Plans to Restore Abandoned Palace of Prince Philip’s Family in Greece

The Tatoi Palace was home to the Greek Royal Family before they fled Greece in 1967. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The Tatoi Palace was home to the Greek Royal Family before they fled Greece in 1967. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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Plans to Restore Abandoned Palace of Prince Philip’s Family in Greece

The Tatoi Palace was home to the Greek Royal Family before they fled Greece in 1967. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The Tatoi Palace was home to the Greek Royal Family before they fled Greece in 1967. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

A grand palace owned by the late Prince Philip’s family has been left untouched for decades. But a £12.3million renovation of the home could finally see it restored to its original glory.

The Tatoi Palace - located on Mount Parnitha, near Athens - was the Greek royal family's home before the abolition of monarchy in 1973. King George I bought the 10,000-acre estate with private funds from Denmark in 1872 for his family to enjoy in the summertime, according to the Ground News website.

Surrounded by woods, rivers, and wildlife, the staggering complex is made up of personnel quarters, stables, beehives, and farms, as well as the main palace building. It is also the final resting place of Philip's father and King Charles's grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

A meeting between King Charles, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis last year appeared to mark the start of a new chapter. Charles visited the Palace as part of the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence.

A £12.3 million investment will reportedly see the palace revived and transformed into a museum by 2025, as part of a joint venture between Britain and Greece.

King Charles' Prince's Foundation is said to be providing advice to the Greek government on restoring the complex. Works are set to include converting King George I's stables into a museum and renovating the gardens, which house several royal tombs. It comes after a lengthy legal battle over who owned the palace was finally settled in 2002.



Pizza Delivery Monitor Alerts to Secret Israel Attack

The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)
The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)
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Pizza Delivery Monitor Alerts to Secret Israel Attack

The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)
The Pentagon is seen from the US Army Golden Knights parachute team plane ahead of their performance during the Twilight Tattoo ceremony as part of the Army’s 250th Birthday Festival in Washington, D.C., after taking off from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, June 11, 2025. (Reuters)

The timing of Israel's plan to attack Iran was top secret. But Washington pizza delivery trackers guessed something was up before the first bombs fell.

About an hour before Iranian state TV first reported loud explosions in Tehran, pizza orders around the Pentagon went through the roof, according to a viral X account claiming to offer "hot intel" on "late-night activity spikes" at the US military headquarters.

"As of 6:59 pm ET nearly all pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon have experienced a HUGE surge in activity," the account "Pentagon Pizza Report" posted on Thursday.

While far from scientific, the Pentagon pizza theory "is not something the internet just made up," The Takeout, an online site covering restaurants and food trends, noted earlier this year.

Pentagon-adjacent pizza joints also got much busier than usual during Israel's 2024 missile strike on Iran, it said, as there are "a multitude of fast-food restaurants in the Pentagon complex, but no pizza places."

Pizza deliveries to the Pentagon reportedly doubled right before the US invasion of Panama in December 1989 and surged again before Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal he was fully aware in advance of the bombing campaign, which Israel says is needed to end Iran's nuclear program. "We know what's going on."

For the rest of Americans, pepperoni pie activity was not the only way to tell something was about to happen.

Washington had already announced it was moving some diplomats and their families out of the Middle East on Wednesday.

And close to an hour before Israel unleashed its firepower on Iran, the US ambassador in Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, sent out a rather revealing X post: "At our embassy in Jerusalem and closely monitoring the situation. We will remain here all night. 'Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!'"