The royal was announced d3ad at a hospital in the Greek capital of Athens, it was announced on Sunday.

He will be buri:ed in the capital on Thursday.
Prince Michael was a famous writer and historian under the name Michel De Gres and was the last remaining

grandson of George I, with a lineage to the House of Bourbon through his mother’s side of the family.

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. He had a happy family with his wife and their two daughters, Princess Olga of Savoy-Aosta and Princess Alexandra of Greece.
Prince Michael was the only child of Prince Christopher and the royal’s second wife, Princess Francoise d’Oleans of France.

His father di:ed at just 51 in 1940 after suffering from a short illness before his mother di:ed in 1953, leaving the royal an orphan by the time he was 14.

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