The funeral will be intimate, no television channel or photographer can broadcast it. why? because this would violate the right to privacy. This would be terrible if ERT believed it had the right to broadcast it.
The funeral will be private, this has been said by the Greek government. In the chapel of St. Eleftherios, it will be opened at the request of the family. But to the cathedral, no.
Iris1983, You have said that there was a ban on Greek public television... This is true, Greek public television has been terrible with the royal family. It would be ridiculous, disgusting for that channel to broadcast that funeral. We have to remember that in the broadcasts of the Olympics, of all of them, Constantine being an honorary member of the Committee when the cameras focused on him, the channel cut it and avoided putting his image.
The channel has not said that it will broadcast live, the channel has said that it will only be able to record images of the interior and distribute it. This is not broadcasting live, this is recording the interior and later broadcasting images of the authorities and guests that interest the channel, sadly, it will not distribute images of Queen Anna Maria and her children from her, this is a lack of education but. .. The channel wants to control that there are no images of the family, and possibly of the coffin, with the Greek flag, and the decorations, as well as the gold olimpic medal, the channel will prevent these images from being recorded and distributed.
For this reason the channel have a monopoly on the images of St. Eleftherios. They do not want the images of the coffin of Constantine with the family banner and the Greek flag to be distributed. In addition, among the decorations and merits that will accompany the coffin, there will also be the Order of the Elephant, the Toison de Oro, the Olympic medal in Rome.... the government does not want these images to be distributed.
ERT will broadcast if the royal family will give its permission. Obviously they do due to Andreas Megos instagram! When Queen Frederica died back in 1981, her coffin was even topped with the greek crown, not just orders. I´m not sure if this government has any say in this if the royal family decides so!
Quote: "TELEVISION COVERAGE OF KING CONSTANTINE'S FUNERAL:
Inside the Cathedral of Athens and in the chapel of St. Eleftherios there will be public television coverage.
ERT will provide exclusive coverage of the funeral service in the Cathedral and the chapel. It will provide coverage on all private channels.
The procession, which will start from the Cathedral and reach Tatoi, will be covered only by the private television channels up to the entrance of Tatoi.
At the royal cemetery, due to the presence of foreign leaders and dignitaries, television coverage will again be on public television and will be given free to all private television channels."
I was wondering the same. I assume at the Spanish Embassy in Athens, but just my assumption. It’s a private event she’s attending, but still the Queen Emerita’s brother’s funeral.
Anyone knows?
I´d rather say all of them stay right now in the Hotel Grand Bretagne, which has a long history with the GRF (return banquets at state visits, Constantine and Anne-Marie had one of their pre-wedding banquets there etc. ) A couple of days I saw pictures of the family assembling there, so I guess Sophia and Irene stay there, too.
It's been 50 years since the monarchy was abolished.
I am not a royalist but like them. I will not go into politics, having read the thread though I would like to point out that it is unfair for non-Greeks and people who never lived in Greece to attack the people of Greece for not valuing the former royal family just because they're good looking and "seem nice". Monarchy was never particularly good for the country, we wish we were like the Scandinavian countries, but, historically and culturally, we're not, so that shoe (the Monarchy) never did fit.
That being said, the negative feelings were targeted to Constantine and his predecessors, those who were politically actively involved in the country's life.
Anne Marie is very well liked as is Nikolaos. Both can be seen casually in the streets of Athens. I think indifference would be the word for the rest, most Greeks don't know much about Alexia and the two younger ones and their opinion of Pavlos is affected by this wife's and daughter's Instagram jet set lifestyles.
You can't imagine how many times I've heard or read the "wish Nikolaos was the first born" these days.
Well, there are also greeks like you on this forum who expressed their disgust about the treatment of the government toward the GRF, so I guess their experiences are as valid as yours.
You claim the monarchy was "not good for Greece". Was the republic? It is not long ago the EU had to save the greek state, as a result of decades of an obvious inability of a proper economic policy, of bankruptcy and insolvency! It was not just one single misfit government back in the 80s or 90s who made Greece the "poor man of europe", but, obviously one unfit government after another over a period of decades.
Back in the 1950s and 60s, the royal family was obviously very popular. I´ve been watching hours and hours of old greek newsreels and movietones when the royal family was out and about in Greece during that period. Where ever they went, the streets were packed with hundreds, sometimes thousends of enthusiastic, devoted people, cheering everyone of them which I have rarely seen in this amount in another monarchy (may be only rivaled by the british royal family at the same period of time)! Or the devestation when King Paul died and some women even fainted on the street when they heard the sad news...
People of today seem to regard this family only from their sorry end on the hellenic throne and neglect everything before that coup and exile of the royal family. That does not mean every single greek was a monarchist. Of course not. But presidents have also their opponents, people who voted against them or would want them out of office. The dislike of today is very clearly the result of the refusal of the greek government over a period of almost 40 years, to let the GRF into their homeland and excessive negative propaganda.
