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Tatoi, located 27 km from the city center of Athens, was the summer palace and 10,000 acre estate of the former Greek Royal Family, and the birthplace of King George II of Greece. The area is a densely wooded southeast-facing slope of Mount Parnitha, and its ancient and current official name is Dekelea. ==Development of the Estate and ownership disputes== King George I of the Hellenes obtained the estate during the 1870s purchasing it with private funds he had brought from Denmark. In 1916, during World War I, the house was burned down, possibly at the instigation of the Greek secret police; Queen Sophia being a sister of the Kaiser, the Greek royal family was suspected of being pro-German.〔("Lady Katherine Brandram," ''The Daily Telegraph'' ), 4 October 2007, accessed 8 March 2013.〕 (See National Schism). In the 1920s most of the estate was stolen from its owners, but in 1936 it was returned to King George II. During the Second World War, when King George II was in exile and Greeks suffered considerable hardships under German occupation, the woods at Tatoi were chopped down for fuel and corpses were buried in shallow graves. King George II regained possession of the estate in 1946. It passed down as private property to King Constantine until after the referendum of 1973 when it was forcibly requisitioned.〔(Tatoi Palace ), website of Parnitha National Park.〕 King Constantine took the matter to the European Court of Human Rights who ruled in his favour. They were not able to force the return of the estate, but they were able to legally force the government to pay compensation in lieu. This amounted to only one per cent of its real worth. Trying to embarrass the former King, the government paid him money from the Greek Natural Disasters fund trying to embarrass Constantine by claiming by paying out money to him he was harming the Greek people in need. Constantine outwitted the government by setting up the Anna Marie Foundation to provide grants to needy Greeks in time of hardship caused by natural disasters. The fund is named after Queen Anne-Marie. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tatoi Palace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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