Greece took its exiled king's palaces without payment, and the European Court ordered €13.7 million in compensation

Constantine II became King of the Hellenes in 1964. After a failed counter-coup against the military junta in December 1967 he left for Rome. The junta abolished the monarchy in 1973 and confiscated the royal property, including Tatoi. A 1974 referendum confirmed the republic. In 1994 a Greek law transferred the family's remaining estates, Tatoi, Polydendri and Mon Repos, to the state without compensation and required him to take a surname to hold a Greek passport^†. He refused and travelled on a Danish diplomatic passport^†. He took the case to the European Court of Human Rights, which found a violation of his property rights in November 2000 and in 2002 awarded the family about €13.7 million. Reports said Greece paid from a natural disaster fund^†. He lived in London and returned to Greece in 2013. He died in Athens in January 2023 and was buried at Tatoi, with a funeral the government declined to make a state funeral^†.