The king who didn’t know how he lost the throne

The first time I ever spoke with former king Constantine was shortly after the publication of my book "The Rape of Greek Democracy: The American Factor" in 1997. The phone rang and I heard a deep voice say: "Good evening. This is the king." It took me a moment to realize who it was exactly, but that call was the first of many conversations about history over the course of many years to come. The reason he had called me was a part in the book where I said that one of the key people feeding information to the American intelligence services from Athens was the US Army attache to the embassy - and one of Constantine's squash partners - Colonel Joseph Lepczyk. "Are you quite certain that he was connected to the CIA?" he asked me. "He was a very nice and polite young man, you know. We were friends and had the same hobbies, like squash, tennis and sailing," he added. I explained that I...