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King Constantine II was forced to flee Greece with his wife, Anne Marie

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Alice Thomson

Last updated at 12:00AM, January 31 2015

King Constantine has returned from exile and sees hope in anti-austerity politics

Deep in the Greek countryside, past snowy Mount Olympus and along olive groves shrouded in mist, lives a king who has finally returned after 47 years of weary exile to find his country once more in turmoil.

His Royal Highness King Constantine II, King Con to his friends and Tino to his queen, now lives in a rented beach villa. “It’s always flooding, we have mud all over the basement,” he says.

King Constantine, the former king of the Hellenes, is the best-connected man in Europe, even if he can’t find a good plumber. His sister is the Queen of