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King County executive proposes temporary funding fix to keep public health clinics open
King County public health clinics offering care to around 80,000 patients could be in danger of closing if there isn't a funding fix. On Thursday, county Executive Dow Constantine announced ...
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Constantine proposes new property tax to keep public health clinics open
King County Executive Dow Constantine will soon propose a new property tax starting next year, offering a unique plan he hopes will raise enough revenue to keep the county’s 11 public health ...
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After Constantine's uncle George II died in 1947, Paul became the new king and Constantine the crown prince. As a young man, Constantine was a competitive sailor and Olympian, winning a gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics in the Dragon class along with Odysseus Eskitzoglou and George Zaimis in the yacht Nireus.
Jan 13, 2023 · Papadopoulos argued the “revolution” would save the country and asked the king to declare martial law, which he refused to do. The three colonels left, but sent the commander of the unit that had surrounded Tatoi to stay with the king. Constantine realized his power was teetering.
- He Was Born Into A Powerful Family
- He Was An Infant Runaway
- He Was Forced Into Exile
- His Father Abandoned Him
- He Caused A Civil War
- He Became Crown Prince at Six
- He Was A Greek God
- His Cousin Caught His Eye
- He Obsessed Over Her
- His Crush Became A Bridesmaid
On June 2, 1940, Constantine came into the world as the only son of Crown Prince Paul and Princess Frederica of Greece. This immediately put him near the front of the line for the Greek throne, just after his father and the current ruler, his uncle King George III. Now, you might think this was a cushy existence, but Constantine's trouble started a...
Constantine's childhood should have beee carefree...but that didn't happen. He was born right in the middle of WWII, and the Axis powers were ramping up to try to oust his family from their royal seat. It quickly turned into a nightmare: When Constantine was just 10 months old, his family was forced to flee to Crete for their survival. It would onl...
The young Constantine may have not known it, but he spent one of the most dangerous weeks in his entire life when he was only an infant. While the family must have thought they were safe on the island, they soon found out how wrong they were.With enemies advancing, they had to flee again, this time to Egypt—just days before the Germans ran roughsho...
For the next months and years of his formative stages, Constantine lived in a state of flux as the royal family went whichever way the wind blew best. Constantine and the women in his family ended up in South Africa, but his father Prince Paul took off for the even safer haven of England. The young boy wouldn't see his daddy for three long years. T...
By 1946, WWII had wound down and Constantine and his family returned to Greece at long last. But this homecoming was a nightmare in disguise. The Greek people weren't even sure they wanteda king anymore. So, as Constantine and his family looked on, a brutal Civil War between the pro and anti-monarchists erupted all around them—with people looting t...
On April 1 1947, in the middle of this raging conflict, Constantine’s uncle King George II collapsed in the Royal Palace and never recovered. What seemed like a bad April Fool’s joke turned out to be a tragedy for the royal family...but it was also the beginning of a new era. Constantine was now the Crown Prince of Greece, and his father was king, ...
From his precarious childhood, Constantine soon grew into the picture of Greek manhood, a kind of royal Adonis. In particular, he was a master sailor, and went on to represent Greece in the Summer Olympics of 1960. Incredibly he brought the gold medal in sailing home to Greece for the first time since 1912. The crown prince was now also a national ...
Right around the time the strapping Constantine was wowing on the world stage, he went on a state visit with his parents to Denmark. While there, he met a scandalous love interest.Princess Anne-Marie was the youngest daughter of the Danish King and Queen, and besides being Constantine's third cousin, she was just 13 years old while he was 19. But a...
Even though a whole year went by, Constantine couldn’t stop thinking about his cousin. When he saw Anne-Marie again on another visit to Denmark in 1961, he could no longer inhibit himself. The 20-year-old crown prince reportedly told his parents that he was going to marry Anne-Marie as soon as he could. But before that could happen, a different wed...
In May of 1962, Constantine's sister Sofia married Prince Juan Carlos of Spain in a lavish ceremony that lacked for nothing. But Constantine got something out of it too. That's because Anne-Marie was one of the bridesmaids in the ceremony, giving him plenty of opportunity to get alone time with his crush. It must have worked a charm, because Consta...
Jan 10, 2024 · Real Royalty peels back the curtain to give a glimpse into the life of the last King of Greece. Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, an Olympic gold medalist before becoming entangled in Greece’s volatile politics in the 1960’s as king and spent decades in exile.
Aug 21, 2015 · Now, almost 50 years after he left Greece, at a moment when the eyes of the world regard the country with pity and sorrow, when wealthy Greeks have long since stashed their money in other ...
Dec 27, 2023 · Explore Constantine the Great's profound impact on Christianity—his rise to power, military conquests, conversion, and transformative role in the faith's history. Delve into the Council of Nicaea and the Edict of Milan's influence, shaping Christianity for centuries.
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Aug 27, 2024 · Ancient Rome - Christianity, Empire, Constantine: Constantine and Licinius soon disputed among themselves for the empire. Constantine attacked his adversary for the first time in 316, taking the dioceses of Pannonia and Moesia from him.
