well, it seems nothing will make greek people thinking a bit more kindly of their past kings (
yesterday I heard another kind remark on king George I: that is was his selling a great amount of stocks in the stock market that brought greece in the arms of the IMF for the first time in 1898!
the person who told me so, and apparently heard it on TV, is an MD and seemed someone who would normally be able to remember at least a few important facts in recent greek history, such as a lost greek-turkey war. yet, when I mentioned that to me it seemed highly insignificant what the king might have done with his own stocks vs a lost war, he didn't seem to even thing about it even for a moment. to him it was certainly the king who made us go in bankrupt!
I feel so sad to see what people know and are able to understand of their own country's history(
