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Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark \u2013 Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s first cousin \u2013 has died at the age of 85.<\/p>\n

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The royal was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Greek capital of Athens, it was announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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He will be buried in the capital on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Prince Michael was a renowned writer and historian under the name Michel De Gres and was the last remaining grandson of George<\/p>\n

I, with a lineage to the House of Bourbon through his mother\u2019s side of the family.<\/p>\n

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The royal was well known for his marriage to Marina Karella, for whom he renounced his right to the Greek throne to marry in 1965.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife and their two daughters, Princess Olga of Savoy-Aosta and Princess Alexandra of Greece.<\/p>\n

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Prince Michael was the only child of Prince Christopher and the royal\u2019s second wife, Princess Francoise d\u2019Oleans of France.<\/p>\n

His father died at just 51 in 1940 after suffering from a short illness before his mother died in 1953, leaving the royal an orphan by the time he was 14.<\/p>\n

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He studied political science in Paris before repatriating to Greece for military duty, where he served a term in the Hellenic Coast Guard in order to regain Greek citizenship.<\/p>\n

He was the only member of the Greek royal family to remain in the country in 1967 when the government fell to a right-wing military coup after his nephew<\/p>\n

King Constantine failed in his attempts to overthrow the junta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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