King Charles striving for 'unity' in royal family says Myers

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King Charles is reportedly making plans to restore his late father’s childhood home in Greece, Tatoi Palace, where the Greek royal family used to spend their summers until the monarchy was overthrown in 1973. Prince Philip was just one year old when his father Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was ousted by a military coup and forced into exile, taking his family with him.

The King’s grandfather is now buried in the grounds of his beloved Greek palace, after he died in 1944.

Greece’s PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with His Majesty for tea at Windsor Castle, where they discussed the restoration project with the assistance of authorities in Athens.

The ruined palace is situated in 10,000 acres of woodland 17 miles north of the Greek capital and was visited by King Charles last year to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The plan is to turn Tatoi into a museum and has been described as a “labour of love” for the King.

The Prince’s Foundation is providing expert advice to the Greek authorities on how to restore the property, using Charles’s rescue of Dumfries House, a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, as a model.

A spokesman for King Constantine, the last King of Greece, said: “They want to use it as an example of best practice.”

King Constantine was exiled for almost 40 years after his country voted to become a republic.

However he was able to keep the palace as his private property until it was confiscated by the state in 1994.

The King’s role in restoring Dumfries House will be celebrated in the ITV documentary A Royal Grand Design, which will air on Tuesday at 9pm.

The monarch tells the programme it was “an appalling risk” but one worth taking.

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He added: “I wanted to rescue the house because it is of such importance.

“I knew it was a very deprived area. I wanted to use it as a proper example of, what I’ve always believed in, heritage-led regeneration.

“If we hadn’t stepped in, somebody would have bought it and said they had a great idea, you know for golf courses and it would never have worked, so, it would have joined the list of yet more derelict country houses.”

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