PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation, Gregory Copley observes how King Charles charmed PM Mitsotakis of Greece at the COP28 meeting in the Gulf--- patching up the most recent incident of the long term row over possession of te Elgin Marbles of the Pa
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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1802 Parthenon
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| 0:29.3 | This is John Batcheler speaking with my colleague Gregory Coppley about King Charles III |
| 0:35.3 | his appearance at the cop 28 most significant Gregory identifies his the King's |
| 0:42.3 | meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece, Mitsutakis. |
| 0:46.7 | This has to do with the 200-year-old controversy of the Elgin Marbles in the early 19th century Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, purchased the |
| 0:57.5 | Elgin marbles that were left to ruin on the Parthenon, purchased them and shipped them to Britain, purchased them |
| 1:06.3 | from the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1:08.7 | Subsequently, the Parliament bought them from Earl of Elgin and they are at the British Museum have been for two |
| 1:15.7 | centuries. However, Greece most recently over the last 50-60 years has said very clearly they would like the Elgin |
| 1:26.2 | Marbles returned. There is now a museum I'm told in Athens for the Elgin |
| 1:32.3 | Marbles. There was not such a museum when I visited them in 1974. |
| 1:37.0 | They were in Britain and I saw them 73- 74 when I was in Scotland. |
| 1:45.0 | I visited the Parthenon that next year, summer of 74. |
| 1:50.0 | And the Parthenon was in a ruin. There was no particular attention to restoring it. |
| 1:57.0 | It was able, you were able to wander around anywhere you wanted. That's no longer the case. |
| 2:02.0 | It's now protected very clearly from |
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