Monarchies (was The Royal Wedding and the Bank Account)

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Shaun Hately <shaun.hately at ...> wrote:
>
> On 14/04/2011 2:53 AM, justcarol67 wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't they also have income from Prince Philip's duchy of Edinburgh?
> > (I don't know about his connections with the Greek and Danish royal
> > families or even whether those families--or kingdoms--still exist.)
> 
> A couple of things I missed addressing.
> 
> Denmark still has a monarchy (one that gets almost as much public 
> attention in Australia now as our own monarchy because the Crown 
> Princess was born in Australia). Denmark is currently ruled by Queen 
> Margrethe II. The Greek Monarchy was abolished in 1973, but King 
> Constantine II never abdicated... 

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Geoff:
There are a surprising  number of monarchies in the world. In Western 
Europe alone, there are - in addition to the UK - Spain, Belgium, The
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In addition, there are the 
Principalities of Liechtenstein and Monaco and the Grand Duchy of 
Luxembourg.

1973 was the date of the official abolition of the Greek monarchy. The 
effective date was a coup in 1967. I recall visiting Greece in 1969 with 
a school group and it was still a bit of a "look over your shoulder before 
you say anything sort of set-up".