"The Greek former royal family was technically never stripped of their Greek citizenship, rather, they were stripped of their Greek passports and other rights associated with Greek citizenship."
That's false:
Stripps of passports +stripps rights associated with Greek citizenship= revocation of nationality.
The 1994 law that revoked the nationality of all members of the Greek Royal Family also affected Princess Irene.
She was born with a Greek nationality . In 1994, the greek goverment aproved the law that revoked the family´s nationality, she lost her nationality and became stateless. The state in which she was when the law came into effect was obliged to issue her a passport (Denmark or United Kingdom).
In 2018, she changed this passport, she applied for Spanish nationality through an exceptional procedure: a certificate of naturalization. This is a government decision, based on various circumstances, such as her statelessness of 1994, which required her to carry the passport of other country which She had not linked.
She lived in Spain since 1981, had family ties to the country, her sister had been a Queen.... All of this facilitated her obtaining nationality.
King Constantine, Queen Anne-Marie, and Princess Irene never accessed the process established by the 1994 law to acquire a NEW Greek passport AND nationality, why:
- Their old nationality were not returned; they would receive a passport dated 1974. They would be greeks from 1974.
- As children of kings, they were forced to swear to and sign something with which they did not agree: the Republic is the natural political form of Greece, and they were required to affirm that it was the only political form the Greek state could adopt.
- King Constantine, as he stated in all interviews, and as evidenced by his 2014 residency permit, never refused to accept a surname. He told the Greek government to propose a surname valid under Greek law. The government insisted it be Glücksburg, but it was not yet a valid surname in Greece. In 1996, the Greek Council of State ruled it invalid because place names could not be used as surnames in Greece. The government never proposed a valid surname to him.
And much more.
The Princes Irene has spanish passport since 2018.
She is Greek at heart, and for reasons contrary to her will she has not been able to recover her birth nationality.
We don't know her real state of health; she is in poor health, but that doesn't mean anything. We have to remember that Constantine was also in very poor health in 2021-2022 and overcame pneumonia and COVID in less than two months.
That's false:
Stripps of passports +stripps rights associated with Greek citizenship= revocation of nationality.
The 1994 law that revoked the nationality of all members of the Greek Royal Family also affected Princess Irene.
She was born with a Greek nationality . In 1994, the greek goverment aproved the law that revoked the family´s nationality, she lost her nationality and became stateless. The state in which she was when the law came into effect was obliged to issue her a passport (Denmark or United Kingdom).
In 2018, she changed this passport, she applied for Spanish nationality through an exceptional procedure: a certificate of naturalization. This is a government decision, based on various circumstances, such as her statelessness of 1994, which required her to carry the passport of other country which She had not linked.
She lived in Spain since 1981, had family ties to the country, her sister had been a Queen.... All of this facilitated her obtaining nationality.
King Constantine, Queen Anne-Marie, and Princess Irene never accessed the process established by the 1994 law to acquire a NEW Greek passport AND nationality, why:
- Their old nationality were not returned; they would receive a passport dated 1974. They would be greeks from 1974.
- As children of kings, they were forced to swear to and sign something with which they did not agree: the Republic is the natural political form of Greece, and they were required to affirm that it was the only political form the Greek state could adopt.
- King Constantine, as he stated in all interviews, and as evidenced by his 2014 residency permit, never refused to accept a surname. He told the Greek government to propose a surname valid under Greek law. The government insisted it be Glücksburg, but it was not yet a valid surname in Greece. In 1996, the Greek Council of State ruled it invalid because place names could not be used as surnames in Greece. The government never proposed a valid surname to him.
And much more.
The Princes Irene has spanish passport since 2018.
She is Greek at heart, and for reasons contrary to her will she has not been able to recover her birth nationality.
We don't know her real state of health; she is in poor health, but that doesn't mean anything. We have to remember that Constantine was also in very poor health in 2021-2022 and overcame pneumonia and COVID in less than two months.
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