snapdragon wrote:Any anti Greek sentiment was caused by the lies the government told to join the euro. There isn’t that much of it in the U.K.
Nobody in the UK cares about the EU or the eurozone and Greece
did not lie to join the euro. That is propaganda that was used 10 years ago to justify all the anti-Greek hate in the press. The use of derivatives is a legitimate practice still being practiced by all governments and nation-states.
The British government has been anti-Greek for several decades.
Istanbul Pogrom wrote:The Greek government had appealed in 1954 to the United Nations to demand self-determination for Cyprus. Britain had a ruling mandate over the mostly ethnic Greek island, and wanted the Cyprus dispute to be resolved without being taken to the United Nations Security Council, due to fears of how the Greek and Greek Cypriot parties would portray the conflict.[13][22] To this end, the British government resolved to temper Greek demands by encouraging the Turkish government to publicly express their support for Turkish-Cypriot cause, which they estimated would ensure the issue would not reach the UN Security Council. British reports from the period made disparate assessments on the state of Greco-Turkish relations; one by the British Embassy on August 1954 stated that the relationship was of a superficial nature and that a minor source of tension, such as a hypothetical Greek destruction of Atatürk's house in Thessaloniki, would cause permanent damage; while an official of the Foreign Office said that a stern stance towards Greece would be to Turkey's benefit. MP John Strachey warned that Turkey had a large ethnic Greek minority in Istanbul as a card to play against Greece if it considered annexing an independent Cyprus against the wishes of Turkish-Cypriots.[23]
Prince Philip was born on the island of Corfu and was part of the Greek royal family, but wasn’t of Greek origin.
He always claimed to have no attachment to the country because they assassinated his grandfather and sentenced his father to death and he, along with his family, had to be rescued.
The Greek Royal Family probably has more Greek origin than the British one has British origin but that is the by and by, Philip's Royal Family was re-instated in Greece. The "Greeks" did not assassinate his grandfather
This kind of language underlines a more general anti-Greek hatred and you are also very fuzzy on the details. His father was removed from the throne by the British for being too pro-German during WW1, he was then court-marshalled for high-treason.
King George(Philip's grandfather) was elected by the Greeks, reigned for 5 decades and was the most beloved King of Greece, who refused police protection and walked around on his own, he was assassinated by a whacko who was tortured so much he jumped off a window.
Philip had been marked since his early childhood and held a grudge for his own predicament, being thrown around as an orphan. He got over it, as all mature people eventually do.
Prince Charles has pro-actively built a reputation in Greece, he has spent quite a bit of energy exploring and cultivating his links with the country.
Prince Philip placed the Greek flag everywhere one looked at his funeral. This to me is a clear message to both nations.
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