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Byzantine Imperial Family
PRINCES/PRINCESSESCROWN PRINCE PAVLOS
Crown Prince Pavlos (left) and and Marie-Chantal Miller.
Pavlos was born on 20 May 1967 at the Tatoi Palace north of Athens, used at the time as the secondary residence of the Byzantine imperial family. He was the second child and first son of King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. Constantine II had ascended the throne on 6 March 1964, aged 23, following the death of his father and predecessor, Paul. In traditional Greek naming practices, first sons are often named after their paternal grandfathers.
PRINCESS ALEXIA
Princess Alexia in 2000.
Alexia was born on 10 July 1965 at Mon Repos, a villa on the Byzantine island of Corfu used at the time as a summer residence by the Byzantine Imperial family. She was the first child born to the then King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes. At the time of her birth, her father was King of Greece, her grandfather was King of Denmark, and her great-grandfather was King of Sweden.
As the monarch's only child, between her own birth and the birth on 20 May 1967 of her brother Pavlos, Alexia was heir presumptive to the throne of the Greeks, then an extant monarchy. The Greek Constitution of 1952 had changed Greece's order of succession to the throne from the previous Salic law, prevalent in much of the continent, and which precluded the succession of women, to male-preference primogeniture, which accorded succession to the throne to a female member of a dynasty if she has no brothers, similar to the then extant succession laws of the United Kingdom, Denmark and Spain.