“Sofia is going permanently to Greece”

Away from the spotlight, (former) Queen Sofia is looking for her next day.

In Spain she is not so popular anymore. Alienated, as the “royal” press writes in Iberian, she knows that the time for her husband’s (Juan Carlos) return to Madrid is approaching and she is looking for a way out.

In a moment when the place is burning it is something that matters little.

But it seems that Sofia will return permanently to Greece.

“Queen Sofia could spend her final years away from Spain.”

Although discreet, Irene and Sophia came to Greece one day in late August to visit their family after the death of their brother Constantine. They spent a day in Porto Heli.

The visit to Greece, to the house where her brother Konstantinos lived since 2013, is another proof of what she wants to do. The mansion, located in the area of ​​Argolis, Peloponnese, is a beautiful house overlooking the Aegean Sea and the heavenly Porto Heli.

It was a private trip. It is a quick, symbolic and “secret” journey.

She wanted to be close to Anna Maria’s sister-in-law. She basically wanted to be away from Madrid where she feels unwanted.

Sofia has two clear destinations in mind. She always spent her free time between Greece and London. Her brother, “Constantine of Greece”, lived in the UK with his family almost until the day of his death. He visited him several times and stayed for several weeks.

Now that her sister-in-law is alone, she would consider returning to her native Greece with her family. It looks perfect.

In fact, on more than one occasion, the 85-year-old Sofia has revealed that she would like to spend her last years in Greece and when she dies to be cremated and her ashes to be thrown into her beloved Aegean Sea”, reports media such as elconfidencial and elnacional in Spain.

So in Greece, 61 years later.

It was, “on February 19, 1962, when the then Minister of Finance Spyros Theotokis submitted a bill to the Parliament by which a dowry of 9,000,000 Drach (300,000 dollars at the time) was given to Sofia, which was exempt from all taxation and could be converted into foreign currency.

It was for her dowry for the marriage to Juan Carlos.

Sophia’s dowry amounted to 9 million drachmas. The endowment was the reason for the Palace’s relations with the political world to cool even more. The slogan “Dowry to Education, not to Sophia” was heard in the student mobilizations, at the time when the government of Konstantinou Karamanlis endowed Sophia with 30,000 golden pounds, while at the same time stubbornly denying any increase in spending on education…”