The service was officiated by the Dean of Windsor, Christopher Cocksworth, and Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain. The eulogy was delivered by King Constantine's friend Sir Nicholas Soames, who is a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill. His eulogy can be read here, while the order of service can be read here.
The service was attended by the late king's widow Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes, all her children as well as other members of the Greek royal family, and also by many representatives of royal Europe. Among the many present in the chapel were (the Greeks and the British royal and extended family listed first, then the others in alphabetic order):
Greece
- Queen Anne-Marie
- Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal
- Princess Maria-Olympia
- Prince Achileas-Andreas
- Prince Odysseas-Kimon
- Prince Aristides-Stavros
- Princess Alexia and Carlos Morales Quintana *
- Prince Nikolaos and Princess Tatiana
- Princess Theodora and Matthew Kumar
- Prince Philippos and Princess Nina
- Princess Irene
- Princess Alexandra (daughter of Prince Michael)
- Darius Mirzayantz * (son of the former)
United Kingdom
- Queen Camilla
- The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York
- Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
- The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) and Sir Tim Laurence
- Zara and Mike Tindall
- Lady Sarah and Daniel Chatto,
- The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
- The Duke of Kent
- The Earl and Countess of St. Andrews
- Lady Helen Taylor
- Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
- Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy
- James and Julia Ogilvy
- Marina Ogilvy,
- The Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven
- The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
- Lady Alexandra and Thomas Hooper
- India (Hicks) and David Flint Wood
- Amory Flint Wood (son of the former and a godchild of King Constantine).
The Prince of Wales was meant to attend, but had to cancel for "privacy reasons". According to the order of service he had been invited to do the second reading.
Austria
- Archduchess Helen *
Baden
- Margrave Bernhard and Margravine Stephanie
Bulgaria
- Prince Kyril
Denmark
- Princess Benedikte (sister-in-law of King Constantine)
Hannover
- Hereditary Prince Ernst August
Hesse
- Landgrave Donatus
Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- Princess Saskia
Jordan
- Queen Noor
- Prince Hassan and Princess Sarvath
Serbia
- Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
- Prince Gustav and Princess Carina
- Princess Alexandra, Countess of Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille and Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille
Schleswig-Holstein
- Prince Alexander *
Spain
- King Felipe
- Queen Letizia
- Queen Sophia (sister of King Constantine)
- King Juan Carlos
- Infanta Elena
- Infanta Cristina
- Juan Urdangarin y Borbón (son of the former)
Toerring-Jettenbach
- Count Hans Veit *
Others
- Princess Tatiana Radziwill
For the record, the funeral service took place on 16 January 2023 in Athens, Greece, followed by burial at the royal cemetery at Tatoi.
Sources
- The Official Website of the Royal Family of Greece
- The Official Website of the Crown Prince of Serbia
- The Royal Watcher (blog)
- Nobiliana.de, thread Memorial Service for King Constantine ll of the Hellenes
- Various X (Twitter) accounts, including Rodrigo, RoyalArjan and Rebecca English.
Updated on Wednesday 28 February 2024 at 20:45 (a few names added (marked by an asterisk) as well as Nobiliana.de and Rebecca English in the list of sources).
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