King Paul

Paul
King Paul during his reign
King of the Hellenes
Reign	1 April 1947 – 6 March 1964
Predecessor	George II
Successor	Constantine II
Prime Ministers	See list Dimitrios Maximos Konstantinos Tsaldaris Themistoklis Sofoulis Alexandros Diomidis Ioannis Theotokis Sophoklis Venizelos Nikolaos Plastiras Dimitrios Kiousopoulos Alexander Papagos Konstantinos Karamanlis Konstantinos Georgakopoulos Konstantinos Dovas Panagiotis Pipinelis Stylianos Mavromichalis Georgios Papandreou Ioannis Paraskevopoulos
Born	(1901-12-14)14 December 1901 Tatoi Palace, Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Died	6 March 1964(1964-03-06) (aged 62) Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Burial	12 March 1964 Royal Cemetery, Tatoi Palace, Greece
Spouse	Frederica of Hanover
Issue	Queen Sofía of Spain King Constantine II of Greece Princess Irene
House	Glücksburg
Father	Constantine I of Greece
Mother	Sophia of Prussia
Signature

Styles of King Paul of the Hellenes
Reference style	His Majesty
Spoken style	Your Majesty

Paul (Greek: Παῦλος, Pávlos; 14 December 1901 – 6 March 1964) was King of Greece from 1947 until his death in 1964.

Paul was born at Tatoi Palace in Athens, the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia. He trained as an army officer at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and later at the Hellenic Military Academy in Kypseli, Athens. Paul was an army officer cadet in the Coldstream Guards and Lieutenant with the Evzones.

From 1917 to 1920, Paul lived in exile with his father, Constantine I. From 1923 to 1935, he lived in exile again in England, this time with his brother, George II. He worked briefly in an aircraft factory under an alias, and through Viscount Tredegar met and befriended notorious literary muse Denham Fouts, who later alleged an affair. However, Fouts's friend John B. L. Goodwin said Fouts often made up stories about his life, and literary critic Katherine Bucknell thought many of the tales about him were myth.

On 9 January 1938, Paul married Princess Frederica of Hanover, his first cousin once removed (a great-niece of Paul's mother Sophia), at Athens. They had three children:

During most of World War II, from 1941 to 1946, when Greece was under German occupation, Paul was with the Greek government-in-exile in London and Cairo. From Cairo, he broadcast messages to the Greek people.