikas and Nazi insignia were used as propaganda against her. When King Paul died, her son Constantine was still in hiis early twenties, and Frederica may have stuck her nose too much into state affairs. When Constantine was deposed and they came to arrest her, she pulled her last iimperious stunt. She screamed bloody murder until the reunited her with her son. She, Constantine, Anne Marie and Alexia flew out of Greece in a small plane. The plane was so small they had to leave other members of the royal family behind, including Prince Philips's mother Alice of Battenberg and Greece.
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