Former Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, a renowned historian who stayed in the country through its dictatorship years, died Sunday at the age of 85, media reports said.
The prince, the last surviving grandson of assassinated Greek monarch King George I, died in hospital in Athens, the Kathimerini newspaper website reported.
After his father died when he was one-year-old, the prince grew up in Morocco and Spain, and later studied in France.
Michael was the only Greek royal to stay in the country after Former King Constantine I led a 1967 counter-coup against colonels who seized power months earlier. The king went into exile after his act. The dictatorship only ended in 1974.
The ex-prince published dozens of works after 1970, combining his historical knowledge with literary narrative.
He focused on historical subjects, covering a vast range from Greece, the Ottoman Empire, focusing on several biographies about members of ruling dynasties.
Source: AFP
