- Title: SWITZERLAND: FUNERAL OF GREEK SHIPPING MAGNATE STAVROS NIARCHOS
- Date: 18th April 1996
- Summary: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (APRIL 18, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV ORTHODOX CHURCH WITH FLOWER-COVERED FUNERAL CARS PARKED OUTSIDE 0.06 2. SV/CU FLOWERS COMING OUT (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SV COFFIN COMING OUT WITH PRIESTS SINGING PRAYERS 0.45 4. SLV MOURNERS WATCH AS COFFIN PLACED IN CAR 0.49 5. SV WOMAN CRYING 0.57 6. SV PRIEST BLESSING COFFIN 1.03 7. TS MOURNERS AND FUNERAL CAR 1.07 8. SV ONE OF NIARCHOS'S DAUGHTERS/ EXILED GREEK KING CONSTANTINE (2 SHOTS) 1.14 9. TS MOURNERS AND FUNERAL CAR LEAVING CHURCH 1.23 10. SV METROPOLITAN DAMASKINOS, HEAD OF GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH IN SWITZERLAND, SAYING WE HAVE LOST A GREAT GREEK (GREEK) 1.42 11. SLV FUNERAL CAR ON WAY TO CEMETERY 1.48 12. SLV COFFIN ARRIVING AT GRAVESITE 1.56 13. LV MOURNERS GATHERED AROUND GRAVESITE 1.59 14. SCU PRIEST PRAYING 2.03 15. LV/SV MOURNERS GATHERED AROUND GRAVESITE (2 SHOTS) 2.13 16. SV ELDERLY WOMAN THROWING A ROSE INTO THE GRAVE 2.17 17. SLV TOMB 2.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 3rd May 1996 13:00
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- Location: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
- Reuters ID: LVA1ZS6M4TMR2880DQ5946Q5ALTH
- Story Text: INTRO: Greece's exiled King Constantine was among the mourners at the funeral of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- A small family ceremony marked the funeral of billionaire shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos in Switzerland on Thursday (April 18).
Exiled Greek King Constantine was among some 35 mourners attending a family ceremony at the small Greek Orthodox Church in this lakeside city in western Switzerland.
Niarchos, 86, and one of the world's richest men, died in a clinic in Zurich on Monday after six weeks in intensive care.
He earned millions of dollars shipping crude oil around the world and spent much of his life competing for fame and fortune with his arch rival, the late Aristotle Onassis.
"We have lost a great Greek, a man who was the incarnation of the myth of 'Grecia Magna' (Great Greece)," said Metropolitan Damaskinos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Switzerland.
"He was one of the last great Greek financiers," he added.
After the short ceremony, a somber cortege carried his coffin to the nearby Bois-de-Vaux cemetary where Niarchos was to be laid to rest beside his third wife Eugenia, who died in 1970 of an overdose of sleeping pills. The couple had four children.
The impressive white marble tomb is 30 yards (metres) from where Tina, Eugenia's sister who had been married to Onassis, is buried with her parents Stavros and Arietta Livanos, also shipping magnates.
Tina became Niarchos' fifth wife in 1971, but also died of an overdose of sleeping pills in Paris in 1974.
Referring to Onassis, whom Niarchos battled for supremacy over the high seas, the mourner added: "They were two great men who unfortunately now have left us."
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