The Kingdom of Greece existed from 1832 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1973. The last King of Greece was King Constantine II, who reigned from 1964 to 1973.
The claim to the Greek throne still survives today. There has not been a Queen of Greece in her own right. Any Queens mentioned here are consorts, and any Greek titles mentioned since the abolition of the monarchy are titular.
King Constantine II of Greece married Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark in 1964 – the same year he succeeded his father as King. Princess Anne-Marie was the youngest daughter of King Frederik IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden. Her elder sister would succeed their father as Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 1972. King Constantine and now Queen Anne-Marie would go on to have five children together, including the heir – Crown Prince Pavlos.
The family was exiled at the end of 1967, but still formally remained the King and Queen of Greece. The Greek Republic referendum of 1974 officially dethroned them. For a long time, the family was not allowed to return to Greece, and their Greek citizenship was taken from them. Eventually, this ban was lifted, and in 2013, Constantine and Anne-Marie returned to live in Greece. The former King died in Athens on 10 January 2023, passing his claim to the Greek throne to his eldest son, Crown Prince Pavlos.
Crown Prince Pavlos had married the British-born Marie-Chantal Miller in 1995. This makes Marie-Chantal the current titular Queen of Greece. She was born on 17 September 1968 as the second of three daughters of Robert Warren Miller and María Clara Pesantes Becerra. She attended the Peak School in Hong Kong until she was 9, when she moved to the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. She eventually transferred to the Ecole Active Bilingue in Paris before attending the Masters School in New York for her last year of high school. After receiving her diploma, she started a degree in History of Art at New York University, but she dropped out after one year.
That same year, she became engaged to Crown Prince Pavlos. She converted from Catholicism to Greek Orthodoxy in May 1995, and they married on 1 July 1995 at St Sophia’s Cathedral in London.
They went on to have five children: Princess Maria-Olympia (born 1996), Prince Constantine-Alexios (born 1998), Prince Achileas-Andreas (born 2000), Prince Odysseas-Kimon (born 2004) and Prince Aristidis-Stavros (born 2008). The claim to the Greek throne will eventually pass to their eldest son, Prince Constantine-Alexios.
As members of the extended Danish royal family, they are also Princes/Princesses of Denmark.
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