It is with deep emotion that, after thirty years, we hold the Greek citizenship again. The law of 1994 deprived us of our citizenship, rendering us stateless with all that this entails in terms of individual rights and great emotional distress.

Posted by ButIDigress79

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  1. Do they still have Danish titles and citizenship? And what does it mean to have “served” their country faithfully? If these people were serious about being Greek, they’d stop presenting themselves as the Greek Royal Family. It exists largely because England wanted it to exist not because the Greeks felt the desire to import a monarchy

  2. It’s time they adopt an actual surname instead of still carrying on like they represent Greece in any capacity. They should’ve been requested to drop those defunct titles and just be ordinary citizens of Greece. 

  3. “Our father and our family fully respected the result of the 1974 referendum” *and yet we refuse to drop our titles that the referendum removed*. Even in the announcement they sound pretentious in announcing their last name.

  4. Their statement is off putting. It reads like how a family of a deposed corrupt dictator who was exiled for a long time would react, and was politely granted the ability to come back to the motherland.

  5. A little bit of fact checking here.

    This is purely about citizenship and not the “Prince(ss) of Greece and Denmark” titles.

    The only members of the family that were ever actually stateless were Constantine, Alexia, Pavlos and Nikolaos.

    Queen Anne Marie never lost her Danish citizenship.

    Theodora and Philippos were entitled to Danish citizenship at birth. They were both also eligible for British citizenship at the time of their births.

    Alexia, Pavlos and Nikolaos are/were eligible to become naturalized Danish citizens via declaration. At the time of their birth Danish Nationality law had something called “The Princess Rule” (January 1, 1961 to March 29, 1978) that stated that children born to Danish mothers and foreign citizen fathers did not automatically become Danish citizens, but had an option for an easier pathway to Naturalization. Their cousin, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleberg naturalized in this way.

    The children of Pavlos and Marie-Chantal were never stateless. The would have derived citizenship through their mother, and for the ones born in the US, would have automatically been US citizens through the jus soli pathway anyway.

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