Former royal family planning politics?

The gathering of former royals and “courtiers” fueled scenarios that they are planning to launch a political party, with most interest focused on the former king's first born Pavlos, and his brother Nikolaos, who were also the recipients of most compliments from the tens of royalists that were in attendance.

The royalists constantly heaped praise on the erstwhile king's sons and urged them to do something for the fate of the country. Those gathered admonished the two brothers to form a party, citing the example of newly established The River party by journalist Stavros Theodorakis who is shown by polls to be getting 5% of prospective votes.

However, it seems unlikely that a party based on royalist sentiment has true prospects on the Greek political scene. If the former royal family believed that they could run for office they would have circulated their intentions through royalist circles. As was obvious at Tatoi, the royalists urging the ex-royals towards political action were few and getting on in years.

Rumor, however, has it that such political “visions” for a political party were hatched during the summer of 2012 when the family vacationed at Porto Heli and discussed such issues among a closed set of family friends, as well as shipowners, captains of industry, as well as ordinary people. This gave rise to speculation in the Press, that a party would be formed around fresh political faces.

The rumor of a new party was fueled by the bevy of faces attending the screening of a documentary on the life of King Paul, like former army chief Fragoulis Fragos, New Democracy deputy and spokesperson Anna-Michele Asimakopoulou, former new Democracy minister Fani Palli-Petralia, former minister Alexandros Papadogonas, prominent lawyer Alexandros Lykourezos, and former minister and former head of Drasi party Stefanos Manos.
Former PM Kostantinos Mitsotakis was also present with his daughter Alexandra, making a sensation, especially since he was also instrumental in the making of the film, and the only surviving person from that time that spoke highly of the late King Paul. Former king Constantine thanked Mr Mitsotakis noting that he was his father's last minister, and the first minister when he took over the throne.