Greece’s last and former king, Constantine II, died on Tuesday aged 82, state website ERT news reported. The late king, the only son of King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece, ascended to the throne in 1964. His nine-year reign coincided with one of the most turbulent periods in the country’s political history, with a military coup on 21 April 1967 resulting in the installation of a right-wing military dictatorship, commonly known as the ‘Regime of the Colonels’. A few months later, Constantine was forced to flee Greece after leading an unsuccessful countercoup against the then military junta…