Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece

His father served as king from 1964 until 1973, when the Greek monarchy was abolished.

Pavlos was crown prince and heir apparent to the throne from birth until the monarchy's abolition.

He became head of the former Greek royal family following his father's death on 10 January 2023.

As a male-line descendant of Christian IX of Denmark he is a Danish prince, although not in succession to its throne.

Queens Margrethe II of Denmark and Sofía of Spain are his aunts, and Kings Felipe VI of Spain and Frederik X of Denmark his first cousins.

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.

His mother is the youngest sister of the Danish queen Margrethe II, and his father was the brother of Sofía, the former queen consort of Spain.

His maternal grandparents were Frederik IX of Denmark and his queen consort, Ingrid of Sweden.

Pavlos displaced his older sister, Alexia, as heir to the throne due to Greece's order of succession adhering to male-preference primogeniture.

Pavlos was born into a turbulent era in Greek politics.

Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, Prince of Denmark (Παύλος; born 20 May 1967), is the current head of the former Greek royal family.

He is the second child and eldest son of the last king of Greece, Constantine II, and Queen Anne-Marie.

Pavlos was born on 20 May 1967 at the Tatoi Palace north of Athens, used at the time as the secondary residence of the former Greek royal family.

He was the second child and first son of King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

Pavlos was born barely a month after a coup d'état which ended democratic rule in Greece over the king's objections on 21 April 1967, ushering in a military junta, led by Georgios Papadopoulos.

In December of that year, Constantine attempted a counter-coup that failed due to planning mistakes, leaks, and insufficient military support.

Pursued by the junta, Constantine fled with his wife, children, mother and sister to Rome.

They then went to Copenhagen and lived with Anne-Marie's mother, Queen Ingrid.

From 1967 to 1973, Greece officially remained a monarchy, with a regency appointed while the king lived in exile.

Following the discovery and suppression of a "wide-ranging" anti-junta movement, just before its outbreak, among the ranks of the mostly royalist Navy, Papadopoulos, on 1 June 1973, declared Greece a presidential republic with himself as president and proclaimed a referendum for 1 June 1973 on the issue of the monarchy.

The referendum was held without opposition and its result confirmed the regime change, with Constantine becoming "officially" deposed.

On 17 November 1974, after the fall of the dictatorship, the 1974 Greek legislative election was held, resulting in a victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his New Democracy party.

Less than a month later, on 8 December, the Greek plebiscite of 1974 confirmed the referendum of the previous year: the majority voted for a republic (69%) with a minority voting for the restoration of the monarchy (31%).

Constantine announced that he "respects" the "decision of the Greek people."

He and Anne Marie had been living with their family in London for several years.

Pavlos was educated at the Hellenic College of London, founded by his parents in 1980.

Pavlos's youngest siblings were born in London, Theodora in 1983 and Philippos in 1986.

He attended the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West, Montezuma, New Mexico, in the U.S., from 1984 to 1986.

After training at the British Army's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in 1987 on a three-year short-service commission.

He was promoted to lieutenant in April 1989, and relinquished his commission in April 1990.

In 1993, he completed a bachelor's degree at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

On 11 May 1994, the Greek Government under prime-minister Andreas Papandreou renounced the Greek-citizenship status of Pavlos, alongside Constantine, and the rest of the former royal family through law 2215/1994.

The law stated that Constantine's Greek-citizenship status, and accordingly his family's, could only be restored under specific conditions, including the selection of an explicit surname.

The following year, while sharing a house in Washington, DC, he and his cousin, Felipe VI of Spain, then Prince of Asturias, attended Georgetown University, where both obtained a Master of Science in Foreign Service.

After, Pavlos lived between New York City and London, working as an investment consultant.

He is co-founder of Ortelius Advisors, an activist hedge fund.

Following the death of his father on 10 January 2023, Pavlos ascended to the position of Head of the former Royal House of Greece.

He delivered Constantine's eulogy during the funeral ceremony and carried his coffin with his brothers, sons and nephews at the burial.

A rumour circulated that Pavlos intended to permanently relocate to Greece, but this was later denied by the spokesperson of the former Greek royal family, Ivi Macris, as "completely false".