Prince Michael was a renowned writer and historian under the name Michel De Gres and was the last remaining grandson of George
\nI, with a lineage to the House of Bourbon through his mother\u2019s side of the family.<\/p>\n
The royal was well known for his marriage to Marina Karella, for whom he renounced his right to the Greek throne to marry in 1965.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his wife and their two daughters, Princess Olga of Savoy-Aosta and Princess Alexandra of Greece.<\/p>\n
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Prince Michael was the only child of Prince Christopher and the royal\u2019s second wife, Princess Francoise d\u2019Oleans of France.<\/p>\n
His father died at just 51 in 1940 after suffering from a short illness before his mother died in 1953, leaving the royal an orphan by the time he was 14.<\/p>\n
He studied political science in Paris before repatriating to Greece for military duty, where he served a term in the Hellenic Coast Guard in order to regain Greek citizenship.<\/p>\n
He was the only member of the Greek royal family to remain in the country in 1967 when the government fell to a right-wing military coup after his nephew<\/p>\n
King Constantine failed in his attempts to overthrow the junta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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