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Athens, Jan 10 (EFE) .- Former King Constantino of Greece, brother of Queen Sofia of Spain, is hospitalized in Athens following testing positive for coronavirus, local media report.
The former monarch was admitted on Saturday and so far has mild symptoms.
According to the media, Constantino, who is in the covid unit of the Attikón university hospital, is fully vaccinated and his health is good.
In December Constantine II of Greece was hospitalized for pneumonia at the Hygeia private center in Athens, but managed to recover within a few days.
As it was not a matter of anything serious, no member of his family came from abroad, but he was accompanied by his wife, Queen Ana María, and his son Nicolás, who lives in Athens.
Although at first the local media spoke of a cerebral ischemia, they were later corrected and pointed out that it was a bronchoaspiration pneumonia and pulmonary edema, not caused by coronavirus, as might be assumed in the context of a pandemic.
In recent years, the ex-monarch’s health has been delicate, as he has undergone several heart interventions and a stroke in 2017, which kept him away from a series of social events.
Despite this, last October he attended the wedding of his youngest son, Philippos, with the Swiss Nina Flohr, the first royal wedding that took place in Athens following his exile in 1967, following the military coup of the Colonels and a reign that had only lasted four years.
In 1974, once democracy was restored, the Greeks definitively abolished the monarchy by referendum. Since his departure seven years earlier, Constantine lived first in Rome and then in London until his final return to Greece in 2014. EFE
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